| 1608 |
Captain John Smith explored the Chesapeake Bay including the Susquehanna River. |
| 1622 |
Edward Palmer receives a patent of land which is now known as Garrett Island
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| 1632 |
George Calvert is granted "Mary's Land", but his son, Cecilius, would receive the grant.
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| 1634 |
The Calverts arrive in Maryland on the "Ark" and the "Dove".
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| 1637 |
"Plantation" is built on Palmer's Island and becomes the first settlement in Cecil County
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| 1643 |
Fort Conquest is established on Palmer's Island.
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| 1666 |
The "Queen's Highway'' or Old Post Road is established.
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| 1674 |
Cecil County founded named in honor of Cecilius Calvert |
| 1695 |
Ferry boats were known to cross the Susquehanna at "Lower Ferry".
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| 1740 |
Circa, Stevenson's Tavern is built.
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| 1778 |
Col. Zebulon Hollingsworth procured boats at Perryville to ferry a large detachment of troops over the Susquehanna, after they marched to Perryville. |
| 1780 |
John and Elizabeth Rodgers purchase Stevenson's Tavern |
| 1788 |
Maryland becomes the seventh state.
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| 1795 |
George Gale purchased 100-acres of land on the east side of the Susquehanna near Watson’s (Garrett) Island and laid out a town called Chesapeake, a short distance above Perryville, which was incorporated by the General Assembly 24 December 1795. |
| 1813 |
The British set fire to Havre de Grace but spared Perryville. Instead they attacked nearby Principio Furnace, a primary cannon manufacturer in the United States, where Admiral Cockburn’s forces torched the buildings and destroyed all finished weapons they found. |
| 1837 |
The first steam ferry, "Susquehanna" was put in service on the Susquehanna River.
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| 1838 |
The Presbyterians conducted the first church service at Rodgers Tavern
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| 1845 |
In August of this year St. Mark’s Chapel near Perryville was built on land donated by the Misses Gale, consecrated and in 1846 Rev. Richard Whittingham Jr. was chosen by the rector as deacon and assistant minister threre. |
| 1861 |
Under orders of General George B. McClellan the old Stump plantation was overtaken by Federal forces and used as a Civil War Mule school to train mules for pulling wagons and teamsters for working with the animals. This property is now known as Perry Point. |
| 1866 |
The first railroad bridge to cross the Susquehanna is built by the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Railroad Company.
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| 1866 |
Perryville Methodist Episcopal Church is founded.
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| 1875 |
Harvesting of ice begins on the Susquehanna River.
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| 1880 |
Circa, the present Presbyterian church is built.
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| 1881 |
William Armstrong opens the foundry of Armstrong & Co. in Perryville.
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| 1882 |
Perryville becomes an incorporated Town.
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| 1883 |
The Eureka Fertilizer Company is founded. |
| 1886 |
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Bridge is completed across the Susquehanna.
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| 1900 |
Circa, A. H. Owens and Brother open a canning factory.
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| 1905 |
The Presbyterian Church is re-located to 710 Broad Street.
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| 1905 |
The Perryville Train Station is built.
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| 1906 |
The Pennsylvania Railroad constructs a new bridge over the Susquehanna River.
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| 1906 |
Fire destroys four ice houses and damages several more. |
| 1910 |
New double track railway bridge is completed across the Susquehanna River by the Baltimore and Ohio line. |
| 1923 |
State of Maryland purchases old "Double Deck" bridge across the Susquehanna River. |
| 1924 |
Armstrong Stove & Manufacturing Co., Inc., installs electricity in foundry.
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| 1936 |
24 employees of Perry Point VA Medical Center signed a charter to form a credit union which became Perry Point Federal Credit Union. |
| 1940 |
The Susquehanna toll bridge opens. |
| 1946 |
Miss Frances Jackson, of Perryville, a charter member of the now Perry Point VA Medical Center, returned home from a tour of duty in the WACS. |
| 1963 |
President John F. Kennedy cut the ribbon I-95 in Cecil County, 8 days prior to his assassination in Texas. |
| 1991 |
Passenger train service restored in Cecil County after the Perryville MARC train station, built in 1905, was restored and reopened. |
| 1993 |
Current Perry Point Federal Credit Union building constructed and opened. |
| 1997 |
Domonick Joseph Cifaldo was honored for 50 year membership in the Perryville Lions Club, and the Good Shepherd School in Perryville named their school hall, Cifaldo Hall in his honor, whilst then Governor William Donald Schaefer sent a notification proclaiming Cifaldo one of “Maryland’s Most Valuable Citizens.” On June 28 of that year the Maryland Municipal League honored Mr. Cifaldo for his 24 years of service as a Perryville Town Commissioner by inducting him into their Hall of Fame, the first person to achieve this distinction. |
| 1999 |
The Town of Perryville honored Domonick J. Cifaldo by dedicating the Domonick J. Cifaldo Community Center at 418 Elm Street in his honor. |
