Baseball Fan, Crank or Fiend?
Spring is here and baseball season is upon us! Which always brings to mind Ted Sullivan, right?!? I mean who doesn’t remember Timothy Paul “Ted” Sullivan? Truth be told, I […]
What’s in a name?!?
Day after day we drive these streets, give directions, home addresses, note landmarks, and so on and so on…often without a thought as to what’s in a name? Well fasten […]
A Pug, a Shark & a Railway…. Oh My!
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ You may recall (or not) from an earlier article that smallpox possibly had a hand in the failure of the original company, The Washington & Chesapeake Beach Railway Company […]
March 31, a sad day in Chesapeake Beach History…
March 31, 1923, marks the 100th anniversary of the day The Belvedere Hotel was destroyed by fire. The hotel was situated on a hilltop that overlooked the Bay in Chesapeake […]
A Church & a Racetrack Unite!
St. Anthony’s Roman Catholic Church in North Beach, MD has a fantastic back story! Here is where I found the most unlikely answer to a question I had been wondering […]
Timing is Everything… when building a Railway!
Did smallpox have anything to do with the failure of the first company to have the idea of building a railroad to Chesapeake Beach? Well… maybe. But first, a quick […]
Calvert ‘King of the Bootleggers’!
Today, January 17, 2023, is National Bootlegger’s Day! And as it so happens, the “CALVERT ‘KING OF THE BOOTLEGGERS’ ” was arrested in 1932 near his home in Chesapeake Beach, […]
Candy vs. Alcohol … during WWI
Lowney’s chocolates, a favorite and well-known chocolate of choice in the early 1900s, were sold in the Souvenir Shop on the Chesapeake Beach boardwalk! Here is fun little fact: Lowney’s […]
The Club House (aka The Belvedere), the racetrack and REALITY!
The MEMBERS-ONLY Club House (later named The Belvedere) was built hand-in-hand with the racetrack. Newspapers across the country stressed their connection. The Club House was described as a “Swiss Chalet”… […]