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Cecil County’s Advantages in the Late 1920s

Posted on August 31, 2018 by admin

To attract more visitors, industry and residents to the area, the Cecil County Chamber of Commerce issued an attractive booklet touting the advantageous of the county.  The Chamber remarked “We have endeavored in the following pages to illustrate, both graphically and verbally, the advantages and facilities that have contributed to make Cecil County the prosperous and contented community that it is, and which should be of fundamental importance to the prospective settler.”  The booklet was issued around 1927.

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Around 1927, the Cecil County Chamber of Commerce issued this booklet.
All roads lead to Cecil County in the late 1920s
All roads lead to Cecil County in the late 1920s.

Click here to see the full booklet, Cecil County Maryland (this is a large file and will take a moment or two to download).

 

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