4155 Mears Avenue, Chesapeake Beach, MD, 20732

410.257.3892/cbrailway@calvertcountymd.gov

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A Church & a Racetrack Unite!

  • kriscbrm
  • March 7th, 2023
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St. Anthony’s Roman Catholic Church in North Beach, MD has a fantastic back story!   Here is where I found the most unlikely answer to a question I had been wondering […]

Timing is Everything… when building a Railway!

  • kriscbrm
  • January 24th, 2023
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Did smallpox have anything to do with the failure of the first company to have the idea of building a railroad to Chesapeake Beach?  Well… maybe.  But first, a quick […]

Calvert ‘King of the Bootleggers’!

  • kriscbrm
  • January 17th, 2023
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Today, January 17, 2023, is National Bootlegger’s Day! And as it so happens, the “CALVERT ‘KING OF THE BOOTLEGGERS’ ” was arrested in 1932 near his home in Chesapeake Beach, […]

Candy vs. Alcohol … during WWI

  • kriscbrm
  • December 28th, 2022
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Lowney’s chocolates, a favorite and well-known chocolate of choice in the early 1900s, were sold in the Souvenir Shop on the Chesapeake Beach boardwalk! Here is fun little fact:  Lowney’s […]

The Club House (aka The Belvedere), the racetrack and REALITY!

  • cbrm2020
  • December 21st, 2022
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The MEMBERS-ONLY Club House (later named The Belvedere) was built hand-in-hand with the racetrack. Newspapers across the country stressed their connection. The Club House was described as a “Swiss Chalet”… […]

  • Physical Address: 4155 Mears Avenue, Chesapeake Beach, MD, 20732 (near the Rod 'N Reel Restaurant) Mailing Address: Chesapeake Beach Railway Museum, PO Box 1227, Chesapeake Beach, MD, 20732

  • 410.257.3892

  • cbrailway@calvertcountymd.gov

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  • Founded in the spring of 2017
 

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