Steamboats Out of Baltimore
Author | : Robert H. Burgess |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Transportation |
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Author | : Robert H. Burgess |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Transportation |
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Author | : S. C. Gilfillan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 1938 |
Genre | : Steam-navigation |
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Author | : Jack Shaum |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2015-10-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1625855443 |
In the golden age of the steamer, the rich bounty of the Eastern Shore was transported down the Chester River and across the Chesapeake Bay to the port of Baltimore. For over one hundred years, vessels like the Maryland, the Chester and the B.S. Ford traversed these winding waters laden with fruit, grains, crabs and oysters. For a dollar, passengers could enjoy the novelty of a ride and the slow panorama of the shoreline. Through freeze and fog, skilled captains plied the waterways until the last of the steamers--the Bay Belle--made its final passage in the 1950s. Author and historian Jack Shaum journeys back to the bygone days of the Chester River's steamboats.
Author | : Chesapeake Steamship Company |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 14 |
Release | : 1932 |
Genre | : Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) |
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Author | : David C. Holly |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
"The name Weems, and the Weems line," writes David C. Holly, "symbolized nearly the entire epoch of the steamboat on the Chesapeake." The Weems line began in Baltimore in 1819, as steamboats first appeared on the Chesapeake and its rivers. It was sold to the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1905, at the height of the steamboat's "Golden Age," though its boats continued to serve the Bay until the 1930s. Illustrated with maps, drawings, and rare photographs, Tidewater by Steamboat is the vivid portrait of life on the Patuxent, the Potomac, and the Rappahannock, where Weems boats sailed and the course of the American republic was set.
Author | : Alexander Crosby Brown |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1940 |
Genre | : Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.) |
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Author | : Chris Dickon |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 2006-11-21 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1439617562 |
The Chesapeake Bay has been a multifaceted engine of American history and commerce since its first settlers touched the shore in the early 1600s. Since English settlers first touched the shore of the new country in 1607, the Chesapeake Bay has been a multifaceted engine of American history and commerce. The body of inland tidal water between the largest bay cities, Norfolk and Baltimore, was large enough to be the setting of adventure and close enough to allow smaller towns and cities to grow up on its shores. The common community came to life with the technologies of steamboats that could cover the long distances between North and South relatively quickly. Steamers filled in the nooks and crannies of the bay's geography, and by the mid-19th century, the skies over the bay were lined with dark, waterborne contrails in all directions. Strong machines built to master rough seas while moving gently enough for small harbors, many steamers had life spans that crossed whole eras in American history. Some were drafted into distinguished service in domestic and foreign wars. The steamers plied the bay and its rivers with a feminine grace well into the mid-20th century, when they were overtaken by the rush of modern times. The last steamer sailed into oblivion exactly 150 years after the first of them appeared in Baltimore harbor.
Author | : James Tigner, Jr. |
Publisher | : Schiffer Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9780764331091 |
Over 300 postcards and engaging text present Maryland's beach resorts of yesteryear. Before the completion of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and improved highways, the Chesapeake Bay was dotted with many beach resorts. By the 1890s, the two most popular beaches in Maryland were Betterton and Tolchester Beach. It was a time when going to the beach meant an excursion boat ride across the bay. Betterton's heyday was from the 1890s to the 1940s, when Betterton's Victorian wooden hotels were booked solid and served home cooked meals all summer. From its beginnings as a small picnic ground in the 1870s, Tolchester Beach grew to become the Chesapeake Bay's biggest and best-known amusement park and bathing beach until 1962. This book is a must read for beach lovers, historians, and postcard collectors alike.
Author | : Chesapeake Steamship Company |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 7 |
Release | : 1939 |
Genre | : Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) |
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Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : Baltimore (Md.) |
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