Editing Betterton, Maryland (section)

==Betterton Historic District==
The '''Betterton Historic District''' consists of a collection of vernacular [[Victorian architecture|Victorian]] era-style wooden frame resort structures.  The district includes many of the homes, hotels and cottages built to accommodate steamboat passengers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Notable buildings within the district include the hotels and boarding homes which catered to the steamboat passengers, several churches, and summer cottages, dating from the golden age of the passenger steamboats on the [[Chesapeake Bay]].<ref name="mht">{{MHT url|id=799|title=Maryland Historical Trust: Listing for Betterton Historic District}}</ref>

It was added to the [[National Register of Historic Places]], (maintained by the [[National Park Service]] of the [[United States Department of the Interior]]) in 1984.<ref name="nris"/>