A Guide To Essex & Middle River, Baltimore County’s Finest Community on the Chesapeake Bay.
Published by The Essex-Middle River Chamber of Commerce in the early 1980s.
View A Guide To Essex & Middle River on archive.org (opens in a new window)
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View Book #39: Street Cars and Buses on archive.org (opens in a new window)
This binder contains 43 pages of photos, letters and documents pertaining to public transportation in the early years of Essex history.
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We thank our founding members Mr. and Mrs. Alex and Helen Baumgartner, their family, and peers for establishing our premiere Baumgartner Collection. The collection captures a historical snapshot of life in Essex and Middle River, Maryland. The collection contains nearly 300 categorical binders documenting our community activities with articles, pamphlets, and photographs from 1969 through the 1980s. The Heritage Society has scanned the collection to our website to share with our extended community. As we continue to build new collections, we are seeking new materials such as photographs and ephemera that pertain to the community and business history of Essex and Middle River. Please contact essexmuseum@gmail.comif you have historical memories or items to donate or would like to become a member.
Easter at Turkey Point in the 1940s. Jackie Nickel and family. 8mm home movie.
Source: nickelforyourmemories.com
Nickel Family Home Movies, 1940s-1960s
These home movies screened as part of Baltimore Museum of Art’s “Baltimore Home Movie Day 2015” during their “Imagining Home” Opening, October 25th, 2015.
Clips include “Rockaway Beach Volunteer Fire Department Training, 1947,” “Rockaway Beach 4th of July Parade, 1952,” and “Ancient and The Honorable and Ancient Nobles of the Hardshell Crab Feast, 1948.”
The granddaughter of Lieutenant Charles J. Horner, Blaze, recently donated the 70+ year old fire turncoat of her grandfather along with several historical photographs to the Heritage Society of Essex and Middle River.
Lieutenant Horner served at Essex Fire Station #7 which was housed in the building that the Heritage Society currently occupies.
Horner also served as Captain at Station #7 for a short while before passing in 1966.
Donations like Blaze’s help preserve the rich legacy of Essex’s citizens and protectors.
