On the first OHS Open House of the new year, the Odenton Heritage Society will open a display spotlighting the failed Baltimore and Drum Point Railroad. A plan to build a railroad through Anne Arundel County to southern Calvert County captivated industrialists from the 1860’s to the 1920’s. The railroad was never completed, but organizers repeatedly tried to finance and build a line that would funnel freight to a new port near Solomons. Enjoy photographs of a still-existing right-of-way that workers graded near Severn Run and Gambrills in the 1880’s. Learn about audacious plans to rival the port of Baltimore and build a branch to Washington.