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Chesapeake Bay Deck Boats
During the 1880s, Chesapeake Bay boatbuilders began constructing small wooden open boats, referred to as deadrise boats, out of planks with V-shaped bows. As boatbuilders created …
Soldiers At The Doorstep
For much of the Civil War, Virginia civilians struggled to keep their homes intact as they faced the threat of Union soldiers on their doorsteps. In this revised and expanded …
Middlesex County
Just 35 years after Jamestown was settled, Virginia colonists planted tobacco in nearby Middlesex County, an area strategically located between two major rivers and the Chesapeake …
Chesapeake Bay Buyboats, 2nd Edition
Meet workboat builders and the versatile boats’ owners, captains, and families who bought and sold goods and played aboard them. Illustrations are contributions of many who were …
Harvesting the Chesapeake
This second, revised and expanded, edition of this popular collection, including 233 photos and sketches, represents the most comprehensive study of the Chesapeake Bay's fisheries, …
Chesapeake Bay Deck Boats
Deadrise and Cross-planked
In Deadrise and Cross-planked, author Larry S. Chowning takes readers on a journey into the history of wooden deadrise boat building, highlighting its role in Chesapeake Bay …
Deltaville
In the early 20th century, the communities previously recognized as Sandy Bottom, Enoch, Stingray Point, Ruark, Amburg, Stove Point, Horse Shoe Bend, Pace,s Neck, and Grinels …
Deltaville
Barcat Skipper
Tangier Island lies in the Chesapeake Bay about midway between Tidewater Virginia and Virginias Eastern Shore, about ten miles below the Maryland state line and about forty miles …