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==History== {{more citations needed section|date=August 2022}} Essex is located on a peninsula bodied by the middle river to the east and the back river to the west. Essex was originally ten blocks, running from Mace Avenue to Marlyn Avenue. It began in 1909 by the Taylor Land Company for the residents in [[Baltimore]] who wanted a place outside the city limits to perhaps grow a garden or to pursue some other rural activity. Land was cheap, and sales were enhanced by a promotional pamphlet. Henry Guttenberger built the first general store in Essex in 1910 on the corner of Eastern Boulevard and Mace Avenue. Between 1911 and 1912, the Taylor Land Company donated the lots for Essex Methodist and St. John's Lutheran churches. They also donated the land where the volunteer fire department built their station. The permanent fire station opened in 1921. With the ever-growing population came the need to build schools. The elementary school opened in 1925 with 400 students. Essex Community College, now [[Community College of Baltimore County|CCBC-Essex]], was founded in 1957. Classes were first held at [[Kenwood High School (Maryland)|Kenwood High School]], with fifty part-time and nine full-time students. In 1961, the college moved to Dorsey Avenue, and in 1968 moved to its present location, in [[Rossville, Maryland|Rossville]]. This site was owned by the Mace family, and the family burial plot is maintained and protected by the college. A fire in August 1957 destroyed an entire block of businesses on Eastern Boulevard, and the town's business district never fully recovered from that catastrophe. The ten-alarm blaze caused a half million dollars in damages, in the time it took to repair the buildings new shopping centers were built changing the buying habits of consumers.<!-- Image with unknown copyright status removed: [[Image:essex_fire.jpg|thumb|Essex Fire - 1957]] --> The [[Glenn L. Martin Company]] was the single biggest reason for the rapid growth of the area. Employment at the company peaked at more than 53,000 workers during [[World War II]]. In the years following, industry in the area dwindled, and much of the original Glenn L. Martin facility became the property of the State, including [[Martin State Airport]]. The remaining [[aerospace]] business followed a progression of corporate mergers and today is owned and operated by [[Lockheed Martin]]. Another important company was Eastern Rolling Mill, which opened in 1919. The plant, at the head of the [[Back River (Maryland)|Back River]], produced carbon [[sheet steel]]. In 1944, Eastern merged with Industrial Stainless Steel, Inc. to form Easco. The plant then merged with the British company Avesta-Sheffield in the early 1990s, finally shutting down operations in the late 1990s. Today, there is interest in revitalizing Essex by including it in government-sponsored [[empowerment zone]]s. Many neighborhoods have begun a "clean-up" of their areas, hoping to transform Essex into a place that will be ready to move into the twenty-first century. Improvements include removal of run-down, low-income housing, including the Tall Trees Community, Edgewater apartments, and the Riverdale Community; new medians and pavement on Eastern boulevard; a new Essex monolith replaced the old Essex cube, and new developments being built around the town. [[Ballestone Mansion]] (Ballestone-Stansbury House) built in 1800 was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1975.<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|2008a}}</ref> The town has a strip of shops known as the business district on Eastern boulevard starting from Virginia avenue to Marlyn avenue. The business district originally started from Mace Avenue to Marlyn Avenue. Its largest shopping center, Middlesex, was built in 1955 which once had a department store [[Montgomery Ward]] and grocery store Food Fair as anchors of the shopping center.<ref name="Census 2010">{{Cite web |title=Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): Essex CDP, Maryland |url=https://www.census.gov |access-date=February 23, 2012 |publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref> On August 2, 2009, the community of Essex celebrated its 100th birthday with a party at Cox's Point Park on Riverside Drive. <small>Sources: Baltimore County Public Library </small> [[File:Essex district court.png|thumb|Essex district court]]
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