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Tidewater by Steamboat: A Saga of the Chesapeake
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“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 Stea… More >>
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IT STARTED WITH A STEAMBOAT: An American Saga
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In little over a hundred years America went from a country that lacked a national road system to become a world leader in all forms of fast transportation. It was from 1807 to 1909 that the foundations of cheap fast travel forever changed us as a people and a nation. It all started with a steamboat trip up the Hudson which brought about a mechanical transportation revolution that came ashore and finally took to the air. Our story is about transportati… More >>
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