Cecil County's lovely Fair Hill Natural Resource Management Area served as the home and backdrop for the set of the movie Beloved starring Danny Glover and Oprah Winfrey. The horse wrangler for the film was none other than JoAnn Dawson of Fairwind Stables between Rising Sun and North East.
Cecil County was named for the Second Lord Baltimore Cecilius Calvert, therefore the correct pronunciation of the name is that of "Cecil B. DeMille," rather than the more common pronunciation of "See-Sill." Because of the original pronunciation many of us refer to ourselves as "Cecilians" rather than "Cecil Countains."
The town of Port Deposit in along the Susquehanna River was once home to the Bainbridge Naval Training Center from 1942 to 1976 where such famous personages as Bill Cosby and Stan Musial trained as sailors.
The Susquehanna River is 444-miles long starting in Oswego, New York, and running through New York and Pennsylvania before reaching the Chesapeake Bay at Cecil County. Geologists debate only whether the Susquehanna is the oldest or second oldest river in the world.
Woodstock Farm in Chesapeake City is the final resting place for one of the greatest horses the tracks have ever known, the great Kelso. He was born and raised on Woodstock Farm and rests under a monumental grave on that farm where he once roamed.
The town of Rising Sun is celebrating its 150th anniversary in 2010, having been incorporated in 1860. Originally the village was known as Summer Hill but because so many people met at a tavern located in the village known as "The Rising Sun" they began to refer to the village itself as "The Rising Sun," and the name stuck.
