BOOKS by Professor David C Holly

Tidewater by Steamboat: A Saga of the Chesapeake more books like this

by Professor David C Holly

The name "Weems", and the Weems line, 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 ...

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Chesapeake Steamboats: Vanished Fleet more books like this

by Professor David C Holly

In eight engaging chapters, this book portrays the steamboat era (1813-1963) on the Chesapeake, which matched in glamour and excitement the steamboats' history on the Mississippi. The book begins with the building of the first steamboat on the Bay in the shadow of the bitter struggle between Stevens, Livingston, Fulton, and Latrobe, among others, ...

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