May 13, 2025 • 25 mins
Most of the conversations I’ve had for this podcast have been with representatives from counties, states or major cities. But I think it’s time we swing through a small town near my home. I live in Baltimore Maryland. I always say Baltimore is a major city but it kind of feels like a small town since it’s sandwiched between Philadelphia and Washington DC. We are part of an area called the 95 Corridor since the highway Interstate 95 runs right through the center of the major cities on the east coast.
There are a lot of great small towns scattered along that route in between the major cities. If you’re driving from Baltimore north to Philly, you could easily stop off in Perryville, MD. Perryville is a town just south of Delaware. It has a couple of big destinations: The Hollywood Casino and Great Wolf Lodge. I think most people know Perryville because of those spots. But Perryville has a lot to offer besides that. There’s lots of nature, some great food and a lot of Maryland history to check out.
Joining me for this week’s episode of Delightful Destinations is Ashley Hennessy. She’s the community development coordinator for the town of Perryville. I hope you enjoy our conversation.
There are a lot of great small towns scattered along that route in between the major cities. If you’re driving from Baltimore north to Philly, you could easily stop off in Perryville, MD. Perryville is a town just south of Delaware. It has a couple of big destinations: The Hollywood Casino and Great Wolf Lodge. I think most people know Perryville because of those spots. But Perryville has a lot to offer besides that. There’s lots of nature, some great food and a lot of Maryland history to check out.
Joining me for this week’s episode of Delightful Destinations is Ashley Hennessy. She’s the community development coordinator for the town of Perryville. I hope you enjoy our conversation.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hey, everyone, Welcome to Delightful Destinations. My name is Jeff
Saint Pierre and this is episode thirty one. If this
is your first time checking out the program, welcome, I
appreciate your time. Delightful Destinations is a show that I
created so I could talk to representatives from different locations
around the country and learn more about these beautiful places
that are just right all around us. I'm always looking
(00:21):
for an excuse to get away from home, and I
hope that this show will help inspire.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
You for your next vacation.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Most of the conversations I've had for this podcast so
far have been with representatives from counties, states, or major cities.
But I think it's time we swing through a small
town near my home. So I live in Baltimore, Maryland,
and I always say Baltimore is a major city, but
it kind of feels like a small town since it's
sandwich between Philadelphia and Washington, DC to other major metropolitan areas.
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Where part of an area called the I ninety five Corridor.
Since the highway Interstate ninety five runs right through the
center of all the major cities here on the East Coast,
there are a lot of great small towns scattered along
that route in between the major cities, and if you're
driving from Baltimore north to Philly, you could easily stop
off in Perryville, Maryland. Perryville's a town just south of Delaware.
It's got a couple of big destinations there. They've got
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the Hollywood Casino and Great Wolf Lodge. I think most
people probably know Perryville because of those spots, but Perryville
has a lot to offer besides that.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
There's tons of.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Nature, some great food, and a lot of Maryland history
to check out. Joining me for this week's episode of
Delightful Destinations, it's Ashley Hennessy. She's a community development coordinator
for the town of Perryville. I hope you enjoy our conversation.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Thank you so much for having us. It's great to
meet you too.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
I gotta tell you I've been to Perryville a couple
of different times. But the last time we did a
little weekend and we took our daughter, who at the
time was two years old. We went up to a
Great Wolf Lodge and spent some time there and we
had our first urgent care experience.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Because do you have kids, Ashley, Oh.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Not yet. I actually just got married two weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Oh well, congratulations on that. You have a lot of
fun to look forward to you in the marriage as
well as if you choose to start a family down
the line. But there's one story you will read if
you become a parent, and that is the no more
monkeys jumping on the bed story. And we were trying
to get our daughter to stop jumping on the bed,
and you know, as kids will do, did not listen
and we found ourselves in urgent care getting our first stitches.
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That a great.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Experience for your first time Perryville.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
But you know what, like she has no memory of it,
and now we can laugh about it, so it actually
is kind of a fun experience.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
You know, no harm, no foul kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
She's got like a tiny scar, but whatever, it's kind
of a funny story we can laugh about now. But
look all the fun you can have in Perryville.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Well, Ashley, let.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Me get like your elevator pitch right, Like you meet
somebody and you're telling them where you work, telling them
about your area, Like, tell me about Perryville.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Yeah, Perryville is a great little small town. We're just
right on the edge right before you hit Harford County
right before the bridge, so sometimes we get lost, but
our goal is definitely going to keep people.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
In here because it is very beautiful.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
We have a couple of different parks within Perryville too,
or Perryville Community Park is it's very massive and it's
also connected to the VA system as well. And within
the community park it is just filled wildlife. I mean,
we have bird enthusiasts that come out, like bird watching
groups that come out and they have a whole checklist
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of what they can find in our community park. And
we have so many deer too that we had to
start putting up signs to get people to stop feeding
them because they're just so friendly. They literally will come
up to your car. We have one town employee here
that she's a little bit guilty of that she visits
them every day. But that's just kind of what Perryville is.
It's just a very welcoming community that even the animals
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want to be here where Like I said, we're small town,
so community is.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Our big focus of the town.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
We do host free events throughout the whole year and
we're about to get started into those.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
So anything that the town does that I.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Prepare within my job it's free for the community, so
it's really great for them to come out and get
to have fun. So that also involves our visitors. So
you're just saying about Great Wolflage. You know, anybody from
Great Wolf, if they want a little break from a
water park one day, they can come down to our
downtown and maybe we have a free event going on,
or even we have three free museums as well.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
We're very history focused too.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
We have those museums, and we have a whole railroad background,
so trained enthusiasts too like to come and visit us.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
So in just a little town, we have a lot
going on.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
I remember when we did Great Wolf one night, we
decided to leave the hotel because, you know, as nice
as it is to have a lot of options there,
I also just can't sit in a hotel all day long.
So we went out and we went I can't think
of the name of the restaurant, but we went down
a road that was along the water where it looked
like there was a train track there, and we stopped
at a little place to have some food, and it was
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wonderful and I just remember thinking, like, this is so
great to get out and experience some of the area too.
While we're visiting this, you know, sort of resort if
you will. It was great to go out and experience
more of Perryville and see what the local community has
to offer.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Yeah, yeah, we have a lot of that again, but
that's all town field. We don't have a lot of
restaurants or businesses, but the ones that we do have
are really great. I think you were just mentioning maybe
one by the water that's near our Rogers Tavern Museum
and we're actually George Washington had stayed before. That's something
we have going on and we're very proud of as well.
But yeah, I mean our restaurants we have from Italians.
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We have a very famous sushi restaurant that everyone comes
from all over to come to go to, from Harford County,
even all the way to Delaware. I've heard people say, yeah,
that's the only reason why I know Perryville. But hey,
that's something. And we have breweries too that are pretty
famous and they have their own events. So yeah, again,
a little small town, but everyone has something unique to offer.
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I want to say within our restaurants and businesses.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Oh for sure.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
I mean I think in my time living in Maryland
over the last eighteen ish years. Most of it has
been spent living either down near DC or around Baltimore.
But I came from the Philadelphia area, so you know,
I used to drive up and down through the ninety
five Corridor and drive through Perryville. And my memory of
Perryville before visiting in person was very much like outdoor
z like lots of lots of space to explore and experience,
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and hearing you talk about it like, yeah, you've got
attractions like the casino, a great Wolf, and some museums,
but you also yeah, you mentioned the outdoor aspect of it,
like you try to get people outside to enjoy all
that Perryville has to offer.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Yeah, yeah, and back to the wildlife too, like even
right behind that Rogers Tavern Museum, we have our Lower
Ferry Peer and we actually have towns and university that
comes out and map turtles are an endangered species that
we have a lot of within our Susquehanna River, So
they come out, they go on their little canoes, and
they set up cameras and basking tables for them. We
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can monitor the turtles and make sure that we're keeping
up with our endangered species to make sure that they're okay.
So that's really cool too to have connections with places
like that.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
And that was just by chance too. I was out
in the park.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
We have a kiosks there that I update the flyers
in and I saw them getting their boats and going
out there, and I'm like.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Hey, what are you guys doing?
Speaker 4 (07:05):
And they told us the story. So a lot of things
I've learned in Perryville happened by chance, and you kind
of you're just at the right place at the right time.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
And again, small town, so it's easy to do that.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
So you really have to talk to our community members
and talk to the people and the visitors and you
learn a lot from them and a lot that you
didn't even know that was going on within the town,
Like the town has promoted to help save our endangered turtles,
but we didn't know that towns and university was hopping
on that. So it's really great and now we have
that connection with them as well. So that's another goal
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of my job too, is try to build more like
outreach community outreach, and we've had different businesses from across
Cecil County come out to us and enjoin us in
our events, but mostly our nonprofits too around the area.
Like we have my Voice Live for Thomas. We have
the Boys and Girls for the Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts.
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They always come out to our events and we allowed
them to fundraise and for our local schools they can
fundraise at the events. So yeah, any event that you attend,
or again just walking through town because we are a
big walking community too. You always have people walking their
dogs and or walking to find the nature and to
take pictures of those birds. You know, it's great to
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just just coincidentally meet people and start talking to them
and learning more about what Perryville has to offer. So
it's really it's been really cool within this job to
get to know the community because my background from before
I was just sitting in an office building and marketing
for a law and care company, so I didn't really
talk to anybody. I just talked to the customers and
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sometimes they weren't too happy about how their launch look
so that was never fun. So at least with this job,
I mean it has its ups and downs. Of course,
talking to community members. They're all going to have opinions
on things, but it's really important to get those opinions
and I can do the best I can, especially the
events or what I more have control over. So I
always talk to them and say, hey, we're looking for volunteers.
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You guys can always come out and be a part
of the events too, But any ideas that you have
for them or anything for community development, it's a free
for all to ask the community members of what they
would like to see in Perryville.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
I do want to talk about some of the events
that are coming up, some things that folks that aren't
from Perryville maybe want to get up there and experience
and try out for themselves. But I'm curious about you actually,
are you a native of Perryville.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
No, I actually came from Delaware, Okay.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
And my previous job was before and then I moved
to Elkton and.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
The job opened up here.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
So it's a way easier drive just to drive down
Route forty versus taking ninety five every day, and the
perks of working in such a beautiful place too.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
So oh, for sure.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Last week, my wife was on spring break, so we
decided to do a trip over to Kent County for
a little bit and just by the nature of you know,
the landscape of Maryland, we had to drive up and
over to get down, so we drove through some Perryville
from Elkton, and like, really, all that area up there
is just so beautiful that as we start talking about
the events, I hope people listening get up there and
experience some of these cool things that you have going
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on and really soak in what small town Maryland is
all about.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Yeah, and I think you experience that in every town
in Cecil County, because I feel like every town in
Cecil County is smaller in comparison to other states. Elkton
is a little bit bigger, but we all have our
own things going on. But it's really cool that all
the towns get together too during we have tourism meetings
and we can all brainstorm together there and we're all
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working together. It's never like we're competing with each other,
because that's the goal of just bringing tourism into visitors
into Cecil County, but again to really focus on our
residence within the community and hearing from the other towns
of what they're doing and it just gives us ideas
of what we could do and vice versas. So it's
really nice to have the open relationship with the other
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towns as well.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
All right, so we're getting into spring here and people
are starting to get outside, starting to enjoy being out
there together again. What are some cool things that start
here in the spring for Perry Phil.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Yeah, we're very excited.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Every May through October, we have two events that go on.
The first that's going to be a coming up they
third is going to be our first event is our
first Saturday's farm and Craft Market, and that is down
at well what is right now our Lower Ferry Park,
but we'll get into that. It's going to be changed
to a roundhouse park. But every first Saturday May through October,
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we have our farm and Craft market where we have
local farmers and local vendors come out. They do crafts,
they have local produce and eggs and fresh items for
our community to enjoy. So every right now, it's just
every First Saturday May through October. But the goal could
be if I could get a few farmers, maybe even
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like five, that could be committed to set up every week,
we can change the direction of that market. But right now,
the market, we have farm and craft vendors and we
do have a couple of food trucks that join us
throughout sometimes we have yard games laid out and it's
just really nice to enjoy in the spring and summer months.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
It's a little even better in the cooler.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Months because sometimes the summer gets a little bit brutal
with the heat. But our vendors are committed to be
out there and make money, so we definitely would hope
that everyone else would be the same. We also have
a lot of our restaurants right near there too, so
back to the walking community, they can go eat and
then usually they just step out right outside from eating
and they get to enjoy a market. And every third Friday,
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we have our Third Friday Cruisers in that same park.
That is also May through October. It's four to seven pm,
and that's a really cool, really relaxed event. We have
a bandshell down at the park and we have a
band come out and play every month. And the guys
with our classic cars, let me tell you, they love
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those cars.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
They love to show.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
So what they do, it's free registration. They just have
to fill up a little bit of paperwork when they
get there, but it's free and they can come and
they just pull up their cars right there on the grass.
So that's pretty unique to us to a lot of
car shows. One they cost money to they are just
on the street or in a parking lot, but the
guys really like to be on the grass because then
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they can put their camping chairs out and just all
sit in circle.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
We have the Scouts come out and sell.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
Hot dogs, so again bringing in those community members into
every event and everyone just gets the laid back enjoy
the music.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
We give out free trophies and prizes for our winners.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
We have a Mayor's pick for a car, we do
a community pick for the car, and then we have
sponsors too that come out and choose the car and
give out like gift cards or merchandise from their places
for these winners. And yeah, these guys get very excited
to show off their cars, and that's another thing to
piggyback off event. And it's all about building those relationships
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with the community with our events. Because our car cruisers
they're mostly classic cars. People can bring newer cars, but
majority is classic cars.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
So for our Buu.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Bash that we have in the fall and our Christmas
Parade that we have in December, those guys make up
a majority of those things. So it's imagine those classic
cars all dressed up in Halloween the corps and they
open their trunks and decorate them and give out candy.
And then for the parade, we have a whole section
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for them to line up behind each other and drive
through the parade.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
So it's really cool that really those.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Three events and those guys can all show up and
come out to them.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
That's going to come back May through October.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Every third Friday for our third Friday Cruisers four to
seven pm. And those are our annual events that happen
in addition to that trunk and the Christmas in the Park,
but we also throw a few more events in there.
We're gonna have outdoor movie nights at that park.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Two.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
Our first one is gonna be June thirteenth. Within that
band show, we put up a big movie screen and
it's completely free. Everyone can come out and receive free popcorn.
We try to get local businesses to come out and
support those events as well. So our movie nights we
were talking about great with Flage again. They come out,
they bring Wolfy and he walks around and gives all
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the kids a high five, and we have a DJ
play at the same time, so it's not just a
movie night.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
It's another it's like a party night during the summer.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
We host it like right when school ends to give
those kids something to do, and then we'll host another
one in the fall too, and it'll be fall related
or spooky related, and we switch it up.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
I love that you've got all these different options to
keep the community active and to get out there and
just get the folks mingling around with each other. I
think there's something special about a small town and that
it's got that cool feeld. But I also feel like
sometimes small towns can feel very secluded for residents because
they aren't really on top of each other the same
way you might be in a city or in a
larger town. So you've got to have events like this
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to get people to come out and be like, hey, neighbor,
like remember me, We love each other, we like to
hang out. So I think it's great to have these opportunities.
And I am always a big fan of a good
farmer's market craft fair kind of thing. I love that
idea so much. But before we move on, where do
people go if they want to find out more information
about this, or if they didn't have a pen right
now and they couldn't write out the information.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Where's the best place to find it?
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Yeah, we have a couple of options.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
If you just type in Perryville, Maryland just on Google,
our main town website pops up. Or if you're on Facebook,
you could do the same, just type Perryville, Maryland. So
if you go on Facebook, I'm constantly sharing all the
events and updates on that page. So you could just
go on to our main Facebook page click events, and
all of our events.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Will be there.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
If you go to our main website, usually in the
front of the website we show any upcoming events, but
there's also a tab to find the count of events
as well.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
All Right, so we've talked about a few different things
that go on throughout the spring and the summer. But
you've also mentioned in passing here as we've been talking
about Perryville, some museums, some different spots to check out.
I would love to get a little bit more info
about those, because I think people in this general Maryland
area have probably heard of places like Hollywood Casino or
Great Wolf Lodge. They're a little bit bigger entities, if
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you will, they get advertised a little bit more. But
there's also these cool small town attractions, Like you mentioned
the Rogers Tavern Museum, so tell you more about that.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Yeah, the Rogers Tarron Museum.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
The town now owns it, and it's where George Washington
stayed at one point. But from the tavern itself from
the late sixteen hundreds to the eighteen hundreds, it hosted
a place for it supplied transportation, food, rest, and a
sense of community for people passing through at the time.
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And again, George Washington was a big he was a
frequent flyer of the tavern.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
So that's pretty cool that you went there.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
And the museum is open Fridays and Saturdays ten thirty
to five thirty pm. And again, all of our museums
are free, so when you go in there, you can
actually feel like you're stepping into the tavern and kind
of pretend like you were one of those travelers back
in the day. We have the old fireplace, we have
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games set up that are the games back in the time.
There's bedrooms set up too, so you could actually look
into what you would have walked into if you were
actually staying in the room. It's not an operating tavern itself.
Right now, we possibly might have plans in the future
to bring that back a little bit in the basement
and host different events within the tavern to give it
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a little fresh feel. But we're also going to have
it as our museum as well. That's free to walk
in to. They explore the history also.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
I know you we talked about the history of railroad
in Perryville and you've got the Perryville Railroad Museum as well.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Yeah, that's within our train station here.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
They with Mark. It was actually volunteer members of They
started their own chapter in ninety six. I think they're
up to one hundred members now for this Perryville Railroad
Chapter and they were volunteers and they really wanted to
showcase all of their own collection, so they partnered with
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Mark to create this museum that's within the train station.
They have two different rooms in there. You walk into
a room and there's a big train scale layout and
they can they can turn it on so it goes around,
and then there's an exhibit room too that has a
bunch of photographs. These train enthusiasts, the chapter members, they
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loved taking pictures of the trains and all throughout they
have how many years combined of working in the railroad industry,
so it is pretty cool to see their pictures throughout
their time and their travels. But there's there's plenty of
pictures within the Perryville train station and what it used
to to look like, and even to piggyback off of
that too. Our I work at town Hall and in
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the back of our town hall you can see the
train tracks. I'm not surprised if you hear them during
this interview at all. We have trains go high all
the time. Some of those guys are out back practically
at all hours, just waiting for the train to come
and taking pictures of the trains that come right by
town hall. They know the schedule and when they're coming,
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so it's pretty cool that those guys too, when they
do that, they have their own chapter and they do
their own meetings and newsletters and things like that. So
those photographs just from the back of town hall end
up on.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Those websites or newsletters.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
And it's also creating the history now, so that can
add on to the museum of what it is today.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
And I know you also have the VA Veterans Museum
too at the grist Mill in Perry Point.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Can you tell me a little bit more about that.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Yes, so perry Point technically isn't Perryville, but it is
connected to us. The VA, the Maryland Healthcare System operated
this Veterans museum and it's located in a historical gristmill
on Perry Point. It's within their VA Medical Center campus.
And the grismill is so beautiful to look at. Is
right on the water. You practically go to this window
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right in the museum and you just all you see
is water. Good thing the windows shut closed, because otherwise
you could fall right into the water from there.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
But it's just that site. It's beautiful.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
The gristmill was built in seventeen fifty and if you
look at the walls, you can actually see they're the
original walls and you can see horse hair coming out
of them of how the walls were built back then.
And they didn't want to change it, just to preserve
the historical value to it. And it's one of the
oldest structures within the entire VA system. They don't market
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it too much, but they like to say sometimes that
it's haunted as well.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Of course, I think every old place likes to say that, right.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Oh yeah, from that window.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
I was just talking about they say if there's any
boaters in the water, and if they look at that window,
the boaters will say that they see a little boy
in the window just waving to them.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
So everything seems nice. Nice ghost counters.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Well, that's good.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Nice ghosts are always better, right, Ashley. A lot of
great stuff we've talked about today, And before we wrap up,
there was something that you mentioned earlier that you have
this park, Lower Ferry Park that's going to be renamed
around House Park.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
I'd love to learn a little bit more about that.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
We're renaming its around House Park to bring back that
railroad history and to make people aware of the railroad history.
I mean again, you can look at us, you could
see the train tracks everywhere you see the train, but
people don't realize the history of it. So by renaming
the park, it's going to give us that opportunity to
create signage with the history of it so people can
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learn that actually that park was an operated freight yard
at one point in the nineteenth century to the mid
twentieth century. So right now where we get to have
all of our fun events and listen to music and
have cars, it was a freight yard at one time
with railroad tracks, and we just built a new playground that.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Was perfectly ready for our Easter egg hunt that took
place last Friday. The park was writing on Thursday. It
was great.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
It was the highlight of the Easter egg hunt for sure.
So the park is open. We just haven't had a
ribbon cunning ceremony yet, so that'll be coming this spring
as well. But the playground itself is actually a shaped
like a train, so the kids can they're gonna have
fun on it, and you know, hopefully their parents or
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they can read the signs to learn about the history.
But either way, it's just a great addition to that
park itself too, so we get to cherish that history
even more. So it'll be called Roundhouse Park instead of
Lower Ferry Park.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Well, Ashley, it sounds like there's so much going on
up there in Perryville. This conversation went in a few
different twists and turns, and I'm very excited we took
because I'm just glad to learn more about this town
that we have just north of Baltimore, just south of
the Delaware border. Really great opportunity for people to get
out there, especially in the spring and summer to enjoy
some outdoors, try these restaurants out there. I mean, just
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a lot of cool stuff going on in Perryville. Thank
you so much, Ashley.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
Yeah, thank you so much for having me and letting
us talk about Perryville's very exciting one.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
More time before I let you go. Where do people
go to find out more info maybe start planning their trip.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
Yeah, you can just look up Perryville, Maryland and find
us on our Facebook page with that name, or you
can just google Perryville, Maryland and Perryville Maryland dot org
page will come up as our town.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Perfect well, Ashley had to see the community Development coordinator
for the Town of Perryville. Thank you so much for
your time. This is great and I wish you the
best of luck and everything moving forward.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Thank you to Ashley Hennessya for her time. I hope
you swing through Perryville the next time you find yourself
in northern Maryland. And thank you to all of you
for listening to delightful destinations. Until next time, you will
Speaker 4 (25:01):
St
Hey, everyone, Welcome to Delightful Destinations. My name is Jeff
Saint Pierre and this is episode thirty one. If this
is your first time checking out the program, welcome, I
appreciate your time. Delightful Destinations is a show that I
created so I could talk to representatives from different locations
around the country and learn more about these beautiful places
that are just right all around us. I'm always looking
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for an excuse to get away from home, and I
hope that this show will help inspire.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
You for your next vacation.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Most of the conversations I've had for this podcast so
far have been with representatives from counties, states, or major cities.
But I think it's time we swing through a small
town near my home. So I live in Baltimore, Maryland,
and I always say Baltimore is a major city, but
it kind of feels like a small town since it's
sandwich between Philadelphia and Washington, DC to other major metropolitan areas.
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Where part of an area called the I ninety five Corridor.
Since the highway Interstate ninety five runs right through the
center of all the major cities here on the East Coast,
there are a lot of great small towns scattered along
that route in between the major cities, and if you're
driving from Baltimore north to Philly, you could easily stop
off in Perryville, Maryland. Perryville's a town just south of Delaware.
It's got a couple of big destinations there. They've got
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the Hollywood Casino and Great Wolf Lodge. I think most
people probably know Perryville because of those spots, but Perryville
has a lot to offer besides that.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
There's tons of.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Nature, some great food, and a lot of Maryland history
to check out. Joining me for this week's episode of
Delightful Destinations, it's Ashley Hennessy. She's a community development coordinator
for the town of Perryville. I hope you enjoy our conversation.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Thank you so much for having us. It's great to
meet you too.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
I gotta tell you I've been to Perryville a couple
of different times. But the last time we did a
little weekend and we took our daughter, who at the
time was two years old. We went up to a
Great Wolf Lodge and spent some time there and we
had our first urgent care experience.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Because do you have kids, Ashley, Oh.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Not yet. I actually just got married two weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Oh well, congratulations on that. You have a lot of
fun to look forward to you in the marriage as
well as if you choose to start a family down
the line. But there's one story you will read if
you become a parent, and that is the no more
monkeys jumping on the bed story. And we were trying
to get our daughter to stop jumping on the bed,
and you know, as kids will do, did not listen
and we found ourselves in urgent care getting our first stitches.
(02:15):
That a great.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Experience for your first time Perryville.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
But you know what, like she has no memory of it,
and now we can laugh about it, so it actually
is kind of a fun experience.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
You know, no harm, no foul kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
She's got like a tiny scar, but whatever, it's kind
of a funny story we can laugh about now. But
look all the fun you can have in Perryville.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Well, Ashley, let.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Me get like your elevator pitch right, Like you meet
somebody and you're telling them where you work, telling them
about your area, Like, tell me about Perryville.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Yeah, Perryville is a great little small town. We're just
right on the edge right before you hit Harford County
right before the bridge, so sometimes we get lost, but
our goal is definitely going to keep people.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
In here because it is very beautiful.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
We have a couple of different parks within Perryville too,
or Perryville Community Park is it's very massive and it's
also connected to the VA system as well. And within
the community park it is just filled wildlife. I mean,
we have bird enthusiasts that come out, like bird watching
groups that come out and they have a whole checklist
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of what they can find in our community park. And
we have so many deer too that we had to
start putting up signs to get people to stop feeding
them because they're just so friendly. They literally will come
up to your car. We have one town employee here
that she's a little bit guilty of that she visits
them every day. But that's just kind of what Perryville is.
It's just a very welcoming community that even the animals
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want to be here where Like I said, we're small town,
so community is.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Our big focus of the town.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
We do host free events throughout the whole year and
we're about to get started into those.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
So anything that the town does that I.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Prepare within my job it's free for the community, so
it's really great for them to come out and get
to have fun. So that also involves our visitors. So
you're just saying about Great Wolflage. You know, anybody from
Great Wolf, if they want a little break from a
water park one day, they can come down to our
downtown and maybe we have a free event going on,
or even we have three free museums as well.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
We're very history focused too.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
We have those museums, and we have a whole railroad background,
so trained enthusiasts too like to come and visit us.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
So in just a little town, we have a lot
going on.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
I remember when we did Great Wolf one night, we
decided to leave the hotel because, you know, as nice
as it is to have a lot of options there,
I also just can't sit in a hotel all day long.
So we went out and we went I can't think
of the name of the restaurant, but we went down
a road that was along the water where it looked
like there was a train track there, and we stopped
at a little place to have some food, and it was
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wonderful and I just remember thinking, like, this is so
great to get out and experience some of the area too.
While we're visiting this, you know, sort of resort if
you will. It was great to go out and experience
more of Perryville and see what the local community has
to offer.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Yeah, yeah, we have a lot of that again, but
that's all town field. We don't have a lot of
restaurants or businesses, but the ones that we do have
are really great. I think you were just mentioning maybe
one by the water that's near our Rogers Tavern Museum
and we're actually George Washington had stayed before. That's something
we have going on and we're very proud of as well.
But yeah, I mean our restaurants we have from Italians.
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We have a very famous sushi restaurant that everyone comes
from all over to come to go to, from Harford County,
even all the way to Delaware. I've heard people say, yeah,
that's the only reason why I know Perryville. But hey,
that's something. And we have breweries too that are pretty
famous and they have their own events. So yeah, again,
a little small town, but everyone has something unique to offer.
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I want to say within our restaurants and businesses.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Oh for sure.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
I mean I think in my time living in Maryland
over the last eighteen ish years. Most of it has
been spent living either down near DC or around Baltimore.
But I came from the Philadelphia area, so you know,
I used to drive up and down through the ninety
five Corridor and drive through Perryville. And my memory of
Perryville before visiting in person was very much like outdoor
z like lots of lots of space to explore and experience,
(06:09):
and hearing you talk about it like, yeah, you've got
attractions like the casino, a great Wolf, and some museums,
but you also yeah, you mentioned the outdoor aspect of it,
like you try to get people outside to enjoy all
that Perryville has to offer.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Yeah, yeah, and back to the wildlife too, like even
right behind that Rogers Tavern Museum, we have our Lower
Ferry Peer and we actually have towns and university that
comes out and map turtles are an endangered species that
we have a lot of within our Susquehanna River, So
they come out, they go on their little canoes, and
they set up cameras and basking tables for them. We
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can monitor the turtles and make sure that we're keeping
up with our endangered species to make sure that they're okay.
So that's really cool too to have connections with places
like that.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
And that was just by chance too. I was out
in the park.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
We have a kiosks there that I update the flyers
in and I saw them getting their boats and going
out there, and I'm like.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Hey, what are you guys doing?
Speaker 4 (07:05):
And they told us the story. So a lot of things
I've learned in Perryville happened by chance, and you kind
of you're just at the right place at the right time.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
And again, small town, so it's easy to do that.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
So you really have to talk to our community members
and talk to the people and the visitors and you
learn a lot from them and a lot that you
didn't even know that was going on within the town,
Like the town has promoted to help save our endangered turtles,
but we didn't know that towns and university was hopping
on that. So it's really great and now we have
that connection with them as well. So that's another goal
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of my job too, is try to build more like
outreach community outreach, and we've had different businesses from across
Cecil County come out to us and enjoin us in
our events, but mostly our nonprofits too around the area.
Like we have my Voice Live for Thomas. We have
the Boys and Girls for the Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts.
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They always come out to our events and we allowed
them to fundraise and for our local schools they can
fundraise at the events. So yeah, any event that you attend,
or again just walking through town because we are a
big walking community too. You always have people walking their
dogs and or walking to find the nature and to
take pictures of those birds. You know, it's great to
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just just coincidentally meet people and start talking to them
and learning more about what Perryville has to offer. So
it's really it's been really cool within this job to
get to know the community because my background from before
I was just sitting in an office building and marketing
for a law and care company, so I didn't really
talk to anybody. I just talked to the customers and
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sometimes they weren't too happy about how their launch look
so that was never fun. So at least with this job,
I mean it has its ups and downs. Of course,
talking to community members. They're all going to have opinions
on things, but it's really important to get those opinions
and I can do the best I can, especially the
events or what I more have control over. So I
always talk to them and say, hey, we're looking for volunteers.
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You guys can always come out and be a part
of the events too, But any ideas that you have
for them or anything for community development, it's a free
for all to ask the community members of what they
would like to see in Perryville.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
I do want to talk about some of the events
that are coming up, some things that folks that aren't
from Perryville maybe want to get up there and experience
and try out for themselves. But I'm curious about you actually,
are you a native of Perryville.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
No, I actually came from Delaware, Okay.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
And my previous job was before and then I moved
to Elkton and.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
The job opened up here.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
So it's a way easier drive just to drive down
Route forty versus taking ninety five every day, and the
perks of working in such a beautiful place too.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
So oh, for sure.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Last week, my wife was on spring break, so we
decided to do a trip over to Kent County for
a little bit and just by the nature of you know,
the landscape of Maryland, we had to drive up and
over to get down, so we drove through some Perryville
from Elkton, and like, really, all that area up there
is just so beautiful that as we start talking about
the events, I hope people listening get up there and
experience some of these cool things that you have going
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on and really soak in what small town Maryland is
all about.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Yeah, and I think you experience that in every town
in Cecil County, because I feel like every town in
Cecil County is smaller in comparison to other states. Elkton
is a little bit bigger, but we all have our
own things going on. But it's really cool that all
the towns get together too during we have tourism meetings
and we can all brainstorm together there and we're all
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working together. It's never like we're competing with each other,
because that's the goal of just bringing tourism into visitors
into Cecil County, but again to really focus on our
residence within the community and hearing from the other towns
of what they're doing and it just gives us ideas
of what we could do and vice versas. So it's
really nice to have the open relationship with the other
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towns as well.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
All right, so we're getting into spring here and people
are starting to get outside, starting to enjoy being out
there together again. What are some cool things that start
here in the spring for Perry Phil.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Yeah, we're very excited.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Every May through October, we have two events that go on.
The first that's going to be a coming up they
third is going to be our first event is our
first Saturday's farm and Craft Market, and that is down
at well what is right now our Lower Ferry Park,
but we'll get into that. It's going to be changed
to a roundhouse park. But every first Saturday May through October,
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we have our farm and Craft market where we have
local farmers and local vendors come out. They do crafts,
they have local produce and eggs and fresh items for
our community to enjoy. So every right now, it's just
every First Saturday May through October. But the goal could
be if I could get a few farmers, maybe even
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like five, that could be committed to set up every week,
we can change the direction of that market. But right now,
the market, we have farm and craft vendors and we
do have a couple of food trucks that join us
throughout sometimes we have yard games laid out and it's
just really nice to enjoy in the spring and summer months.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
It's a little even better in the cooler.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Months because sometimes the summer gets a little bit brutal
with the heat. But our vendors are committed to be
out there and make money, so we definitely would hope
that everyone else would be the same. We also have
a lot of our restaurants right near there too, so
back to the walking community, they can go eat and
then usually they just step out right outside from eating
and they get to enjoy a market. And every third Friday,
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we have our Third Friday Cruisers in that same park.
That is also May through October. It's four to seven pm,
and that's a really cool, really relaxed event. We have
a bandshell down at the park and we have a
band come out and play every month. And the guys
with our classic cars, let me tell you, they love
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those cars.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
They love to show.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
So what they do, it's free registration. They just have
to fill up a little bit of paperwork when they
get there, but it's free and they can come and
they just pull up their cars right there on the grass.
So that's pretty unique to us to a lot of
car shows. One they cost money to they are just
on the street or in a parking lot, but the
guys really like to be on the grass because then
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they can put their camping chairs out and just all
sit in circle.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
We have the Scouts come out and sell.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
Hot dogs, so again bringing in those community members into
every event and everyone just gets the laid back enjoy
the music.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
We give out free trophies and prizes for our winners.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
We have a Mayor's pick for a car, we do
a community pick for the car, and then we have
sponsors too that come out and choose the car and
give out like gift cards or merchandise from their places
for these winners. And yeah, these guys get very excited
to show off their cars, and that's another thing to
piggyback off event. And it's all about building those relationships
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with the community with our events. Because our car cruisers
they're mostly classic cars. People can bring newer cars, but
majority is classic cars.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
So for our Buu.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Bash that we have in the fall and our Christmas
Parade that we have in December, those guys make up
a majority of those things. So it's imagine those classic
cars all dressed up in Halloween the corps and they
open their trunks and decorate them and give out candy.
And then for the parade, we have a whole section
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for them to line up behind each other and drive
through the parade.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
So it's really cool that really those.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Three events and those guys can all show up and
come out to them.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
That's going to come back May through October.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Every third Friday for our third Friday Cruisers four to
seven pm. And those are our annual events that happen
in addition to that trunk and the Christmas in the Park,
but we also throw a few more events in there.
We're gonna have outdoor movie nights at that park.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Two.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
Our first one is gonna be June thirteenth. Within that
band show, we put up a big movie screen and
it's completely free. Everyone can come out and receive free popcorn.
We try to get local businesses to come out and
support those events as well. So our movie nights we
were talking about great with Flage again. They come out,
they bring Wolfy and he walks around and gives all
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the kids a high five, and we have a DJ
play at the same time, so it's not just a
movie night.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
It's another it's like a party night during the summer.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
We host it like right when school ends to give
those kids something to do, and then we'll host another
one in the fall too, and it'll be fall related
or spooky related, and we switch it up.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
I love that you've got all these different options to
keep the community active and to get out there and
just get the folks mingling around with each other. I
think there's something special about a small town and that
it's got that cool feeld. But I also feel like
sometimes small towns can feel very secluded for residents because
they aren't really on top of each other the same
way you might be in a city or in a
larger town. So you've got to have events like this
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to get people to come out and be like, hey, neighbor,
like remember me, We love each other, we like to
hang out. So I think it's great to have these opportunities.
And I am always a big fan of a good
farmer's market craft fair kind of thing. I love that
idea so much. But before we move on, where do
people go if they want to find out more information
about this, or if they didn't have a pen right
now and they couldn't write out the information.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Where's the best place to find it?
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Yeah, we have a couple of options.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
If you just type in Perryville, Maryland just on Google,
our main town website pops up. Or if you're on Facebook,
you could do the same, just type Perryville, Maryland. So
if you go on Facebook, I'm constantly sharing all the
events and updates on that page. So you could just
go on to our main Facebook page click events, and
all of our events.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Will be there.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
If you go to our main website, usually in the
front of the website we show any upcoming events, but
there's also a tab to find the count of events
as well.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
All Right, so we've talked about a few different things
that go on throughout the spring and the summer. But
you've also mentioned in passing here as we've been talking
about Perryville, some museums, some different spots to check out.
I would love to get a little bit more info
about those, because I think people in this general Maryland
area have probably heard of places like Hollywood Casino or
Great Wolf Lodge. They're a little bit bigger entities, if
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you will, they get advertised a little bit more. But
there's also these cool small town attractions, Like you mentioned
the Rogers Tavern Museum, so tell you more about that.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Yeah, the Rogers Tarron Museum.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
The town now owns it, and it's where George Washington
stayed at one point. But from the tavern itself from
the late sixteen hundreds to the eighteen hundreds, it hosted
a place for it supplied transportation, food, rest, and a
sense of community for people passing through at the time.
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And again, George Washington was a big he was a
frequent flyer of the tavern.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
So that's pretty cool that you went there.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
And the museum is open Fridays and Saturdays ten thirty
to five thirty pm. And again, all of our museums
are free, so when you go in there, you can
actually feel like you're stepping into the tavern and kind
of pretend like you were one of those travelers back
in the day. We have the old fireplace, we have
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games set up that are the games back in the time.
There's bedrooms set up too, so you could actually look
into what you would have walked into if you were
actually staying in the room. It's not an operating tavern itself.
Right now, we possibly might have plans in the future
to bring that back a little bit in the basement
and host different events within the tavern to give it
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a little fresh feel. But we're also going to have
it as our museum as well. That's free to walk
in to. They explore the history also.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
I know you we talked about the history of railroad
in Perryville and you've got the Perryville Railroad Museum as well.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Yeah, that's within our train station here.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
They with Mark. It was actually volunteer members of They
started their own chapter in ninety six. I think they're
up to one hundred members now for this Perryville Railroad
Chapter and they were volunteers and they really wanted to
showcase all of their own collection, so they partnered with
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Mark to create this museum that's within the train station.
They have two different rooms in there. You walk into
a room and there's a big train scale layout and
they can they can turn it on so it goes around,
and then there's an exhibit room too that has a
bunch of photographs. These train enthusiasts, the chapter members, they
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loved taking pictures of the trains and all throughout they
have how many years combined of working in the railroad industry,
so it is pretty cool to see their pictures throughout
their time and their travels. But there's there's plenty of
pictures within the Perryville train station and what it used
to to look like, and even to piggyback off of
that too. Our I work at town Hall and in
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the back of our town hall you can see the
train tracks. I'm not surprised if you hear them during
this interview at all. We have trains go high all
the time. Some of those guys are out back practically
at all hours, just waiting for the train to come
and taking pictures of the trains that come right by
town hall. They know the schedule and when they're coming,
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so it's pretty cool that those guys too, when they
do that, they have their own chapter and they do
their own meetings and newsletters and things like that. So
those photographs just from the back of town hall end
up on.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Those websites or newsletters.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
And it's also creating the history now, so that can
add on to the museum of what it is today.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
And I know you also have the VA Veterans Museum
too at the grist Mill in Perry Point.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Can you tell me a little bit more about that.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Yes, so perry Point technically isn't Perryville, but it is
connected to us. The VA, the Maryland Healthcare System operated
this Veterans museum and it's located in a historical gristmill
on Perry Point. It's within their VA Medical Center campus.
And the grismill is so beautiful to look at. Is
right on the water. You practically go to this window
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right in the museum and you just all you see
is water. Good thing the windows shut closed, because otherwise
you could fall right into the water from there.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
But it's just that site. It's beautiful.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
The gristmill was built in seventeen fifty and if you
look at the walls, you can actually see they're the
original walls and you can see horse hair coming out
of them of how the walls were built back then.
And they didn't want to change it, just to preserve
the historical value to it. And it's one of the
oldest structures within the entire VA system. They don't market
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it too much, but they like to say sometimes that
it's haunted as well.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Of course, I think every old place likes to say that, right.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Oh yeah, from that window.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
I was just talking about they say if there's any
boaters in the water, and if they look at that window,
the boaters will say that they see a little boy
in the window just waving to them.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
So everything seems nice. Nice ghost counters.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Well, that's good.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Nice ghosts are always better, right, Ashley. A lot of
great stuff we've talked about today, And before we wrap up,
there was something that you mentioned earlier that you have
this park, Lower Ferry Park that's going to be renamed
around House Park.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
I'd love to learn a little bit more about that.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
We're renaming its around House Park to bring back that
railroad history and to make people aware of the railroad history.
I mean again, you can look at us, you could
see the train tracks everywhere you see the train, but
people don't realize the history of it. So by renaming
the park, it's going to give us that opportunity to
create signage with the history of it so people can
(22:47):
learn that actually that park was an operated freight yard
at one point in the nineteenth century to the mid
twentieth century. So right now where we get to have
all of our fun events and listen to music and
have cars, it was a freight yard at one time
with railroad tracks, and we just built a new playground that.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Was perfectly ready for our Easter egg hunt that took
place last Friday. The park was writing on Thursday. It
was great.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
It was the highlight of the Easter egg hunt for sure.
So the park is open. We just haven't had a
ribbon cunning ceremony yet, so that'll be coming this spring
as well. But the playground itself is actually a shaped
like a train, so the kids can they're gonna have
fun on it, and you know, hopefully their parents or
(23:39):
they can read the signs to learn about the history.
But either way, it's just a great addition to that
park itself too, so we get to cherish that history
even more. So it'll be called Roundhouse Park instead of
Lower Ferry Park.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Well, Ashley, it sounds like there's so much going on
up there in Perryville. This conversation went in a few
different twists and turns, and I'm very excited we took
because I'm just glad to learn more about this town
that we have just north of Baltimore, just south of
the Delaware border. Really great opportunity for people to get
out there, especially in the spring and summer to enjoy
some outdoors, try these restaurants out there. I mean, just
(24:11):
a lot of cool stuff going on in Perryville. Thank
you so much, Ashley.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
Yeah, thank you so much for having me and letting
us talk about Perryville's very exciting one.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
More time before I let you go. Where do people
go to find out more info maybe start planning their trip.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
Yeah, you can just look up Perryville, Maryland and find
us on our Facebook page with that name, or you
can just google Perryville, Maryland and Perryville Maryland dot org
page will come up as our town.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Perfect well, Ashley had to see the community Development coordinator
for the Town of Perryville. Thank you so much for
your time. This is great and I wish you the
best of luck and everything moving forward.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Thank you to Ashley Hennessya for her time. I hope
you swing through Perryville the next time you find yourself
in northern Maryland. And thank you to all of you
for listening to delightful destinations. Until next time, you will
Speaker 4 (25:01):
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