Tolchester Beach, Maryland

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Tolchester Beach was a popular resort established in 1877, located on the eastern shore of the Chesapeake Bay in Kent County, Maryland.[1][2][3] It was located just north of Rock Hall, Maryland, and closed in 1962.[4]

In the late 1800s, Tolchester Beach was a popular tourist destination for residents of Baltimore and other areas served by the Chesapeake Bay steamships.[2] The beach had hotels, restaurants, and games, picnics, horse-racing and an amusement park with a merry-go-round and a roller coaster.[2]

Some of the steamships that served Tolchester Beach were the Emma Giles[5] and Louise.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Tolchester Beach". Maryland Online Encyclopedia. 2005. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Cowan, Katherine (November 1999). "Tolchester Photograph Collection, ca. 1883-1925". Prints and Photographs Division of the Maryland Historical Society Library. 
  3. ↑ Milt Diggins. "Cecil County, The Tolchester Beach Improvement Company, and the end of the Steamboat Era". 
  4. ↑ "Tolchester Beach Revisited Museum". The Mainstay. 2007. 
  5. ↑ Keith, Robert C. (2005). Baltimore Harbor: A Pictorial History. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 60–61. ISBN 978-0801879807. 

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‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

Coordinates: 39°12′51″N 76°14′41″W / 39.21417°N 76.24472°W / 39.21417; -76.24472


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