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Last Gasp Emma Giles Featured Photo
The Last Gasp of Legendary Steamer “Emma Giles”–Tolchester Beach, 1936 Way Back Machine

The Last Gasp of Legendary Steamer “Emma Giles”–Tolchester Beach, 1936

In the photo that appears both up top and nearby here the steamboat Emma Giles is arriving at the Tolchester Beach Resort on Maryland's Upper Eastern Shore. It's a summer day in 1936. She is at the end of the line when it comes to her passenger-service days--this is the closing stretch of a long, storied career. In her prime, the gorgeous sidewheeler made steamboat…
April 29, 2026
Steamboat Emma Giles to Tolchester Featured Photo SIZED
HOP ABOARD! What It Was Like Taking the Steamboat Emma Giles to Tolchester Way Back Machine

HOP ABOARD! What It Was Like Taking the Steamboat Emma Giles to Tolchester

I spent some quality time recently with a wonderful old book by historian David C. Holly, Steamboat on the Chesapeake: Emma Giles and the Tolchester Line. Among the highlights in my reading was this glorious description of what it was like to board that steamboat in Baltimore's Inner Harbor and, bound for a daytrip to the famed-but-long-gong upper Chesapeake Bay resort at Tolchester Beach in…
April 18, 2024
Tolchester Beach and Steamship
QUOTE OF THE DAY: Traveling to Tolchester Beach in 1879 Quote of the DayWay Back Machine

QUOTE OF THE DAY: Traveling to Tolchester Beach in 1879

In 1879, a Baltimore company called A.P. Lloyd worked up a travel guide for boaters and travelers called The Chesapeake Illustrated. Below is what they had to say about one famous old-time destination, Tolchester Beach in Kent County, Maryland. And below that are some photos of how things looked at Tolchester back in the day. TOLCHESTER BEACH, THE NEAREST and probably the most popular of all the…
August 19, 2018