newarking

If you haven’t guessed, I’m a big fan of local history. Sometimes that means traveling outside of Newark, and exploring other towns and cities. I met a friend down in Chestertown, Maryland yesterday, and got to do a little reconnaissance of a pretty neat place.

Chestertown is about 45 miles or so from Newark, and the straightest path there involves traveling down Elkton Road into Maryland (it turns into Newark Avenue on the Maryland side), turning left at the City Pharmacy on North Bridge Street (which is also route 213), and following the Route 213 signs until you arrive in Chestertown about 30 some miles later.

It’s a great historic town, and one of the things I really enjoyed was a short stop at a ship building school:

Chapel Street Motors, formerly at 25 S. Chapel St., seemed like an institution in Newark. It had been there for a few decades, and was the smallest and most affordable place to buy a used car in the area.

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