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Author : Alexander Crosby Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Steam Packets on the Chesapeake written by Alexander Crosby Brown and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chris Dickon
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439617562
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Chesapeake Bay Steamers written by Chris Dickon and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006-11-21 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : David C. Holly
Publisher : Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Chesapeake Steamboats written by David C. Holly and published by Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers. This book was released on 1994 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An appendix details the workings of early steamboat engines. Other appendices provide data on steamboats discussed in the text and maps of the region. The narratives extend the history of the era from that included in other books on the topic. The book, above all, is an enthusiastic, nostalgic, and thoroughly readable exposition of a bygone era and a "vanished fleet."
Author : Chris Dickon
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738543734
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (437 download)
Download or read book Chesapeake Bay Steamers written by Chris Dickon and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : John Antonio Hain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Side Wheel Steamers of the Chesapeake Bay, 1880-1947 written by John Antonio Hain and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David C. Holly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Tidewater by Steamboat written by David C. Holly and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 :
ISBN 13 : 9780517224946
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (249 download)
Download or read book The Old Bay Line, 1840-1940 ... written by Alexander Crosby Brown and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Baltimore Steam Packet Company, now familiarly knows as the Old Bay Line, has for a century run steamers up and down the Chesapeake Bay.
Author : James Tigner, Jr.
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780764331091
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Steamboat Days on the Chesapeake written by James Tigner, Jr. and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 14 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (228 download)
Download or read book Chesapeake Steamship Line Between Baltimore, Old Point Comfort and Norfolk written by Chesapeake Steamship Company and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William B. Cogar
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439669481
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Chesapeake Bay Shipwrecks written by William B. Cogar and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-30 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: North America's largest estuary, the Chesapeake Bay, is fed by more than 150 major rivers and streams from parts of six states and the District of Columbia. Two hundred miles long, with a shoreline that includes more than 11,500 miles of tributaries, the bay has been a major economic lifeline since pre-Columbian times. As such, it is not surprising that the bay has seen its share of shipwrecks over the centuries--from small and large vessels foundering in storms, like the Levin J. Marvel, to naval and merchant ships of all sizes lost to collisions, fires, and wars, such as the US Coast Guard cutter Cuyahoga. The actual number of shipwrecks will never be known, but at least 3,000 in the bay and its tributaries have been documented--either in archives or newspapers or through underwater archaeology. While some wrecks saw great loss of life, others fortunately did not.
Author : William M. Denny
Publisher : Amer Literary Press
ISBN 13 : 9781561679966
Total Pages : 53 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (799 download)
Download or read book Days of Gratitude written by William M. Denny and published by Amer Literary Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Days of Gratitude" captures the role the steamboat Gratitude played in connecting Kent County, Maryland with the centers of commerce in Baltimore and Annapolis.
Author : Jack Shaum
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625855443
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)
Download or read book Lost Chester River Steamboats written by Jack Shaum and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-19 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Robert H. Burgess
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Steamboats Out of Baltimore written by Robert H. Burgess and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard E. Prince
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253336958
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (369 download)
Download or read book Seaboard Air Line Railway written by Richard E. Prince and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thorough history of the Seaboard and its various predecessors and subsidiary lines.
Author : John Antonio 1878- Hain
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781013882753
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (827 download)
Download or read book Side Wheel Steamers of the Chesapeake Bay, 1880-1947 written by John Antonio 1878- Hain and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : David W. Guth
Publisher : Archway Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1480844462
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Bridging the Chesapeake written by David W. Guth and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-24 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the first span of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge opened July 30, 1952, it was a watershed moment in Marylands history. The construction of the bridge took political courage, creative engineering, people working together, and a determination to overcome pettiness. In this detailed history, journalism professor David W. Guth traces the bridges history from its planning to its post-construction effects on the region. From his boyhood memories of the bridge to the details of its construction, the book also tells the story of the people of Marylandoften referred to as a confederacy of two shores. The recurring themes during the debate over building the first, the second, and now possibly a third bridge highlight issues confronting all Americans, including social and political equality, the price of unrestrained growth, the role government should play in our lives, and the importance of enlightened and courageous leadership. While there were unintended consequences that went along with building a bridge to cross the Chesapeake, it began the process of removing social, political, racial, cultural, and economic barriers.
Author : Emily Emerson Lantz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (397 download)
Download or read book History of the Steamboat on the Chesapeake Bay written by Emily Emerson Lantz and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
