The expansion of Singerly Fire Company’s main fire station on Newark Avenue in Elkton is moving right along. At the station that has has served the community for forty years, demands on the facility have grown since 1971 so the enlarged structure will have eight fire appartus bays facing Newark Avenue. Singerly responds to fire and EMS calls out of…
Team Digitizes Centuries Old Funeral Home Records, From One of the Two Undertaking Establishments in Cherry Hill
Two Historical Society of Cecil County volunteers, Billie Todd and Evelyn Wekke, are pouring over aging business ledgers from the Grant Funeral Home of Cherry Hill. Scanning the old, yellowing pages they meticulously extract information on deaths from the undertaker’s account books, cataloging information about the people whom W. J. Grant and son buried, including names,…
Escaping a 1969 Cecil County Heat Wave
The scorching summer heat has made outdoor activities nearlyunbearable for a few days now, and people are coping with the tropical conditions in a variety of ways. Late this Saturday afternoon, families’ crowded tables at Betterton Beach, enjoying outdoor picnics while hopefully catching a cooling breeze from the Chesapeake Bay. Elsewhere people outside quickly scattered…
Dr. Koterski, Author of Book on Potters & Firebrick Makers of Cecil County, to Sign Books on Aug 5 in Elkton
Dr. James R. Koterski, the author of Potters and Firebrick Makers of Cecil County Maryland & Nearby, 1750 – 1950, will be at the Palette and Page, 120 E. Main Street, Elkton, from 5 to 8 p.m. on Aug. 5, 2011, to sign books. Click here for additional information on the Aug. 5th activities. Here is some additional information on…
Panaromic Artists Sweep Through Area Producing Maps of Elkton, Havre de Grace and Rising Sun in 1907
Bird’s Eye View maps, popular from the 1860s until about 1920, depict places as if they were viewed from above at an angle. Using direct observation and some imagination, artists working for a number of companies specializing in these panoramic products visited towns to sketch out the place. The sketches, which were sold to local…
Cecil County Public Library at the Cecil County Fair, July 22-30
July 16, 2011 — The Cecil County Public Library will have a booth at the Fair, located in the building next to the midway and carnival rides, open every weekday evening from 5-8pm, and 1-8pm on Saturdays and Sunday the 24th. All booth visitors will be able to take a free book and play a guessing…
Memorial Recalling Tragic Eastern Airlines Flight 606 Crash Outside Port Deposit Erected
Sixty-four years after Eastern Airlines Flight 605 crashed outside Port Deposit, taking 53 lives on Memorial Day 1947, a monument has been erected at the place where the plane hit a Cecil County hillside. Jeanette Nesbit Hillyer, 89, whose father was one of the first to respond to the terrible accident, arranged to have the memorial placed…
Port Deposit Town Tour Slideshow & Video
TripAdvisor™ TripWow ★ Port Deposit Town Tour Slideshow ★ to Port Deposit. Stunning free travel slideshows on TripAdvisor via Port Deposit Town Tour Slideshow & Video.
First Emergency Responder to Arrive on Scene of 1963 Plane Crash Recalls Tragic Night
Lt. Don Hash (Retired) of the Maryland State Police, the first emergency responder to arrive at the plane crash site east of Elkton on December 8, 1963, recently talked to the Singerly Fire Company Museum about his recollections of that dark night in a Maryland cornfield where 81-people perished. On that stormy December Sunday evening…
Stories of Dramatic Times In Cecil During Revolution & War of 1812 Were Told in Downtown Elkton by Interesting People From Our Past
Early this morning in downtown Elkton, a bunch of characters were hanging out in the vicinity of the Historical Society. The buzz around the Main Street crowd was unusual for a Saturday, and when passersby took a closer look at this gaggle curiosity was peaked even more. The eccentrics were dressed as if they stepped out of…