Tolchester Beach, Maryland

Tolchester Beach, Maryland
Unincorporated community
Tolchester Beach is located in Maryland
Tolchester Beach
Tolchester Beach
Location within Maryland
Tolchester Beach is located in the United States
Tolchester Beach
Tolchester Beach
Location within the United States
Coordinates: 39°12′51″N 76°14′41″W / 39.21417°N 76.24472°W / 39.21417; -76.24472
Country United States
State Maryland
County Kent
Elevation
0 ft (0 m)
Time zoneUTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-4 (EDT)
ZIP code
21620
Area codes410, 443, and 667
GNIS feature ID595098[1]

Tolchester Beach is an unincorporated community located on the eastern shore of the Chesapeake Bay in Kent County, Maryland, United States. Tolchester Beach is located just north of Rock Hall.

Amusement park

Established in 1877, Tolchester Beach was a popular amusement park and resort during the late 19th and 20th centuries.[2][3][4] At its height it saw as many as 20,000 visitors each weekend. It started on 10 acres and eventually expanded to 155 acres. It had a dance hall, a roller coaster called Whirl Pool Dips, bowling alleys, a bingo parlor, a roller skating rink, "the whip", dodgems, pony and goat carts, boat rides, a miniature steam train named Jumbo, novelty and candy shops, and popcorn, ice cream, hot dogs, and kewpie doll stands. Baltimore City residents could easily hop a regular steamship ferry for day trips or stay the night, making Tolchester a main destination for generations. The resort was closed in 1962.[5]

Some of the steamships that served Tolchester Beach were the Emma Giles[6] and Louise.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Tolchester Beach". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. ↑ "Tolchester Beach". Maryland Online Encyclopedia. 2005. Archived from the original on September 26, 2007.
  3. 1 2 Cowan, Katherine (November 1999). "Tolchester Photograph Collection, ca. 1883-1925". Prints and Photographs Division of the Maryland Historical Society Library.
  4. ↑ Milt Diggins. "Cecil County, The Tolchester Beach Improvement Company, and the end of the Steamboat Era". Archived from the original on April 14, 2007.
  5. ↑ "Tolchester Beach Revisited Museum". The Mainstay. 2007. Archived from the original on May 16, 2008.
  6. ↑ 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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