April 3 Eclipse BBC of Elkton at Athletic BBC of Philadelphia April 9 Diamond State BBC of Delaware at Eclipse BBC of Elkton April 10 Dauntless BBC of Havre de Grace at Cecil BBC of Chesapeake City April 10 Athletic BBC of Philadelphia at Cecil BBC of Chesapeake City April 17 Flemington %eshanock at Eclipse…
Valentines Weekend Program Explores Elkton’s Marriage History
If you are interested in learning about Elkton’s history as a place for quick marriages, the Historical Society of Cecil County is hosting a free lecture on Feb. 11. 2011, at 7:00 p.m. Stop in to hear historian Mike Dixon talk about when the marriage industry thrived in Elkton and the honeymoon express arrived in town everyday. …
Dr. Peter Stavrakis, a Pioneer of Emergency Medicine in Cecil County
As darkness settled on Elkton one Friday night in 1978, Union Hospital’s Emergency Department buzzed with activity. The attending doctor, Peter Stavrakis, efficiently directed care while nurses performed procedures, monitors beeped, and anxious families paced hallways. When the physician started examining a new arrival, the belligerent man struck him on the head with a metal…
Frederick Douglass Visited Port Deposit and Rising Sun in 1885
Just days before Cecil County residents celebrated the arrival of a New Year, welcoming in 1886, an aging social reformer, orator, and writer, traveled to Cecil County to lecture on “The Self-Made Man.” On his way to Rising Sun where the town’s literary society was sponsoring the program, the abolitionist leader, Frederick Douglass, who’d escaped…
Turkey Point Lighthouse
A circa 1910 postcard showing the Turkey Point Lighthouse.
Frederick Douglass, a Living History Presentation, Feb. 16 in Elkton
One of the leaders of America’s abolitionist movement, Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in Talbot County, Maryland in 1817. As a young house servant, he was taught to read and write. The brutality he experienced as a slave eventually led him to escape North and in 1845 he published his autobiography, Narrative of the…
Singerly Fire Company Members Staff the Equipment at the New Firehouse on North Street
Members of Singerly Fire Company stand alongside their apparatus at the new fire station on North Street in downtown Elkton, a few years after operations moved up the street from the originally headquarters. We’ll see if we can get some of the older members of the organizaton to identify these individuals.
Paper Americana Show Brings Over Thirty Collectibles Dealers to Elkton Jan. 29
Singerly Fire Companyu of Elkton, MD. will present its twenty-fourth annual Paper American Show on Saturday, January 29, 2011, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The show will feature over thirty dealers from several states who are offering for sale antique books, postcards, newspapers, art prints, advertising & regional collectibles, photographs, and general ephemera. Singerly Fire Hall…
Fire Apparatus From Water Witch Fire Company
Scholars Add to Understanding of County’s Past As Master’s Thesis on U.S. Colored Troops Completed & Investigation about WW-II Continues
It’s always exciting to obtain fresh perspectives and insights on the county’s past, something that is often provided when scholars take a serious look at our history. These thorough investigations, requiring months of intensive digging into original documents and a critical evaluation of the sources, are valuable as they focus on specific research questions and use…