Tidewater by Steamboat: A Saga of the Chesapeake

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“The name Weems, and the Weems line,” writes David C. Holly, “symbolized just about all the epoch of the steamboat at the Chesapeake.” The Weems line started in Baltimore in 1819, as steamboats first gave the impression at the Chesapeake and its rivers. It used to be sold to the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1905, at the height of the steamboat’s “Golden Age,” although its boats continued to serve the Bay till the 1930s. Illustrated with maps, drawings, and rare images, Tidewater by Steamboat is the vivid portrait of life at the Patuxent, the Potomac, and the Rappahannock, where Weems boats sailed and the course of the American republic used to be set.


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