#WEATHER OCEAN CITY MD SERIES#
However, throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s, the width of the beach began to shrink, prompting the first of a series of beach replenishment projects.Ī fire during the annual Sunfest destroyed five boardwalk businesses in 1994. Ocean City has become one of the largest vacation areas on the East Coast.īy the 1970s, big business flourished and gave birth to the construction of more than 15,000 condominium units, creating high-rise condominiums that gave investors a glimpse of the ocean and pounding surf. This tunnel connects Northhampton County on the Delmarva Peninsula to Southeast Virginia. In 1964, with the completion of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel, a whole new pathway to the south was opened. In 1952, with the completion of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, Ocean City became easily accessible to people in the Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area. Ocean City has undergone a fairly rapid expansion that took place during the post- World War II boom. Louis Avenue, leading to new development where previously only marshland had been. The dredge was pumped back onto the western shore of Ocean City allowing the creation of Chicago Avenue and St. In the late 1930s, the Army Corps of Engineers dredged a new channel on the bayside of Ocean City to allow larger boats to have access to Sinepuxent Bay. The inlet eventually helped to establish Ocean City as an important Mid-Atlantic fishing port as it offered easy access to the fishing grounds of the Atlantic Ocean. The Army Corps of Engineers took advantage of nature's intervention and made the inlet at the south end of Ocean City permanent. The inlet separated what is now Ocean City from Assateague Island.
The Ocean City Inlet was formed during a significant hurricane in 1933, which also destroyed the train tracks across the Sinepuxent Bay. The first guard was Edward Lee Carey, who watched over the bathers that were out of sight from the original Coast Guard tower on Caroline Street. McCabe and Coast Guard Captain William Purnell. It was done in collaboration with Mayor William W. In 1930, Ocean City Beach Patrol was formed in order to better protect the bathers that now frequented the shoreline. By 1881, a line was completed across Sinepuxent Bay to the shore, bringing rail passengers on the Baltimore, Chesapeake and Atlantic Railroad directly into the town to a train station on Philadelphia Avenue and returning to larger city markets with locally caught fish from Ocean City. By 187,8 tourists could come by the Wicomico & Pocomoke Railroad from Berlin to the shores of Sinepuxent Bay across from the town. Besides the beach and ocean, it offered dancing and billiard rooms to the visitors of its more than 400 rooms, and for years it was the northernmost attraction in Ocean City. As of 2014, it is still owned and operated by the Purnell family. The Atlantic Hotel was originally owned by the Atlantic Hotel Company, but eventually Charles W. The Atlantic Hotel, the first major hotel in the town, opened July 4, 1875. Prior to 1870, what is now Ocean City was known as "The Ladies' Resort to the Ocean". The corporation stock of 4,000 shares sold for $25 each.
A decision was made to develop it and 250 lots were cut into it, and a corporation was formed to help with the development of the land. They came not so much to visit as to survey the spit. Soon after, other simple boarding houses were built on the strip of sand, with the activity attracting prominent businessmen from the Maryland Eastern Shore, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Wilmington.
During those days, people arrived by stagecoach and ferry. In 1869, businessman Isaac Coffin built the first beach-front cottage to receive paying guests. The land on which the city was built and much of the surrounding area was obtained by Thomas Fenwick, an Englishman, from the Native Americans. Ocean City's inlet during the offseason 19th century
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