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JANUARY
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| 1. First public school system in Cecil County opened, 1859 |
| 2. The Woman's Club of Elkton organized by Miss Mary Jamar, 1913 |
| 3. The Union Rifles organized at Port Deposit, 1861 |
| 4. First number of the Perryville Record published, 1893 |
| 5. Michael Rudulph, Patriot, born at Head of Elk, 1758 |
| 6. Four large icehouses at Perryville destroyed by fire, 1906 |
| 7. U.S. Grant Post No. 10, G.A.R., formed at Cherry Hill, 1880 |
| 8. Presbyterian church in Chesapeake City dedicated, 1860 |
| 9. Electric lighting first used in Perryville, 1912 |
| 10. First meeting of vestry at St. Stephen's Church, 1693 |
| 11. Wilson's woolen factory on Little Elk Creek burned, 1853 |
| 12. First public school in Elkton held in Court House, 1859 |
| 13. Cecil County struck by fury of severe blizzard, 1898 |
| 14. Augustine Herman granted Letters of Denization, 1660 |
| 15. Railroad tracks laid on ice over river at Perryville, 1852 |
| 16. Rev. Robert Hoover began pastorate of Perryville Church, 1896 |
| 17. First radio station operated in New Central Hotel, 1955 |
| 18. Electricity used for lighting for first time in Elkton, 1893 |
| 19. Post office established at Cromwell in Cecil County, 1851 |
| 20. 200th anniversary of North Sassafras Parish observed, 1893 |
| 21. Elkton Presbyterian church dedicated, 1834 |
| 22. woodlawn camp-meeting Association incorporated, 1870 |
| 23. Union Hospital of Cecil County incorporated, 1903 |
| 24. First barge launched at Deibert boatyard in Elkton, 1911 |
| 25. Officers of Historical Society elected at Elkton meeting, 1943 |
| 26. The Bohemia River Bridge Company chartered, 1853 |
| 27. First number of Maryland Gazette issued by Jonas Green, 1745 |
| 28. First electrified train service operated in County, 1935 |
| 29. Post office established in Elk Neck, J. A. Wilson, P.M., 1853 |
| 30. Mutual Fire Insurance Co. of Cecil County incorporated, 1846 |
| 31. Thomas Ward Veasey, Governor 1836-39, born at Cherry Grove, 1774 |
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FEBRUARY
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| 1. The Cecil Democrat first issued by Thomas M. Coleman, 1840 |
| 2. Lancaster, Cecil & Southern Railroad Co. incorporated, 1892 |
| 3. New Methodist Protestant church at Leeds dedicated, 1889 |
| 4. The Community Fire Company of Perryville incorporated, 1924 |
| 5. First General Assembly of Maryland met in Annapolis, 1777 |
| 6. Walt Whitman lectured at Odd Fellows Hall, Elkton, 1886 |
| 7. Town of Elkton reincorporated by General Assembly, 1822 (first incorporated in 1787) |
| 8. First meeting of the Historical Society of Cecil County, 1932 |
| 9. Big Elk Chapel at Flounders Corner dedicated, 1878 |
| 10. Capt. Jeremiah Baker Chapter, D.A.R., formed in Elkton, 1923 |
| 11. The North East Record suspended publication, 1882 |
| 12. Elk Klan #24, Knights of Ku Klux, organized, 1923 |
| 13. Rosebank Cemetery Association incorporated, 1847 |
| 14. New Presbyterian Church in Port Deposit dedicated, 1872 |
| 15. John A. Kay, Rising Sun, lost with battleship, Maine, 1898 |
| 16. The Cecil County News discontinued publication, 1937 |
| 17. Zion Methodist church in Cecilton incorporated, 1851 |
| 18. "Friendship" at Head of Elk patented to Nicholas Painter, 1678 |
| 19. West Amwell Rolling Mills closed indefinitely, 1888 |
| 20. Principio Methodist church (organized 1845) incorporated, 1874 |
| 21. Elkton Academy burned during snowstorm, 1854 |
| 22. Washington's birthday - First President born, 1732 |
| 23. Col. Stephen Hyland, born in Elk Neck, 1743 |
| 24. Use of tracks on ice across Susquehanna discontinued, 1852 |
| 25. Charlestown chosen as new county seat, 1782 |
| 26. Nottingham Preparative Meeting of Friends incorporated, 1849 |
| 27. Home Building & Loan Ass'n. of Cecil County incorporated, 1901 |
| 28. First meeting of Old Bohemia Historical Society, 1953 |
| 29. Leap Year Day |
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MARCH
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| 1. City delivery of mail inaugurated in Elkton, 1922 |
| 2. Town Hall in Port Deposit burned to ground, 1889 |
| 3. Col. George E. Mitchell, U.S. Congressman, born, 1781 |
| 4. James B. Groome sworn in as Governor of Maryland, 1874 |
| 5. People's Bank of Elkton opened for business, 1924 |
| 6. The Cecil County Railroad (north East-Penna.) Chartered, 1850 |
| 7. Cherry Hill, Elkton & Chesapeake City Rwy. incorporated, 1896 |
| 8. First session of Court held at Court House Point, 1719 |
| 9. Wilmington Annual Conference of M. E. Church met in Elkton, 1886 |
| 10. Newark, Elkton & Eastern Shore Railway Co. incorporated, 1902 |
| 11. Trustees of Almshouse advertised for 15,000 herrings, 1882 |
| 12. County struck by biggest blizzard of all time, 1888 |
| 13. Rising Sun, North East, & Elk River Elec. Rwy. incorporated, 1896 |
| 14. Rising Sun Community Library opened, 1942 |
| 15. Elkton Horse Company formed to recover stolen horses, 1858 |
| 16. First train passed over Columbia & Port Deposit R. R., 1877 |
| 17. "Billy the Joker" murdered at Chesapeake City, 1886 |
| 18. First automobile used on rural mail route in County, 1910 |
19. First train ran on Lancaster, Cecil & Southern Railroad, 1893 | |
| 20. New High School building in North East opened, 1906 |
| 21. The McCullough Iron Company placed in receivership, 1892 |
| 22. Col. Tom Thumb and wife gave exhibition in Elkton, 1879 |
| 23. President Washington breakfasted at Heath's in Warwick, 1791 |
| 24. Governor Bradford signed school law for Cecil County, 1865 |
| 25. Rotary Club of Elkton No. 1705 founded, 1924 |
| 26. St. Stephen's Episcopal Church at Earleville dedicated, 1706 |
| 27. First white settlement established in Maryland, 1634 |
| 28. Tome campus sold for U.S. naval training base, 1942 |
| 29. Church of Good Shepherd at Chesapeake City consecrated, 1883 |
| 30. Sheriff J. Myron Miller killed by "jail trusty", 1912 |
| 31. The Cecil Farmers' Telephone Company incorporated, 1904 |
