Kent County, Maryland
Kent County Railroad
Baltimore, Chesapeake and Atlantic Railway
On the ride to Betterton Beach, you’ll likely go through the Town of Still Pond. It’s a neat little Town, and you’ll be through the Town before you know it. I was surprised there had been been a small train station for Still Pond, and I have not yet to locate the site of the station, which on a map shows the location of “Still Pond Station”, which usually indicates that the actual station is just outside of town, along the train tracks. I haven’t heard anything about the status of the station, although it looks like it is no longer standing.
An account from 1888 shows a tornado went through Still Pond, and flattened a factory near the Town, killing 11 people. Most of those killed were in a canning factory where the workers were from Baltimore. The article mentions the Still Pond Station as being two miles away from Still Pond. The Town got it’s name from a pond nearby that reportedly never froze, of which the bottom of the pond had yet to have been discovered and was about a quarter of an acre in size.
Still Pond Station was along the Kent County Railroad, between the stations at Lynch and Kennedyville. It was about two miles South of Still Pond “Proper”. The tiny station had gone by the name of “Hepbron” for a bit and later was known as Still Pond Station, and apparently was along Still Pond Road and the Railroad tracks.
Several sources list the town as Stillpond and not Still Pond, and some mention the Still Pond Station while others actually just put the Train depot in the Town of Still Pond, which it was not. A guide of 1904 lists both the Still Pond Station in the Town and Hepbron station, although they appear to be one and the same.
Still Pond ( the actual pond ) from what I can figure out was a pond on private property that ” never froze” and of which no one ( back in the 1930’s ) knew just how deep it was. One article told of a whirlpool in the pond, that you could not see from the shore, although it was ” famous ” locally and often had visitors to it that came just to see the mysterious pond. In later years, the Coast Guard used the name for a Coast Guard Station in the area, and that later became a park.
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