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• West Nottingham honors man who fought for kidnapped girls
• Wright’s A.M.E Has Been a Part of Elkton History Since the 19th century
• Archeological Society of Maryland Field School Opens at Elk Landing This Weekend
• Old Maps Showing Elkton and Elk Landing During the Revolutionary War Help Archaeologist
• Historical Society of Delaware Tour Explores C & D Canal History on June 16
• The Samples Provide a Peek Into The Past — A Time When the Enemy Was On Our Shore During the War of 1812
• Cecilton Elects First Town Board in 1864
• As Coins Disappear During Civil War in Cecil County, Port Deposit and Elkton Issue Paper Money
• Clouds Break For Lunch Over Elkton
• Revisiting a Historic Moment As Colonial Spirit Hit Elkton for 200th Anniversary
• Elkton Prepares to Honor Its Roots For Its 225th Anniverary
• Reception Opening Important New Civil War Collection and Honoring the Donor, Dr. McCall, Takes Place June 2
• North East Police Pioneer Law Enforcement’s Involvement in Ambulance Service
• Let You Fingers Do The Walking Through The Phone Book When Doing Research
• Singerly Adds “Heavy-Duty Pumper” to Department in 1952
• Sixty Year Old Fire Truck Returns to Singerly
• Exploring the Past That’s All Around Us in Cecil County – Looking for Relics Along the Octoraro Line
• Defenders Day Returns to Elk Landing on April 28 as Judge Sample Reminisces About British Attack on Elkton
• Police Kept Busy Fielding Calls About Mysterious Objects in Night Sky
• Port Deposit Steam Engine Rushed to Havre de Grace To Help Save City From Conflagration
• Elkton Eclipse Base Ball Team Opens 2012 Season at Terrapin Station Winery on April 22
• Talk Explores the Era When the Honeymoon Express Rolled Into Elkton, Bringing Cupid’s Wedding Business To Town
• Underground Railroad Conference to Feature Talk by Local Historian About Elkton Slave Catcher
• Elk Landing Opens 62-Acres of Park Land to Public
• Opening a Window on History: A Letter Provides a Personal Glimpse on the War of 1812
• As Gas Price Hits All Time High in Cecil County, 1970s Energy Crisis Recalled
• A Night on the Town: Upper Bay Museum Honors Its Founders on May 19
• Let the Research Begin — 1940 Census Available on the Web at a Number of Sites
• An Aged Citizen From Centuries Ago Still Promoting Cecil County Tourism & Heritage
• Lockup Helped Keep Wayward Types on Straight and Narrow in North East
• Journeys: Telling Your Story – A Workshop on Oral History, Saturday, March 31
• Cooking on the Bay: Now and 300 Years Ago, a Program at the LIbrary March 31
• The Civil War Invades Perryville Library on April 14
• It Wasn’t Always Free to Cross the Susquehanna at Conowingo
• Hear About “Return to Hollingsworth Farm” In a Talk on Archaeology Wednesday
• Old 18th Century Buildings Prepare to Welcome Yet Another Spring
• ERICA JESONIS AND CECIL COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY RECEIVES PRESTIGIOUS “MOVER AND SHAKER” AWARD FROM LIBRARY JOURNAL MAGAZINE
• County’s First Aerial Truck Put in Service in 1966
• Historical Society Announces Addition of Civil War and 19th Century Manuscripts to Research LIbrary
• Archaeological Society of Northern Chesapeake to Sponsor Summer Field School in Cecil County
• Rachel Parker Kidnapping Case to be Examined in Chester County Parks Program
• Video Documentarian Examines Historical Society and the County’s Heritage
• A Pioneering Aviator from Cecil County Served With the Tuskegee Airmen
• Roses at the Door Outside Cecilton in 1966
• It’s Over and Out and 10-22 on Codes Found in Piece of Ephemera from Weaver’s Liquors.
• Board Struggles to Save Bainbridge Museum
• The McCool Armory, one of Elkton’s Historic Properties, Declared Surplus
• Digging Into the Past Before the Interstate Moved In
• Smithsonian’s Journey Stories Brought to Cecil County by Arts Council, Library and Historical Society
• Historical Society Announces Online Finding Aid For Judge McCauley Diaries, a 47-Year Chronicle of 19th Century Cecil County
• High School Students Perform Scenes From the War of 1812
• When the Honeymoon Express Rolled Into Elkton, Bringing Cupid’s Wedding Business To Town
• Fire Station Addition Illuminates Damp Winter Night
• Frenchtown: April 29, 1813 – Cecil County
• Watching the Night And Waiting for the Dawn in Elkton
• Grand Day for Elkton, When 2nd Pumper Doubles Size of Firefighting Force
• Relic From 1818 Proudly Displayed at Fire Company Museum in Elkton
• Old Photograph, Postcard, Manuscript and Collectibles Dealers Swarmed Toward Elkton This Afternoon
• Preserving Your Family Heirlooms at the Perryville Library — Jan. 31st.
• To Keep Up With Local History Like the Cecil Co. Historical Society on Facebook
• A Snowy Day at the County Cemetery and Poorhouse
• Research: It’s a New Ball Game as Free Websites Provide Digital Copies of Wills, Maps, Newspapers, and Photos
• Snow Days of Yesteryear: Horse Pulled Plow Struggles to Clear Elkton’s Main Street
• New Arcadia Title Tells History of Perryville Through Photographs
• Library Hosts Lecture on Cecil County African Americans in the Civil War
• The Civil War in Our Backyard – Programs at the Library in February
• Video Documentarian Examines the Work of Cecil County Waterman
• Sylmar Takes Its Name From Two States
• The Four Corners in Cecilton in the Late 1930s
• Waiting for the Snow to Fly
• The Civil War In Our Backyard
• 2012 Paper Americana Show in Elkton Features Over 30 Collectibles Dealers
• The Traveler’s B & O Christmas Tree, a Holiday Tradition
• Rising Sun Greets the Automobile Age in Cecil County
• A Thanksgiving Greeting From 1907
• Elkton’s Old Fire Bell Tapped Out Many Alarms
• Singerly Fire Company’s Ahrens Fox & Hale Pumpers
• Historical Society Fills Vital Role as County Archives
• Mother Nature Plays a Little Trick on Cecil County as Winter Arrives Early
• Free Antique Appraisals Featured at CCPL Friends Annual Meeting
• Cecil County Public Library Celebrates National Friends of Libraries Week Oct. 16-22
• Northeastern Maryland Archaeological Society Talk Puts Spotlight on 30 Years of Digs at Elk Landing
• Archeological Society of Northern Chesapeake to Hear about Findings From Archeological Investigations at Elk Landing
• North East Faces the “Fire Fiend” in 1911
• North East Organizes a Fire Department in 1911
• The Old Cecil County Courthouse on an Early Spring Evening in 2011
• Singerly Fire Company to Hold Fire & Police Badge and Patch Show Sept. 24, 2011
• Maryland Historical Trust Representative Works With Elkton Board to Untangle Matters Related to Historic District
• Dr. Davy McCall to Speak at Historical Society’s Annual Meeting Oct. 17, 2011
• Cecil Whig in Search of the ‘Swiss Cheese’ Historic District
• Historic District Committee Meeting With Commissioners Got Off Track as all They Heard was Dissolve It, Other Members Say
• After Local Board Makes Unusual Recommendation to Eliminate Historic District, Commissioners Ask to Meet With State Professionals
• Treasures of Charlestown Subject of Program at North East Library on Sept. 27
• Bridge From Cecil’s Past No Stranger to Hurricanes; Weathers Irene
• Cecil Whig: Battle Brews Over History in Elkton
• State Planner in Response to Local HARC Committee Comments: Preservation Regulations Aren’t Strict Rules Dictating Minutia
• On a Rain-Swept Sunday, Memorial to Victims of Eastern Airlines Plane Crash Near Port Deposit Dedicated
• Tome Student Helps Society Make Expanded Yearbook Collection Available to Patrons
• Elkton Historic District Commission Advises Town the Regulations are too Restrictive for the County Seat
• At Fire Station That’s Served Elkton for 40-Years Expansion is Underway
• Team Digitizes Centuries Old Funeral Home Records, From One of the Two Undertaking Establishments in Cherry Hill
• Escaping a 1969 Cecil County Heat Wave
• Dr. Koterski, Author of Book on Potters & Firebrick Makers of Cecil County, to Sign Books on Aug 5 in Elkton
• Panaromic Artists Sweep Through Area Producing Maps of Elkton, Havre de Grace and Rising Sun in 1907
• Cecil County Public Library at the Cecil County Fair, July 22-30
• Memorial Recalling Tragic Eastern Airlines Plane Crash Outside Port Deposit Erected
• Port Deposit Town Tour Slideshow & Video
• First Emergency Responder to Arrive on Scene of 1963 Plane Crash Recalls Tragic Night
• Stories of Dramatic Times In Cecil During Revolution & War of 1812 Were Told in Downtown Elkton by Interesting People From Our Past
• Rachel Parker Kidnapping Case, which Involved Slave Catcher From Elkton, to be noted with Marker in West Nottingham Township; Commission Searching for Relatives in Preparation for Dedication
• On the Day When the British Came to Loot Elkton, A Slave Leads the Invaders into an Ambush
• Middletown Transcript: Colonial picnic highlights historic Mount Harmon Plantation
• As Old Main Street Building is Demolished, Interesting Architectural Elements from Earlier Era Revealed
• Havre de Grace Patch: Lost To Time: What We Can Learn From Bainbridge
• Civil War Soldiers Grave Marked by Union Tombstone Nearly 90 Years After He Died
• CECIL COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY NOMINATED FOR 2011 LIBRARY BLOG AWARD
• Chautauqua 2011: A House Divided, the American Civil War Coming to North East July 8 – 10
• On Grounds of Poorhouse, Cecil County Insane Asylum Opens in 1887
• Star Spangled 200 to be Commemorated in the Upper Bay – Website Promotes People, Places & Events of 1812 War
• Hear about History of Port Deposit at Perryville Library on May 5, 2011
• Cecil County Recognized for Commitment to Historic Preservation Following Revitalization of Gilpin’s Falls Covered Bridge
• Thirty-Two Years Ago This Weekend Cecil County Put On Alert to Receive Thousands If Mass Evacauation Was Needed in Pennsylvania
• Cecil County Public Library Friends Host Local Authors April 14
• Online Catalog of Cecil County Tombstones Expand to Over 30,000 Entries
• New Book: Potters and Firebrick Makers of Cecil County Maryland & Nearby, 1750 – 1950,
• Remembering Cecil County’s Fallen Firefighters
• Firemen’s Carnivals Were Popular Events in Cecil County
• USNTC, Bainbridge Fire Department
• A Surviving African-American One-Room Schoolhouse
• First Lines: How to Get Started Writing Your Story (and Publishing Your Work); Library Workshop, March 16
• How Elkton Became the Elopement Capital of the East
• Black History Month Speaker at Cecil College Talks About Cecil Co. “United States Colored Troops” Feb. 23
• From Chiefs to Bailiffs: Searching for Photos of Earlier Leaders of the Elkton Police Department
• Sheriff’s Office Takes Step Forward in 20th Century Law Enforcement by Providing Patrol Cars
• Some Inspiring Preaching & Moving Service at Wright’s AME on Rev. King’s Birthday
• The Police Beat in Rising Sun in 1900
• One of Elkton’s Old Congregations, Providence United Methodist Church
• The Wheels of Justice: Elkton Police Mount Bicycle Patrol in 1900
• From HDGHistory: King of Kings: Engravings From Lost Voices
• Elkton Vintage Base Ball Club Announces 2011 Schedule
• Valentines Weekend Program Explores Elkton’s Marriage History
• Dr. Peter Stavrakis, a Pioneer of Emergency Medicine in Cecil County
• Frederick Douglass Visited Port Deposit and Rising Sun in 1885
• Turkey Point Lighthouse
• Frederick Douglass, a Living History Presentation, Feb. 16 in Elkton
• Singerly Fire Company Members Staff the Equipment at the New Firehouse on North Street
• Paper Americana Show Brings Over Thirty Collectibles Dealers to Elkton Jan. 29
• 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
• ABC 2: Great grandson rewrites Civil War wrong; government to issue correct tombstone
• New Title Beautifully Captures History of Rising Sun for 150th Anniversary
• Lots of Holiday Activities in Cecil County This Weekend
• Author of War of 1812 Title Talks About County During the War While Another Title is Underway
• Research Tip: Recalling the Names of Long-Ago Telephone Exchanges, While Using Old Phone Books
• 47 Years Later, Remembering Nov. 22, 1963 in Cecil County
• Blue Moon Rising Over Cecil County
• One-Room Schoolhouse Near Sylmar Razed
• Genealogy Detectives: Tracing Your Family Roots
• The Mason-Dixon Line: The Stories behind a Geographic Boundary, at Rising Sun Library Nov. 13
• Lantern Tour of Historic Port Deposit, Oct. 30th
• Book Discussion at Rising Sun Library, Oct 13 — “Recollections of a Veteran or Four Years in Dixie” Published by Local Author 30 Years After the War
• Research Tip: When Digging Into the Past, Don’t Forget to Check Out Newspapers in Middletown, Havre de Grace & Oxford
• Mount Harmon Revolutionary War Reenactment Festival, Oct 23 & 24
• Cecil County Lore in Local Author’s Newest Book
• Harvesting the Rich Soil of Cecil County
• Maryland Life: Spectral Sightings at the Cecil County Jail: Ghosts of Prisoners Past
• Historical Sociey Society Focuses on War of 1812 For Annual Dinner
• Port Chamber of Commerce Brings Smokin’ on the River Port-B-Q to Town Oct. 16th
• A Look at the Center of Rising Sun About 1911
• Port-Palooza: Fun, Music & Food in Historic Port Deposit on Sept. 18th
• Cozy Coffee Cafe With Excellent Foods Opens in Port Deposit
• Saving the Sounds of Earlier Times
• Researchers Looked Into History Submered in the Elk River
• Walkin’ the Line: a Journey Along the Mason-Dixon — Sept. 20 at the Chesapeake City Library.
• Elkton Eclipse Base Ball Team Wins 4th Straight State Title
• Rising Sun 150th Anniversay Committee Announces Fall Schedule of Events
• Recalling the Octoraro Branch Railroad — Sept. 29 at Rising Sun Library
• Old One-Room Schoolhouses Disappearing Fast
• “At the Head of the Bay,” Sought After Title on Cultural & Architectural History of Cecil County Available from Historical Society
• Johns Hopkins Press Author, Dr. Eshelman, to Speak on War of 1812 in MD at Annual Historical Society Meeting, Oct. 18
• Zoe Mulford’s Song about the “Lady of the Highways”
• The War of 1812 on the Upper Chesapeake at Elkton Library, Sept. 15
• Saving Family Treasures, a Program at the North East Library, Sept. 18
• Enjoying the Water at Holloway Beach in Charlestown
• Buffington’s Store in Rising Store About 1912
• Rising Sun 150th Celebration Anniversary Dinner & Dance on Oct. 2
• Our Lady of the Highway Watches Over Stretch of Interstate Where Massive Pileup Occurred
• Rising Sun 150th Anniversary Fashion Show, Sept. 25
• Capello’s Bakery Has Tempting Homemade Products in Port Deposit
• Restoration of Historic Calvert Area Dwelling, Hebron’s Gift
• Gilpin’s Falls Covered Bridge Dedication Slide Show
• East Main Street Elkton From a Postcard About 1912
• East Main Street Elkton about 1912
• Where did all Those Cannonballs Come From: the Treasures in the Soil Around Elkton
• State Provides Grant to Restore Rodgers Tavern
• Cecil’s Bridge to the Past, Gilpin’s Fall’s Dedicated – a Preservation Success Story
• Cecilton’s Loss: A Unique Part of its Past as Historic Properties Make Way for Convenience Store
• All Aboard the Middletown & Cecilton Trolley
• Independence Day Weekend at Historic Elk Landing
• Old Bohemia House, Historic Cecil Co. Property, Available Through MD Resident Curatorship Program
• Priceless Colonial Documents Return Home, After Lengthy Stay in New York
• Popular Chautauqua 2010 Brings Historical Figures to Perryville in July
• The Potters Field in Childs: The Final Resting Place for Paupers
• Rehabilitation of the Savin-Conrey House in Chesapeake City Wins Award
• Saving Family Treasures, a Program at the Chesapeake City Library on June 15.
• Making Sure the History of the Rising Sun Little League Is Remembered: a New Book
• Archeology Day at Historic Elk Landing – June 5th
• Dan Rodricks Midday on WYPR Highlights Cecil County
• Delmarva Legends & Lore at Perryville Library May 20th
• Lots of People Were Talking Old Time Baseball on Main Street This Evening
• Relax and Enjoy May Day at Elk Landing
• Laidback Leisure, and Learning at Elk Landing in 2010!
• Relics of What Came Before: Old Family Burial Grounds
• Rising Sun 150th Celebration Ribbon-Cutting Video from YouTube.
• Rising Sun Kicks-Off 150th Anniversary With Ribbon-Cutting
• Elkton Eclipse Vintage Baseball Schedule for 2010
• Cecil’s Field of Dreams Coming to Historical Society
• Lost Cecil County Village: Bethel or Pivot Bridge
• Trail of H. Rap Brown Creates Tension Across Maryland in 1970
• Cecil’s Field of Dreams, an Exhibit Showcasing History of Baseball in County Opens April 30th.
• President of Sears Helps Build Modern School for African-American Students in Elkton in 1920s
• A History of Shopping Through the Sears Catalog – A Library Program, March 17
• Hiding the Bank’s Money During the British Raid on Elk River During War of 1812
• Pan American Airways Crash Worst Disaster in Cecil County History
• Cecil County’s Bridges to the Past, Our Covered Bridges
• Cecil County’s Bridge to the Past: Ready for a Run Through the 21st Century
• Remembering Martin Luther King Jr. at Wrights AME Church With Rev. Brian Thomas
• Joseph George Johnson Built Covered Bridge That Stood Test of Time
• Want to Buy a Historic Cecil Co. Bridge? – WBAL Radio
• 23rd Paper Americana Shows Returns to Elkton on Jan 30.
• 1st Annual Museums of the Upper Bay Conference – Jan 23-24
• New Chesapeake City Virtual Exhibit Opens on Web
• Maryland’s Upper Bay Salutes the new Star-Spangled Banner NHT with Cake and Holiday Cheer
• The Civil War … Three Years With the Big Elk Rangers, a Living History Program on Jan. 26
• Getting Started With Genealogy a Workshop on Jan. 16
• StoryCorps: National Social History Project Records Ordinary People Telling Their Stories
• On the Day When the British Came to Loot Elkton, A Slave Leads the Invaders into an Ambush
• The Traveler’s B & O Christmas Tree, a Holiday Tradition
• Valentines Weekend Program Explores Elkton’s Marriage History
• The Elkton Police Catch Their Man
• Cecil’s Past for Ms. Litzenberg’s Class at Elk Neck Elementary
• This Weatherman Knew the Highs & Lows in Cecil County
• Nov 7 at Elkton Library: The 101st Screaming Eagles, a Walk With Heroes
• Cecil County Chapter of NAACP Organized: 1962
• Cecil County Chapter of NAACP Observes 100th Anniversary of the National Civil Rights Organization
• Meeting To Explore John Smith Heritage Trail in Havre de Grace Thursday
• Library Friends Host “Shipwrecks on the Chesapeake” Program
• An Old One Room Schoolhouse Opened to the Public
• The Hangman’s Gallows in Cecil County
• Cecil Observer: Q&A with ‘Cecil Soldiers’ author Jenifer Grindle Dolde
• Robert F. Kennedy’s Funeral Train
• Book Features Details About Powerful World War II Era Bainbridge Naval Training Center Football Team
• The Almighty Oyster: Food, Fighting & Sensibility, A Program at Perryville Library, Oct. 14
• Remembering Crystal Beach This Labor Day Weekend
• Remembering Dr. James L Johnson: He Worked to End the Racially Segregated Healthcare System
• Old Jail Managed to Outlive Its Usefulness in Just 128 Years
• Last Sailor at Bainbridge Says Goodbye to Friends at the Winchester Bar
• George Washington Carver Jr. League Baseball Team
• Another New Local Title Focuses on Football at Bainbridge Naval Training Center during World War II
• Cecil County Village of Sylmar Examined in New Title, Edge Effects
• Officer’s 1910 Sacrifice Being Remembered by Philadelphia PD; Searching for Relatives of the Rowlandsville Man
• Chautauqua 2009 Coming to Cecil County July 10, 11 & 12
• Cecil Observer — Elkton jet crash of 1963 in the news again due to missing plane
• On Memorial Day 1947, Eastern Airlines Flight 605 Crashed Near Port Deposit
• The Polk Directory: The Village of Pilot in 1908-09
• Video on Robert F. Kennedy’s Funeral Train
• Cecil Observer: Spanish Flu Epedemic Killed More Than 150 in Cecil County
• Witnesses to Robert Kennedy Funeral Train Sought by Delaware County Newspapers
• Bringing the Train on Down the Line in Western Cecil
• Former Cecil County Author Jack D. Hunter will be remembered for classic war Novel, “The Blue Max”
• Bringing the Train On Down the Line in Western Cecil
• Looking Back on Main Street: The Decades Bring Changes
• Cecil County Covered Bridges
• Newest Cecil County Site Welcomed to the Blogosphere
• Elkton’s Second Depot Opened in 1855
• Elkton Gets a New Railroad Station
• “Mt. Zoar Colored School” Conowingo
• The Obama Express Rolls Through Elkton
• Many Presidents Rode the Rails
• Hundreds Turn Out to Greet President-Elect Barack Obama as Whistle Stop Express Rolls Through.
• Remembering Charles Caldwell, the Principal of George Washington Carver School
• Remembering U.S. Colored Troops From Cecil County
• Route to Inauguration Will be Abe Lincoln’s
• African-American School Houses in Cecil County
• Inaugural Train to Pass Through Cecil
• Dec 7, 1941 – Cecil Goes on a War Footing & Bainbridge Develops
• The Baltimore & Ohio Holly Tree
• Remembering President Kennedy in Cecil County in Nov. 1963
• Remembering Jim Cheeseman, Cecil Whig Photographer
• Cecil’s Bridge to the Past: Federal Dollars Come Home to Help With Gilpin Falls Covered Bridge
• Hill’s Jitney Service – Chesapeake City
• Bernard Purdie, Hometown Drummer
• Thomas Mogle, Cecil County Sheriff Dies
• Forged by Fire: Elkton’s Main Street
• Remembering a Friend of Preservation in Cecil County
• Elkton Eclipse Fall to Rivals From Brooklyn in Final in 19th Century Base Ball
• Walking the Line on a Sunday in October
• All’s Quiet on the Octoraro Branch Line
• Reading an Old Diary from the C & D Canal in 1864
• Cecil County EMS: A Quick History
• Another Cecil County Vacation Spot – White Crystal Beach
• Recalling Holloway Beach, Charlestown, in the 1930s
• An Outstanding Late Evening Program on WERU, Blue Hill, Maine Has Cecil County Connections
• Elkton Considers Selling Historic Acreage to Developer
• Elkton’s Largest Fire
• Cecil Becomes a Vacation Spot
• Inaugural Run of Amtrak’s Chesapeake
• An Ancient Punishment – The Whipping Post Last Used in Cecil in 1940
• All Aboard at the Elkton Railroad Station
• Recalling Robert Kennedy’s Funeral Train Passing Through Cecil County
• Drumming legend Bernard “Pretty” Purdie Brings It Home
• Saying So Long to the Mayor of Main Street
• Reflecting on Yesterday in Cecil County

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