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History · North Beach

North Beach’s history is
mostly unwritten

The public archives hold only 2 old photos of North Beach. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.

1910established
2old images & papers
4recent photos
Locomotive and tractor on display, 1921 · Wikimedia Commons

The story

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The Town of North Beach was originally platted in 1900 and then re-platted in 1908. It was formally incorporated in 1910. It was established as strictly a residential town with ads running in local newspapers proclaiming North Beach as “Washington’s most popular salt water resort.”

Early visitors arrived to the town via steamboat, railroad, oxen carts, trolley cars and automobiles. For more than one hundred years, residents and visitors alike have enjoyed the town's numerous amenities including swimming, crabbing, boating, searching for sharks' teeth and fossils, gambling, fine local restaurants, pier, boardwalk, top-named bands, carnivals, parades, hunting, trapping, beauty contests, motor cycles, numerous festivals, and a farmer's market.

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Timeline

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1910Established
1920s2 items · Locomotive and tractor on displayCommons
1930–1999Nothing yet. Family albums go here.
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1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewLocomotive and tractor on display, 1921: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10

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By decade

North Beach, decade by decade

1920s2 items
Locomotive and tractor on displayCommonsLocomotive and tractor on display1921Locomotive and tractor on displayCommonsLocomotive and tractor on display1921
1930s–
1990s
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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Today4 photos
2016-07-20 16 37 30 View northwest across a tidal marsh from Maryland State Route 261 (Bay Avenue) inCommons2016-07-20 16 37 30 View northwest across a tidal marsh fro…20162016-07-20 16 37 26 View west across a tidal marsh from Maryland State Route 261 (Bay Avenue) inCommons2016-07-20 16 37 26 View west across a tidal marsh from Mar…20162016-07-20 16 37 13 View southeast down an unnamed tidal stream towards the Chesapeake Bay from Maryland State Route 26…Commons2016-07-20 16 37 13 View southeast down an unnamed tidal st…20162016-07-20 16 34 29 View east across the Chesapeake Bay from the intersection of Atlantic Avenue and Seventh Street inCommons2016-07-20 16 34 29 View east across the Chesapeake Bay fro…2016
National Register of Historic Places

Nothing in North Beach is on the National Register yet

That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean North Beach has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Chesapeake Beach Railway Station in Chesapeake Beach, 1.2 miles away.

North Beach and the nearest listed places

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Chesapeake Beach Railway StationHolly HillJoseph D. Lyons HouseAll Saints' ChurchMaidstoneTracy's Landing Tobacco House No. 2

Closest to North Beach

Chesapeake Beach Railway StationChesapeake Beach · Building1.2miHolly HillFriendship · Medieval Transitional · Built 16982.4miJoseph D. Lyons HouseOwings · Building4miAll Saints' ChurchChesapeake Beach · Georgian · Built 17745miMaidstoneOwings · Building5.3mi

How a place gets listed

1Talk to the stateEvery nomination goes through the State Historic Preservation Office. Owners, towns and historical societies can start one.
2Try a local or state list firstMany states keep their own register with a shorter form, a common first step for old barns, halls and schoolhouses.
3Write it upA nomination covers the history, photos and a map. Chesapeake Beach Railway Station’s page links to a real one.
Know an old place in North Beach?A mill, a schoolhouse, a cellar hole, a church: add a photo of it to North Beach’s story, or a memory of it.
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National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places · photos from Wikimedia Commons

Then & now

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Locomotive and tractor on display (1921) and it appears here side by side.

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Stories next door

nearby towns’ history
📜 Chesapeake Beach📜 Eagle Harbor📜 Upper Marlboro📜 Highland Beach

From Wikimedia Commons (6). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.

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