From Cecil County Tourism Chautauqua – July 07, 08 & 09, 2012 When: 4pm – 6pm Where: Elkton United Methodist Church, Main Street, Elkton This year’s theme is the War of 1812. Each day a historical figure is portrayed by an actor/historian who will speak “in character” about their life during the War of 1812….
Cecil County’s World War II Generation Remembered in Oral History Project
From the Historical Society of Cecil County In honor of the 68th Anniversary of the D-Day invasion of Normandy during World War II, the Historical Society is making the full text of the 2005 publication “Cecil’s Soldiers: Stories from the World War II Generation” available online. With support from the Maryland Humanities Council, the Society…
Keep Up With Cecil County History on Twitter
The Historical Society of Cecil County started tweeting last week as part of an initiative to tap into a cluster of additional social media outlets. Twitter, a micro-blogging platform, allows the volunteer group to send out brief notes up to 140 characters in length at any time. This, coupled with our other new media outlets, including the web, blog,…
Archaeologist Search For War of 1812 Fort at Elk Landing
Dozens of people from the Archeological Society of Maryland were at Elk Landing on this beautiful Sunday afternoon working to dig up new clues about Fort Hollingsworth and the pre-historic period at a strip of land located at the confluence of the Big and Little Elk creeks. The former farm and Chesapeake Bay port bustled…
Archaeologist Bring New Life to Elk Landing
From the Cecil Whig A team of archaeologists and university students has brought new life to Elk Landing over the past week as they have been excavating the property in the 41st annual field session. Jim Gibb, head investigator of the war of 1812 project, Robert Wall, a professor of archaeology and physical anthropology and…
After Decades of Legal Wrangling Elkton Marriage Mill Started Grinding a Little Slower
The Elkton marrying parsons and their employers, the taxi syndicate, were miserable in the autumn of 1938. These entrepreneurs fretted that Maryland voters might halt “weddings without waiting.” The threat came just as things boomed for the cabbies, as their chief interest was the wedding business. At one company, the Rev. C. M. Cope worked…
West Nottingham honors man who fought for kidnapped girls
From Souther Chester County Weeklies The West Nottingham Historical Commission in concert with Chester County Facilities and Parks paid homage to Joseph Miller, a man who was murdered while attempting to rescue two sisters who had been kidnapped by a slave catcher in the mid-1800s. Descendants of both Miller and the two girls gathered at…
Wright’s A.M.E Has Been a Part of Elkton’s History Since the 19th century
On a spring day in the middle of May, Wright’s A.M.E. Church, an old Elkton house of worship, looks good as storm clouds break and the sun begins to shine on the sanctuary. It has been a part of Elkton’s history since the early 1880s. It was dedicated in May 1882 by Bishop Layman and…
Archeological Society of Maryland Field School Opens at Elk Landing This Weekend
Press Release — Historic Elk Landing Foundation———————- One hundred and ninety nine years ago musket and cannon fire erupted from Fort Hollingsworth at the confluence of the Big and Little Elk Creeks. That skirmish between members of the Cecil Militia and British Marines and sailors kept Elkton from being burned. The invading British and the…
Rochambeau in Elkton
Seeking out colonial-era maps of Elk Landing local archaeologist, George Reynolds, stopped by this week. The Archaeological Society of Northeastern Maryland is sponsoring a summer field school at the Landing and George is preparing for the opening talk, as he conducted the first study on that historic parcel in the early 1980s. To flush out the…