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The newspaper formed from the 1936 merger of The Centreville Observer and Queen Anne Record. [3] [4] In the 1930s it was purchased by Leon Asa Andrus. [5] In 1946, Andrus would go on to wage a successful multi-year editorial campaign to get the Chesapeake Bay Bridge built. [6] The Kent Island Bay Times was first published in 1963. [2]
Pages in category "Kent Island, Maryland" The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 total. ... Kent Fort, Maryland; Bay Times and Record-Observer; Kent ...
Bay Times and Record-Observer: Chester: Weekly Adams Publishing Group, Chesapeake Publishing Formed from a merging of The Kent Island Bay Times and the Record-Observer. [6] Bethesda Journal: Bethesda: Bowie Blade: Bowie: The Calvert Recorder: Calvert County: 1971 [7] Adams Publishing Group, [8] Chesapeake Publishing The Capital: Annapolis: 1884 ...
Kent Island is the largest island in the Chesapeake Bay and a historic place in Maryland.To the east, a narrow channel known as the Kent Narrows barely separates the island from the Delmarva Peninsula, and on the other side, the island is separated from Sandy Point, an area near Annapolis, by roughly four miles (6.4 km) of water.
Broad Creek was a town on western Kent Island, Maryland that existed from the 17th century to the 19th century. The town once served as the eastern terminus of a trans-Chesapeake Bay ferry line [1] that was part of an early route between Annapolis and Philadelphia.
William Claiborne (c.1600–c.1677), originally from Crayford, pioneer, early settler in the Americas, and from 1621 the surveyor of Jamestown in the Virginia Colony, later establishing, in 1631, the first permanent European settlement in Maryland, on Kent Island where his own residence was called Fort Crayford. [3] [4] [5]
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One death in Maryland is attributed to the hurricane, and over 200 injuries are reported. In all, damage is estimated at over $530 million (2003 USD, $621 million 2008 USD). [67] Winds sensors in Washington, D.C. report winds of up to 85 mph (137 km/h), which causes $125 million (2003 USD, $146 million 2008 USD) in damage. [68]