{"id":1586,"date":"2014-10-02T00:06:53","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T00:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/?p=1586"},"modified":"2024-06-06T20:20:41","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T01:20:41","slug":"19th-century-travel-guide-for-travel-between-philadelphia-and-baltimore-helpful-for-local-history-researchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/19th-century-travel-guide-for-travel-between-philadelphia-and-baltimore-helpful-for-local-history-researchers\/","title":{"rendered":"19th Century Travel Guide for Travel between Philadelphia and Baltimore Helpful for Local History Researchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1588\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1588\" style=\"width: 279px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/2014-09-29_22-57-16.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1588 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/2014-09-29_22-57-16.jpg?resize=279%2C243&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Stanton Railroad Station \" width=\"279\" height=\"243\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1588\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Stanton Railroad Station, From the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Railroad Guide via Hathi Trust http:hathitrust.org<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When we hit the road these days for a trip to some unfamiliar destination, we often consult travel directories and guidebooks. These handy sources, whether online or on the printed page, are packed with information about a place, providing details for sightseeing and accommodations<\/p>\n<p>They were there in the 19<sup>th<\/sup> century too, filling the need of itinerant types for information to orient them to things on their journey to unfamiliar places.\u00a0 While there are a number of works available from the 1800s for the Delmarva Peninsula, I recently worked with two as I prepared for a Delaware Humanities forum talk for the <a href=\"http:\/\/newarkdehistoricalsociety.org\/\">Newark Historical Society.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My talk was about the social history of railroading in Delaware and I was reorienting it to matters more of interest to the heritage group\u2019s members. So I surfed over to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dp.la\/\">Digital Library of America<\/a>, an excellent portal for starting online searches.\u00a0 That search yielded the sought after reference, <a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.hathitrust.org\/Record\/005868246\">the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Guide published in 1856<\/a> by Charles Dare.\u00a0 This little volume was designed, the author said, to communicate information that was most interesting to passengers over the route.\u00a0 Dare updated his first publication with a second issue in 1877.<\/p>\n<p>The handy guide described for the traveler the route from Philadelphia to Baltimore, providing pages of details about the destinations on the upper Delmarva Peninsula, such as Claymont, Bellevue, Wilmington, Newport, Stanton, Newark, Elkton, North East, Charlestown and the Susquehanna River crossing. As the miles rolled by on those long ago journeys the guide described items of interest for\u00a0sightseers and provided practical destination information on local accommodations.<\/p>\n<p>There are also plenty of sketches. The author offered a special thanks to D. C. Baxter for\u00a0his work, the\u00a0transformation of\u00a0&#8220;photographs of scenery upon the route into well-executed wood engravings.\u201d\u00a0 The maps were done by J. E. Larkin.<\/p>\n<p>Just as this guide was handy to people living in the 19<sup>th<\/sup> century, the modern day researcher will find it helpful for understanding places along the road.\u00a0 Fortunately these rare books have been digitized by academic libraries and are now readily available for on demand use.\u00a0 I purchased a copy of the original work from a rare book dealer in New England probably 30 years ago.\u00a0 Otherwise it would have taken a time consuming trip to a special collections or large academic library.<\/p>\n<p>But as digitization expands our easy contact with heritage-related materials, it helps\u00a0advance our understanding and appreciation of our past as practically everyone has the ability to conveniently access rare materials.\u00a0 The physical copy of the e-resource I was using is located at the Harvard University Library.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1592\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1592\" style=\"width: 609px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/2014-10-01_20-03-07.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1592 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/2014-10-01_20-03-07.jpg?resize=609%2C350&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Proposed railroad bridge between Perryville and Havre de Grace\" width=\"609\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/2014-10-01_20-03-07.jpg?w=609&amp;ssl=1 609w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/2014-10-01_20-03-07.jpg?resize=300%2C172&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 609px) 100vw, 609px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1592\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Proposed railroad bridge between Perryville and Havre de Grace. Source: Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Railroad Guide, via www.hathitrust.org<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1587\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1587\" style=\"width: 657px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/2014-09-29_22-50-52a.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1587 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/2014-09-29_22-50-52a.jpg?resize=640%2C410&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Newark Train Station.\\\" width=\"640\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/2014-09-29_22-50-52a.jpg?w=657&amp;ssl=1 657w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/2014-09-29_22-50-52a.jpg?resize=300%2C192&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1587\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Newark Train Station. Source: Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Railroad Guide, via www.hathitrust.org<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we hit the road these days for a trip to some unfamiliar destination, we often consult travel directories and guidebooks. These handy sources, whether online or on the printed page, are packed with information about a place, providing details for sightseeing and accommodations They were there in the 19th century too, filling the need&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[95,21,26,120,119,118,33,121,122],"class_list":["post-1586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cecil-county","tag-delaware-2","tag-maryland","tag-newark","tag-p-w-b-railroad-guide","tag-philadelphia-wilmington-and-baltimore-railroad-guide","tag-railroad","tag-stanton","tag-susquehanna-river"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>19th Century Travel Guide for Travel between Philadelphia and Baltimore Helpful for Local History Researchers - Mike&#039;s History Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"19th-century railroad guides provided travelers with important information for their train trips, describing the communities and things to do.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/19th-century-travel-guide-for-travel-between-philadelphia-and-baltimore-helpful-for-local-history-researchers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"19th Century Travel Guide for Travel between Philadelphia and Baltimore Helpful for Local History Researchers - Mike&#039;s History Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"19th-century railroad guides provided travelers with important information for their train trips, describing the communities and things to do.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/19th-century-travel-guide-for-travel-between-philadelphia-and-baltimore-helpful-for-local-history-researchers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Mike&#039;s History Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-10-02T00:06:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-06-07T01:20:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/2014-09-29_22-57-16.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Mike\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@dixonhistory\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@dixonhistory\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Mike\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dixonhistory.com\\\/news\\\/19th-century-travel-guide-for-travel-between-philadelphia-and-baltimore-helpful-for-local-history-researchers\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dixonhistory.com\\\/news\\\/19th-century-travel-guide-for-travel-between-philadelphia-and-baltimore-helpful-for-local-history-researchers\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Mike\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dixonhistory.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/5c3eab0b11cf9e25c353fd304278ed6a\"},\"headline\":\"19th Century Travel Guide for Travel between Philadelphia and Baltimore Helpful for Local History Researchers\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-10-02T00:06:53+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-06-07T01:20:41+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dixonhistory.com\\\/news\\\/19th-century-travel-guide-for-travel-between-philadelphia-and-baltimore-helpful-for-local-history-researchers\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":524,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dixonhistory.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/5c3eab0b11cf9e25c353fd304278ed6a\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dixonhistory.com\\\/news\\\/19th-century-travel-guide-for-travel-between-philadelphia-and-baltimore-helpful-for-local-history-researchers\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dixonhistory.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2014\\\/10\\\/2014-09-29_22-57-16.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"cecil county\",\"delaware\",\"maryland\",\"newark\",\"p w &amp; 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