CeremonyLocations

Tolchester Beach Bandstand

Tolchester Beach Bandstand was originally located at Tolchester Beach, a resort town and amusement park established in 1877, just north of Rock Hall, in Kent County, Maryland. Constructed to attract day-trippers traveling by steamboat from Baltimore and Washington, D.C, Tolchester Beach was part of a golden era of 19th century amusement parks. Today, the bandstand is one of the last few remaining structures from Tolchester Beach, which closed in 1962 and was later demolished.

Small Boat Shed

• Ceremony option for a reception on Navy Point

• Seats up to 175 guests

Navy Point

• Ceremony option for a reception in the Small Boat Shed

Hooper Strait Lighthouse

• Includes the deck under the Lighthouse overlooking the water

• Accommodate up to 60 seated or 75 standing guests

The 1879 Hooper Strait Lighthouse was originally built to light the way for boats passing through the shallow, dangerous shoals of Hooper Strait, a thoroughfare for boats bound from the Chesapeake Bay across Tangier Sound to Deal Island, or places along the Nanticoke and Wicomico Rivers. As a screwpile lighthouse, it is built on special iron pilings, which were tipped with a screw that could be turned into the muddy bottom of the Chesapeake Bay. Since 1966, CBMM has been the home of the lighthouse, which was originally scheduled for demolition, but rescued by the original founders of CBMM.

Ashley Cox