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| | CHESAPEAKE RAILROAD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | The Chesapeake Railroad, no longer in operation ran from Clayton, Delaware to Easton, Maryland on a stretch of rail running for 44 miles through such towns as Kenton, Hartly, Marydel, Henderson, Goldsboro, Greensboro, Denton, Ridgely and Easton on the Delmarva Peninsula. |
 | | -----The earliest proposal for a railroad to connect the Delaware Railroad main line and tap an area of the upper Eastern Shore of Maryland was the Maryland and Delaware Railroad, chartered on May 10, 1854 in Maryland and on February 13, 1857 in Delaware. |
 | | Construction of the Maryland & Delaware commenced on December 27, 1857 and by 1859 the line was graded and bridged as far as Greensboro, Maryland. |
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