White Crystal Beach, Maryland
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Crystal Beach is an unincorporated community
in Cecil County
, Maryland
, United States
.
Crystal beach is a partnership between two brothers of the Green Family. Kenneth "Gene" Eugene Green and Alfred "Dickie" Ernest Green (1933-2010). The Community is inhabited seasonally with the majority of its inhabitants calling the Delaware Valley area their home. There are many large families there who have been frequenting the small private beach community for generations. Within the past five years, a small group of members have begun to coordinate events for the community to help raise funds to improve the quality of life at the small resort area. It is a prime location for boating and sunbathing. White Crystal Beach was founded in the mid 1930's by Alfred Ernest Green and his wife Ethel Pearsey Green at the site of Reybold's Wharf. The Green family had formerly owned a traveling carnival, then small amusement parks in Wilmington Delaware, Pennsgrove N.J., and Charlsetown Maryland. The Green family created a summer only, private rental resort and named it "White Crystal Beach" because the water of the Elk river was crystal clear.The Green family built bathhouses, a dance hall,beer garden, bowling alley, and even a tattoo parlour. Children's amusement park rides, and an antique merry-go-round were brought from the travelling carnival, and a few dozen simple wooden cottages were built as rental units. Ernest and Ethel brought in their son Kenneth Green (wife Edna) and daughter Ella Green Crump to help run the concessions and manage the business. Eventually they were joined by their grandchildren- William ,Dorcas, and Alfred Crump, and "Gene", "Dickie", "Betty", and "Margie" Green,who all worked in various aspects of the family business. Alfred Ernest Green died in the late 1940s, and the management was passed on to his son Kenneth Green. The early 1950s brought some changes with damage from Hurricane Hazel in 1954, and a devastating fire in 1955. Ethel Green and her daughter Ella Green Crump Spence bought the farm property abutting the northern property line to renovate for their retirement, but Ella died in 1957, and Ethel retired to her second home in Florida, where she died in 1959. The farm property was passed to Ella's children and became "Elkveiw Shores". White Crystal Beach was then owned by Kenneth and Edna Green, and with the help of their two sons, Kenneth "Gene" Green and Alfred "Dickie" Green ,White Crystal Beach has continued to be a true family resort.
Alfred "Dickie" Green died in January of 2010.
Unincorporated area
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in Cecil County
Cecil County, Maryland
Cecil County is a county located in the U.S. state of Maryland. It is part of the Delaware Valley. It was named for Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore , who was the first Proprietary Governor of the colony of Maryland from 1632 until his death in 1675. The county seat is Elkton. The newspaper...
, Maryland
Maryland
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, United States
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Crystal beach is a partnership between two brothers of the Green Family. Kenneth "Gene" Eugene Green and Alfred "Dickie" Ernest Green (1933-2010). The Community is inhabited seasonally with the majority of its inhabitants calling the Delaware Valley area their home. There are many large families there who have been frequenting the small private beach community for generations. Within the past five years, a small group of members have begun to coordinate events for the community to help raise funds to improve the quality of life at the small resort area. It is a prime location for boating and sunbathing. White Crystal Beach was founded in the mid 1930's by Alfred Ernest Green and his wife Ethel Pearsey Green at the site of Reybold's Wharf. The Green family had formerly owned a traveling carnival, then small amusement parks in Wilmington Delaware, Pennsgrove N.J., and Charlsetown Maryland. The Green family created a summer only, private rental resort and named it "White Crystal Beach" because the water of the Elk river was crystal clear.The Green family built bathhouses, a dance hall,beer garden, bowling alley, and even a tattoo parlour. Children's amusement park rides, and an antique merry-go-round were brought from the travelling carnival, and a few dozen simple wooden cottages were built as rental units. Ernest and Ethel brought in their son Kenneth Green (wife Edna) and daughter Ella Green Crump to help run the concessions and manage the business. Eventually they were joined by their grandchildren- William ,Dorcas, and Alfred Crump, and "Gene", "Dickie", "Betty", and "Margie" Green,who all worked in various aspects of the family business. Alfred Ernest Green died in the late 1940s, and the management was passed on to his son Kenneth Green. The early 1950s brought some changes with damage from Hurricane Hazel in 1954, and a devastating fire in 1955. Ethel Green and her daughter Ella Green Crump Spence bought the farm property abutting the northern property line to renovate for their retirement, but Ella died in 1957, and Ethel retired to her second home in Florida, where she died in 1959. The farm property was passed to Ella's children and became "Elkveiw Shores". White Crystal Beach was then owned by Kenneth and Edna Green, and with the help of their two sons, Kenneth "Gene" Green and Alfred "Dickie" Green ,White Crystal Beach has continued to be a true family resort.
Alfred "Dickie" Green died in January of 2010.