Did you know that for nearly 40 years, a booming candle factory operated right in the heart of Essex? From 1931 to 1969, Frank and Hazel Spaeth ran the Essex Candle Company, supplying handmade tapers to some of the most famous department stores and hotels in Baltimore and D.C. Baumgartner Collection Book #291: Essex Candle … Read more
“I drove by the Fruitland produce stand on Eastern Boulevard in Essex today and saw that they were going up for auction. I decided to turn around and take some photos of this colorful landmark.” Photographer Kevin Moore Fruitland 2025 Photo Gallery by Kevin Moore Fruitland sketch, Herb Schwartz (Maryland Sketchbook, Baltimore Sun, 1995) Fruitland … Read more
Picnic beach. The Pospisils purchased four waterfront lots on Bay Drive in Bowleys Quarters in 1923, clearing trees and opening 200 feet of shoreline to the public as a swimming beach and picnic grounds. Mary Pospisil recalls the family closing up the nightclub late Saturday night, attending 2:30 a.m. Mass at St. Vincent’s church downtown … Read more
Fire at the Essex Diner, Essex 1980 Revitalization Project Excerpted from https://archive.org/details/WMAR-RAW-001-007 News Storage: September 3-6, 1979 by WMAR-TV (Television Station: Baltimore, Md.) University of Baltimore collection
View Book #23: Guttenberger General Store on archive.org (opens in a new window) This binder contains articles and photos of Guttenberger’s General Store. Guttenberger’s, the first grocery store built in Essex, Maryland in 1909 by the Taylor Land Co. was located on the corner of Eastern Avenue and Mace Avenue. It was purchased by Henry … Read more
A Guide To Essex & Middle River, Baltimore County’s Finest Community on the Chesapeake Bay. Published by The Essex-Middle River Chamber of Commerce in the early 1980s. View A Guide To Essex & Middle River on archive.org (opens in a new window) Click on a photo to enlarge:
Sealovers Restaurant on Turkey Point Road which later became Turkey Point Inn, Runabouts and is now Laidback Lenny’s.
“Before there was a Back & Middle River Building and Loan Company, before there was a Peter’s Restaurant, and whatever is at those locations today…..in the late 1890’s Weber’s Store & Beer Garden was located at the corner of Back River Neck Rd. (it wasn’t called Stemmers Run Road back then) and Eastern Ave.” — … Read more
