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Bentley Springs, MD is in Northern Baltimore County, in extreme northern Maryland, just a few miles south of the Mason Dixon line. My Dad was born in the Bentley Springs Hotel on December 13, 1919.

Of Bentley Springs, the Baltimore County Union of February 5, 1865, reported that: “In passing this beautiful and romantic station on the N.C.R. [Northern Central Railway] lately, we noticed still further improvements by Mr. Bentley, the proprietor. The foundations for a good-sized grain and forwarding warehouse is laid and will be rapidly completed. We are told that it is also the intention of Mr. B to build a fine hotel near the station for the accommodation of summer boarders from the city. No place could be better suited for a hotel on account of the beauty and healthfulness of the situation and the convenience of access by railroad from the city.”

    Views of the Bentley Springs Railroad Station on the Northern Central Railroad. Top Left, you can see the Bentley Springs Hotel behind the Station.    

Left, Bentley Springs Hotel. Right, store and Post Office.

The Bentley Springs School. The photo top right was taken sometime before 10-20-1907 as that is the postmark on the back. Bottom left, the 1909 class. Bottom right, the 1921 class.

The Grist Mill at Bee Tree Run owned by the Simpson, Sampson and Royston families.

A Peerless Steam Thresher near Bentley Springs. The owner, Jacob Swam can been seen third from the left in the photo above left.

A winter flood. Note the flooded railroad shed in the last photo.