Ocean City, Maryland, Early Spring, Life-Saving Museum
Ocean City, MD is town on the sand barrier island known as an oceanside playground for visitors of all ages. Summer is the busy season but personal commitments brought me here during the spring. Here is the "inlet" at the south end of Ocean City. My mom used to tell about the big hurricane that hit in 1933 (she would have been about 10 at the time) which cut this channel through the sand island (upon which Ocean City was built) — with the result that the Atlantic Ocean was then connected to the Sinepuxant Bay (which separates the barrier island from the mainland). The storm also destroyed the train tracks and bridge that crossed the bay. The new inlet separated Ocean City from Assateague Island National Seashore to the south. The Army Corps of Engineers took advantage of nature’s intervention and made the inlet permanent. The inlet eventually helped to establish Ocean City as an important Mid-Atlantic fishing port as it offered easy access to the fishing grounds of the Atlantic Ocean.
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Location: Ocean City, MD, USA
Photo credit: © B. David Cathell / Alamy / Afripics
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