Upper Chesapeake Bay Resorts Once Lured Crowds of Anxious Vacationers

Upper Chesapeake Bay Resorts Once Lured Crowds of Anxious Vacationers

If the well-to-do sought the cool comforts and exclusivity offered by the rambling mountain resort hotels of Western Maryland, other folks with less disposable income boarded steamboats in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor for a pleasant cruise to Eastern Shore destinations. They arrived by streetcar to the Pratt and Light Street piers dressed in their summer finery and straw hats waiting to climb the gangways of such venerable bay steamers as the Lord B…