“Standing in the Schoolhouse Door: The Desegregation of Public Schools in Cecil County, Maryland – 1954-1965” is a Washington College thesis (2013) by Kyle Dixon, B.A.. The thesis analyzes social and political factors, which led to the desegreation of public schools in Cecil County, MD. Click this link to review a longer article about school…
Cecil County’s First Newspaper
The first printing press to ever rest on Cecil County soil came here 195 years ago. In that era, long before steam locomotives chugged along on rails or telegraphs tapped out lightning-fast messages, a young newspaper editor from Lancaster, Pa., named John McCord arrived in Elkton. He was also a printer since in those days…
Remembering Triumph’s Home Front Defense Workers Who Made the Ultimate Sacrifice
As this Memorial Day — the time to honor those who died in the military while serving our country — draws to a close, we also want to remember another group who made the ultimate sacrifice defending our nation. These were Women Ordnance Workers (WOW) and men employed at Triumph and other defense jobs in…
The Day the Railroad Bridge Crashed into the Susquehanna River
After four CSX freight cars plummeted off the Susquehanna River Bridge Friday night during the late winter nor’easter, we had questions about whether anything similar had ever happened there before. At least one similar accident occurred. On September 23, 1908, the railroad bridge crashed into the river. The Baltimore Sun said: “With a splitting roar,…
Koterski Talks About An Early Pottery at Saint Mary Anne’s
March Lecture Sponsored by the Archeological Society of the Northern ChesapeakeDate: Wednesday, March 14, 2018Time: Light refreshments at 6:30 pm, program at 7:00 pm, followed by a shortChapter meeting.Location: Historical Society of Cecil County, 135 E. Main St., Elkton, MD. Program: “An Early Pottery at Saint Mary Anne’s – A Cemetery Discovery of No Grave…
Cecil County’s First Newspaper
Cecil County’s first newspaper, the Elkton Press.
Muller Led Cecil County Emergency Services into the Modern Era
Frank Muller retired as the county’s director of Cecil County Emergency Services in October 2007, after spending over forty years responding to car wrecks, heart attacks, barroom fights, fires, chemical accidents, and almost any type of emergency you might name. He got his start in a line of work that often stretched from dawn to…
Senator Robert Kennedy’s Funeral Train Passes Elkton
Late in the afternoon of June 8, 1968, the long-delayed funeral train carrying the body of Senator Robert F. Kennedy to Washington passed through Elkton. It was around 6 p.m. and the train was about 4-hours late. Larry Beers, a teenager, took his 8-mm home movie camera and captured the scene that hot June afternoon…
Cecil County History
On a daily basis, social media networks distribute a hefty volume of content, creating a public square that is jammed with posts. This crowded universe suggests that additional approaches are needed to help readers quickly find subjects of interest and we’ve been contemplating the best approach to this opportunity. After experimenting with alternatives we’ve decided…
A 1927 Accident Takes Life of Harford County Fire Chief
When Maryland Public Television started working on the Conowingo Dam documentary a research question came up about workers killed on the project. Since this matter hadn’t been investigated previously, a registry was compiled containing information I was able locate through archival records. On Labor Day 2015, I wrote a blog post identifying twelve fallen workers,…