The lake boaters and coastal cruisers produced by Holiday mansion manufacturing company are popular on what estuary in Maryland and Virginia?
Holiday mansion Holiday Mansion U.S. fiberglass houseboat Vanderbilt Yachts was purchased by Vanderbilt Yachts in late 2004. The second owner Holiday Mansion International no longer exists. Holiday Mansion boat manufacturing was founded in 1965 in Salina, Kansas by Jack Byquist. They produced thousands of houseboats in the 29–49 foot range for over three decades. In their prime, Holiday Mansions were popular with lake boaters and coastal cruisers from the Chesapeake Bay down to Florida’s coast. The spacious interior combined with a shallow draft and low purchase and operating costs made it a natural boat for rental agencies.
Maryland Route 260 Maryland Route 260 (MD 260) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. Known as Chesapeake Beach Road, the highway runs 8.51 mi from MD 4 at Lyons Creek east to MD 261 in Chesapeake Beach. MD 260 connects the twin towns of Chesapeake Beach and North Beach in northern Calvert County with highways to Upper Marlboro, Washington, Annapolis, and Baltimore. Much of the highway follows part of the course of the former Chesapeake Beach Railway, which ended service in the mid-1930s. MD 260 was constructed in the early 1920s from MD 2 south of Owings east to Chesapeake Beach. The highway was extended west to what is now MD 4 south of Dunkirk in the early 1930s. MD 260 was relocated to a road built on the railroad right-of-way from Lyons Creek through Owings in the mid-1950s.