1900 Map of Elkton

About this map

Elkton Landing serves as the focal point of this turn-of-the-century landscape, where the tides of the Elk River meet the industrial ambitions of the Eastern Shore. The map reveals a dense network of nineteenth-century transportation, from the massive Chesapeake & Delaware Canal in the south to the high-traffic rails of the Baltimore and Ohio R. R. and the Baltimore and Washington R. R.. These corridors fostered a string of small mill towns and crossroads such as Singerly, Childs, and Barksdale.