Caputo's Corner @ North Bay

Greetings blogosphere from North East!  I arrived at the North Bay complex at about 2 this afternoon.  It looks like the kids have been having a great time today and this week in general.  Tomorrow is their last full day as Friday everyone departs for home.  I shall be heading back to the Laurel Command Center after dinnertime tomorrow, but for now, I am enjoying the scenery that Cecil County has to offer. 

Every time I travel to New York, New Jersey, or Philadelphia, I pass through Cecil County, and don't really think much of it.  It really is a pretty place here at the head of the Chesapeake Bay.  All of the trees are in full Fall splendor, and the Bay looks really nice from this vantage point.  I'm not going to turn this blog into a postcard, so I'll cease with the musing, but my point is that we often drive through areas like Cecil County on the way to other destinations without really appreciating what these areas have to offer.

I had never stopped in Cecil County before (except at the Wawa on Route 279 while shunpiking the Delaware toll plaza), but it is in a very unique position at the top of the Chesapeake Bay.  Marylanders don't really know whether to include Cecil as part of the Eastern Shore, or part of the Baltimore metro, or even part of the Philadelphia metro, but it is a very interesting place in its own right, with some very interesting historical factoids.  For example, I had no idea that Elkton (the county seat), used to be the Las Vegas of the East Coast, at least when it came to eloping.  Now granted, I learned this on Wikipedia, but Elkton has more wedding chapels than most towns in the USA (save nowadays for Vegas).  Today, laws make eloping harder to do, but there are still several active wedding chapels in the town.  However, historically, couples from the Northeast would flock to the town to get hitched, since Maryland was one of the last states to tighten its marriage requirements and Elkton was the first town you came across after you entered the state from Delaware. 

Now you know.