Horace Davis
Delegate for Worcester County, Maryland General Assembly · active 1929
The Worcester County delegate who was to introduce Ocean City's $100,000 shore-protection and inlet bill in February 1929 — $40,000 for ocean jetties on the beach at the resort and the balance to reopen the natural inlet three miles below the town. No such act appears in the Laws of Maryland for 1929. He is the campaign's first named Worcester County legislator after the death of State Senator Orlando Harrison in 1928, and no source found gives his forename in full or says what became of his bill.
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1929
Ocean City asks the General Assembly for $100,000 — $40,000 of jetties and $60,000 to reopen the inlet three miles below the town — and gets neither.
On 11 February 1929, with the General Assembly sitting, a dispatch datelined Ocean City reported that the town was asking Annapolis for an appropriation of $100,000 'for protective measures against the ocean at this resort and for reopening of the natural inlet three miles below here.' Of that, $40,000 was to construct ocean jetties on the beach and the balance to be spent on the reopening project at the inlet. The bill was to be introduced within a few days by Delegate Horace Davis of Worcester County. No such act appears in the Laws of Maryland for 1929: the printed index to volume 572 lists exactly two Ocean City acts — the improvement bonds and the pier company — and the Worcester County entry carries no inlet, jetty or shore-protection item of any kind.
Fourteen months earlier the State Roads Commission had committed $140,000 to dredging a channel so that the ebb tide would scour the inlet the storm of 1920 cut. By February 1929 the town was asking for money to *reopen* it. Whatever the dredging achieved, the sea was winning — and this time Annapolis gave nothing at all. Four and a half years later the ocean cut its own inlet and ended the argument.
Ocean City Inlet & JettyMaryland State Roads Commission
Source · checked 2026-08-06