![View of Elktonia Beach](https://www.aaacert.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/View-of-Elktonia-Beach.jpg)
AAACERT was very proud to provide traffic and parking support to the City of Annapolis during the historic Elktonia Carr’s Beach Signing Ceremony.
![AAACERT President Bruce Morgenstern posing with Lt. Governor Boyd Rutherford.](https://www.aaacert.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/JA6_8709-300x240.jpeg)
![CERT member Mark Demyanovich greets Lt. Governor Boyd Rutherford.](https://www.aaacert.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/JA6_8700-300x240.jpeg)
The following snippet is from the Chesapeake Conservancy website at: https://www.chesapeakeconservancy.org/elktonia-beach/
Elktonia Beach, a 5-acre waterfront parcel on the Chesapeake Bay, is the last remnant of the original 180-acre property purchased by Fred Carr in 1902. Carr’s and Sparrow’s Beaches were privately-owned and operated by Fred Carr’s daughters, Elizabeth Carr Smith and Florence Carr Sparrow. The “Beaches” (1930s-1970s), as they were called, represented the heart of entertainment throughout the mid-Atlantic region and welcomed Blacks during a time of segregation.
![Elktonia Beach Parcel](https://www.aaacert.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Elktonia-Beach.jpg)