09-10 – October

Betterton is a small town of under 400 on the Chesapeake Bay. Looking at it today one would not know that during the 1st half of the 20th Century it was a summer resort with arcades and amusements for people to escape the heat of the cities of Baltimore and Philadelphia. There were...
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Maryland 313 is about 75 miles long and runs from Mardela Springs in Wicomico County through Dorchester, Caroline, Queen Anne’s and ends at the Town of Galena in Kent County. In the State of Maryland nly Md Route 2, which runs from Solomons Island to Baltimore City at 79.24 miles is longer. It is...
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While reviewing some of the search terms that has brought traffic the ShoreToBeFun.com sites I discovered that one common search was on the phrase ‘list of towns in Delmarva’. The are 132 incorporated cities, towns or villages on the Delmarva Peninsula. Incorporation means that they are authorized by their respective state government to have...
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Looking for a way to promote their town, a few residents of the Delaware Town of Bridgeville, located in North-Western Sussex county decided to do a Fall Festival. But what should they celebrate at their festival? Bridgeville is the home of the biggest producer of scrapple, Rapa Scrapple. Rapa was incorporated in 1926. For...
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Sometimes I wonder how I come up with the strange thoughts I have. This one is easy. I was gathering information for a project that listed the 2006 population estimates of the incorporated municipalities in Delmarva. Since I found the figures I thought I’d take a closer look at them. Depending on whom you...
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