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The Baltimore, Chesapeake and Atlantic Railway, nicknamed Black Cinders & Ashes, [1] was a railroad that ran 87 miles (140.0 km) from Claiborne, Maryland (with steamship connections to Baltimore), to Ocean City, Maryland from 1894 to 1924.
Ocean City, [oʊʃɪn sɪtiː] officially the Town of Ocean City, is an Atlantic resort town in Worcester County, Maryland, along the East Coast of the United States.The population was 6,844 at the 2020 U.S. census, although during summer weekends the city hosts between 320,000 and 345,000 vacationers and up to eight million visitors annually.
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Ocean City was founded on July 4, 1875, [4] when the Atlantic Hotel opened on Assateague Island. At the time, Assateague Island was continuous from the Delaware state line to well south of Ocean City: the Ocean City Inlet was not formed until a hurricane in August 1933 cut across the south end of the town. The inlet was cut not by waves ...
Crosby S. Noyes Education Campus, a public school in Washington, D.C., was named in his honor. Two residential streets — Noyes Drive and Crosby Road — carry his name in the Woodside Park neighborhood of Silver Spring, Maryland. The entire neighborhood was developed from his country estate, known as Alton Farm. [11]
Mayors of Ocean City, Maryland (2 P) Pages in category "People from Ocean City, Maryland" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
Worcester County was created by the division of the formerly larger Eastern Shore's Somerset County in 1742. The county seat, which was previously located near the confluence of Dividing Creek with the Pocomoke River, was later transferred to the river port of Snow Hill, at the head of navigation of the Pocomoke, now near the center of the new county.
It remained an elementary school for many years until the new elementary school was built in West Ocean City. The building then became City Hall for Ocean City . The building is located on Maryland 528 and Third Street, four blocks north of the end of U.S. 50. There have since been several additions to the building to accommodate the growing ...