Tolchester Beach, Maryland

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Tolchester Beach is an unincorporated community located on the eastern shore of the Chesapeake Bay in Kent County, Maryland, United States. Established in 1877, it was formerly a popular resort.{{cite web|url=http://www.mdoe.org/tolchesterbch.html |title=Tolchester Beach |publisher=Maryland Online Encyclopedia |year=2005 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926225013/http://www.mdoe.org/tolchesterbch.html |archivedate=September 26, 2007 }}{{cite web

|url=http://www.mdhs.org/library/fotofind/PP0128lnk.html

|title=Tolchester Photograph Collection, ca. 1883-1925

|author=Cowan, Katherine

|date=November 1999

|publisher=Prints and Photographs Division of the Maryland Historical Society Library

}}{{cite web|url=http://cchistory.org/steamboat.html |title=Cecil County, The Tolchester Beach Improvement Company, and the end of the Steamboat Era |author=Milt Diggins |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070414044636/http://www.cchistory.org/steamboat.html |archivedate=April 14, 2007 }}

Tolchester Beach is located just north of Rock Hall. The resort was closed in 1962.{{cite web

|url = http://www.mainstayrockhall.org/community-outreach/tolchester-beach-museum/

|title = Tolchester Beach Revisited Museum

|publisher = The Mainstay

|year = 2007

|url-status = dead

|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080516064437/http://www.mainstayrockhall.org/community-outreach/tolchester-beach-museum/

|archivedate = 2008-05-16

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In the late 1800s, Tolchester Beach was a popular tourist destination for residents of Baltimore and other areas served by the Chesapeake Bay steamships. The beach had hotels, restaurants, games, picnics, horse-racing, and an amusement park with a merry-go-round and a roller coaster.

Some of the steamships that served Tolchester Beach were the Emma Giles{{cite book|last=Keith|first=Robert C.|title=Baltimore Harbor: A Pictorial History|year=2005|publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press|location=Baltimore, Maryland|isbn=978-0801879807|pages=60–61|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zgoUCozUOdgC&dq=%22emma%20giles%22&pg=PA61}} and Louise''.