DELAWARE & DELAMARVA RAILROADS

DELAWARE & DELMARVA RAILROAD

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Let us start with Wikipedia information we who have computers all have on hand.

Lets us start with the Queen Ann's Railroad with the facts on hand. The railroad was formed in Maryland 1894 and received Delaware legislative authorization in 1895. This railroad ran from Love Point, Maryland to Lewes Delaware and connected to Baltimore by

ferry across the Chesapeake and Cape May, New Jersey by steamers from Lewes. In 1894 the western terminus was Queenstown Maryland. Shortly the terminus was extended 13

miles to Love Point on the Chesapeake Bay in 1902. The Cape May summer only express

began in 1901. The railroad also owned steamers Endeavor, Queen Ann and Queen Caroline

In 1905 the Queen Ann's Railroad became the Maryland, Delaware and Virginia

Railroad, MD*V, a subsidiary of Pennsylvania Railroad.

The Queen Ann's had served Centerville, Chester, Denton, Love Point, Queen Ann. Queenstown, Stevensville all in Maryland, in Delaware it had stations at Hickman, Adamsville, Blanchard, Ellendale, Georgetown, Greenwood, , Lewes Milton, Owens, Oakley, Whitesboro and Rehoboth. 1928 both the MD&V and the BC&A railroads merged

with Baltimore Eastern Railway.

Today, most of the abandoned original track lands are the Cross Island Trail a part of

the American Discovery Trail. Both Milton and Ellnendale Delaware have a historic marker

and the original stations in Stevensville and Sudlersville Maryland are museums.