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City on the Sand: Ocean City, Maryland, and the People Who Built it
Mary Corddry
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Description for City on the Sand: Ocean City, Maryland, and the People Who Built it
Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, 10 b/w photos, 22 illus & 2 maps. BIC Classification: WQH; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 229 x 14. Weight in Grams: 390.
In a little more than a hundred years, a wild and desolate barrier island in Maryland became a teeming resort city. The story began in 1875 when a group of Eastern Shore, Baltimore, and Philadelphia businessmen held a grand opening of a five-story frame building called the Atlantic Hotel, and offered surrounding lots for sale at $25 each. Skeptics observing the scene predicted disaster with the first bad storm. What follows is a narrative of shifting sands—and shifting fortunes—as the city weathered natural and economic setbacks and advances to become, every summer, Maryland’s second-largest city. The narrative draws extensively on ... Read more
In a little more than a hundred years, a wild and desolate barrier island in Maryland became a teeming resort city. The story began in 1875 when a group of Eastern Shore, Baltimore, and Philadelphia businessmen held a grand opening of a five-story frame building called the Atlantic Hotel, and offered surrounding lots for sale at $25 each. Skeptics observing the scene predicted disaster with the first bad storm. What follows is a narrative of shifting sands—and shifting fortunes—as the city weathered natural and economic setbacks and advances to become, every summer, Maryland’s second-largest city. The narrative draws extensively on ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Atglen, United States
ISBN
9780764338205
SKU
V9780764338205
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About Mary Corddry
Mary Corddry was born in Harford County, Maryland, and now lives in Churchville, Maryland. Her writing career began at The Land, a journal published by a national, nonprofit conservation organization. Her reviews for that journal led to an invitation from The Baltimore Sun to review books in the agricultural field. In 1969 the Sun contacted her to become their Eastern ... Read more
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