Evening capital. [volume] (Annapolis, Md.) 1922-1981, 1923-02-07
Interesting History

Interesting History
The Court in its opinion. makes in
teresting references to the history of
tits section. 1t seems that the tract
OF. land known as THE President"
which is now a part of the village of
Eastport, was sold in July. 1868. to
the Mutual Building Association of
Annapolis. This association then
proceeded to develop and sub-divide
This land into building lots, the sur
voy and plat thereof having been
made by John .Duvall, then a we'll
known surveyor OF the county. which
plat is dated September, 1868. and
from that day to the present is looked
to as the guide to all land in that
part of Eastport. In 1876, the late
Gottlieb Feldmeyer purchased lots
Nos. lis, 119. 120 and 121. the exact
lines of which lots are shown upon
Duvalls plat, and lot No. 81 being the
lot adjacent to the sand-bar near the
Back Creek bridge location.
I'm 1885," the Courts opinion
says, "a number of public spirited
citizens, led by the late John Wiri
Randall. petitioned the County Com
missioners of Anne Arundel County
to give the public more direct route
to Bay Ridge, which road in leaving
Annapolis would cross the Eastport
bridge, through the village of East
port, along Fifth street to this sand
bar, dividing the waters of Back
Creek from the waters of Chesapeake
Bay, and then byAa bridge across the
narrow inlet running between Back
Creek and the Chesapeake Bay to the
farm then known as '.The Eareckson
Farm" and thence along the bay
shore to Bay Ridge" In pursuance
of an act of the Legislature of 1886.
the County Commissioners. under
date of May "a. 1886, obtained from
the Mutual Building Association a
deed to a right of way and a strip of
land at the proposed Eastport ter
minus of said bridge and 'also right
of way over strip of land thirty feet
in width extending from the terminus
of said bridge to the waters or shore
line of Chesapeake Bay, until the
westernmost line of said strip of land
intersects Fifth street at the corner of
Lot No. 121. now owned by Gottlieb
Feldmeyer. according to the plat or
survey of Horn Point made by John
Duvall. Esq. September 80. 1865"
In further reference to the location
OF the road,th Court says: ITO say
that the County Commissioners To-
Gated and attempted to build this road.
along the east side of this bar. and
that the late John Writ Randall plan
ned and supervised such work. where
it could not possibly Withstand an
easterly wind without a cement wall
% hold it in place. is hardly doing
'nstice to the memory of the careful,
prudent men engaged in this work,
and especially Mr. Randall, so per-
fectly familiar with every acre of
land within the vicinity OF Annapolis.
as we'll as the waters adjoining the
same"
Summary OF Courts Opinion
The conclusions reached by the
Court are summed up as follows:
Indeed, according to the conten-
ions of the plaintiffs. as disclosed i'm
their Bill, and the answer of the de-
PENDANTS, that they have. never OBJ
iected to the plaintiffs using this
road, and only locked it when they
did for the purpose of preventing per-
sons stealing their sand, there seems
to be little for the Court to decide, |
except to enjoin the Obstruction of |
his road from its intersection with |
Fifth street, and running between the |
two oyster houses built upon the sand
Sar, to point where the north abut-
nent of the bridge once stood. The |
Court finds from the testimony that |
his road has, at times. been obstruct-
I'd by oyster shells and other debris.
and that the plaintiffs have had diff
iculty in travelling the same This