Kent County, Maryland
Maryland, Delaware and Virginia Railroad
Baltimore & Eastern Railroad
Love Point, at one time, was used as a park as Steamboats brought passengers from Baltimore. There was a Love Point train line that went from the Point to Lewes Pier in Delaware. Love Point “replaced” the Claiborne stop along the way to Ocean City . A recent drive to the area found homes dotting the shoreline and nothing left of the park or the station.
References Found – Poor’s Intermediate Manual of Railroads – 1917
Interstate Commerce Commission Reports – 1918
In 1910, there was debate of using Love Point instead of Claiborne. The article called it “M&M” or “Merchants & Manufactures Assn. ” which would cut times along the line, while allowing access to Philadelphia.
In 1924, The line from Love Point to Lewes Delaware was being reopened after a brief shut down on the Maryland, Delaware and Virginia Railroad, which underwent a foreclosure and was now the Baltimore, Chesapeake & Atlantic Railroad.
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