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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16R8_tolchester-bandstand_St-Michaels-MD.html
On this Victorian bandstand, musicians played for holiday visitors at Tolchester Beach, in Kent County.In the mid 1800s people from Baltimore and other Mid-Atlantic cities traveled to Tolchester Beach and other Eastern Shore destinations on steamb…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16P6_maritime-legend-21663_St-Michaels-MD.html
Hand tonged in the Miles River in 1939 by local seafaring legend Frankie Alberto Morgan Wilkenship, this rope dates back to 1813. It was used during the British Invasion of St. Michaels. Maritime forensic experts claim the line "a true nautical br…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15SY_the-miles-river_St-Michaels-MD.html
In front of you, the Miles River is carrying freshwater down to the Chesapeake Bay. Twice a day, saltwater tides from the Atlantic Ocean push back the fresh water flow of the Miles River and some 150 other rivers, creeks, and streams. This mixing …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15SW_rebuilding-rosie-parks_St-Michaels-MD.html
Museum craftsmen are restoring this historic skipjack, which was built in 1955 to dredge oysters from the bottom of the Chesapeake Bay. Why is this skipjack important? The celebrated Dorchester County boatbuilder Bronza Parks built Rosie Parks in …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15S8_miniature-skipjack-spat_St-Michaels-MD.html
A fairly simple and inexpensive boat to build, the skipjack became a popular workboat in the 1890s. Built in 1969, this miniature version of a skipjack was a sturdy, swift daysailer particularly suitable for Chesapeake Bay waters.Length: 23'3", Wi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15S5_too-much-of-a-good-thing_St-Michaels-MD.html
Chesapeake waterman used all these tools to harvest oysters. This hardware tells a story of human ingenuity and greed. Hand tongs, in use since the early 1700s, extended human reach to oysters too deep to gather by hand. A hundred years later, dre…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15S3_how-the-screwpile-lighthouse-got-its-name_St-Michaels-MD.html
A screw like this one was at the bottom of each of the seven pilings (legs) of this lighthouse—allowing the leg to be screwed down into the soft Bay bottom. It would have been much easier to simply drive the leg straight down into the mud, b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15RY_hooper-strait-lighthouse_St-Michaels-MD.html
This lighthouse was originally located forty miles south of here -in Hopper Strait—where its light marked the location of one of the Chesapeake Bay's many hidden sand bars. Because the Bay is mostly shallow, sailing a boat from the harbor to…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15RW_point-lookout-fog-bell-tower_St-Michaels-MD.html
When fog hides a lighthouse's beacon, sailors need an audible signal to guide them. So a fog tower containing a bell was frequently built alongside a lighthouse. Large bells, such as the 1100 pound bell in this tower, were used because their sound…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15RV_oystering-on-the-chesapeake_St-Michaels-MD.html
The Chesapeake Bay is the greatest oyster factory on earth. Along its length, fresh water from the mid Atlantic states combines with salt water from the sea in just the right proportions (and at just the right depths and temperatures) to create th…