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2025 Calendar of Events
Heritage Society of Essex and Middle River 2025 Calendar of Events FEBRUARY February Membership Meeting Thursday, February 6, 2025 at ...
Heritage Society of Essex & Middle River 2024 Year in Review
Heritage Society of Essex and Middle River 2024 Calendar of Events JANUARY No Monthly Membership Meeting. January 15 - Annual ...
Heritage Society of Essex & Middle River 2023 Year in Review
2023 Newsletter Download PDF 2023 Museum Events February Speaker Series: "Streetcars in Baltimore and Beyond" Wednesday, February 15, 2023 Father ...
The treasure lore of Hart Island
The treasure lore of Hart Island By Jackie Nickel A friend recently shared with me a tale worth repeating and ...
2021 Museum Newsletter
Museum Newsletter Click to download Museum Newsletter PDF, or click any page below to enlarge ...
2022 First Responders Appreciation Day
First Responders Appreciation Day took place on Saturday, May 21, 2022 from 11 am - 1 pm. Museum visitors stopped ...
2022 Purple Saturday
Purple Saturday! August 27, 2022, 11 am to 1 pm Please join us for our FREE Purple Saturday Open House ...
Christmas at the Museum, 2022
2022 Essex Community Tree Lighting Saturday, Dec. 3, 2022, 5 - 7 pm Please join us for this fun family ...
2021 Essex Community Tree Lighting
The Essex community joined us on Saturday, December 4, 2021 for some holiday cheer as we lit our 25-foot Norway ...
1979 Flooding at Bay Drive in Bowleys Quarters
Flooding at Bay Drive on Middle River in Bowleys Quarters Baltimore, Maryland Septermber 6th, 1979-0906 WMAR-TV (Television Station: Baltimore, Md.) ...
Essex, Maryland 1980 Revitalization Project
Fire at the Essex Diner, Essex 1980 Revitalization Project Excerpted from https://archive.org/details/WMAR-RAW-001-007 News Storage: September 3-6, 1979 by WMAR-TV (Television ...
2021 Ghost Hunts
Essex Museum Paranormal Preview Night Friday, October 22, 2021 Join us at the Essex Museum for our Paranormal Preview Night! ...
Christmas in July at the Essex Museum
Sunday, July 18 from 1 to 4 pm The Museum will be hosting a free Christmas in July event! We’ll ...

It’s Baseball Season!
Batter Up! It's springtime again in Essex, Maryland and that means baseball and opening day - time to throw out ...
2020 Heritage Society Annual Holiday Tree Lighting
We are holding our annual Essex Tree Lighting on Saturday, December 5th, 2020 from 5 to 7 pm. Please join ...
Christmas in Old Baltimore with Historian Wayne Schaumburg
On Thursday, December 12, 2019 we welcomed Baltimore historian and educator Wayne R. Schaumburg for a talk on “Christmas In ...
2019 Heritage Society Annual Holiday Open House and Tree Lighting
We are holding our annual Essex Tree Lighting & Holiday Open House on Saturday, December 7th, 2019 from 5 to ...
2019 History and Haunts Paranormal Expo
The History and Haunts Paranormal Expo was presented by The Baltimore Paranormal Society and The Heritage Society of Essex and ...

2018 Museum Christmas Tree Lighting
Dec. 8th, 2018: Holiday Tree Lighting and Museum Open House For our 2019 Annual Open House and Tree Lighting we ...

Baumgartner Collection Book #105: Serving Our Country
Baumgartner Collection Book #105: Serving Our Country Below are some excerpts from the collection. To view all of the clippings, ...