Edward Gray
member, Ocean City Bridge Committee · active 1938
One of the five named members of the Ocean City Bridge Committee, chosen in the summer of 1938 by residents who wanted the town's new highway bridge kept at Worcester Street and who asked the State Roads Commission to survey North Fifteenth Street instead.
In the record (1)
1938 · 1938-07-28
Ocean City residents formed a Bridge Committee in the summer of 1938 to keep Worcester Street, and asked the state to survey North Fifteenth Street instead
'The Ocean City Bridge Committee, recently chosen at a meeting of residents favoring Worcester street for a new bridge and whose membership includes L. Franklin Purnell, Dr. Charles W. Purnell, Clarence Carey, Edward Gray and William H. Purnell, secretary, said today that a written official request for a new bridge survey for North 15th street would be sent immediately to the State Roads Commission in Baltimore.' Their case was that approval for a bridge at North Fifteenth Street, together with the improvement and maintenance of the present Worcester Street span, 'would not only build an economical bridge at North 15th street, where rights of way can be secured at low cost, but also re-build the present Worcester street bridge.' It was a committee formed after the town council had already given the state North Division and Caroline Streets, and its members are the same men who turn up three weeks later at the War Department hearing.
Ocean City Bridge CommitteeMaryland State Roads CommissionL. Franklin PurnellDr. Charles Washington PurnellClarence CareyWilliam H. Purnell
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