Maryland Daily Photo

That black strip in the middle of the picture is not some sort of volcanic rock, as some of us had hypothesized it to be.  It is asphault.   It turns out that, as a real suprise, some developer in the 50’s tried to develop Assateague and paved a road all the way down to the VA border.  Soon thereafter, a storm came and washed much of the road away.  It was then decided that the island might not be the best place for a development and from all of that, the national seashore was started.