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Chesapeake Bay Steamers (MD and VA) (Images of America)

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Since English settlers first touched the shore of the brand 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, used to be large enough to be the setting of adventure and close enough to permit 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 fairly quickly. Steamers filled within 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 even as 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, once they were overtaken by the push of brand new times. The last steamer sailed into oblivion exactly 150 years after the first of them seemed in Baltimore harbor.

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