FIRST -- Railroad Bridge in Town - Havre de Grace, MD
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bluesnote
N 39° 33.362 W 076° 05.580
18S E 406099 N 4379053
One of many plaques in Havre de Grace.
Waymark Code: WMXE92
Location: Maryland, United States
Date Posted: 01/01/2018
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The plaque says, "Travelers on the Post Road, the main route of north/south travel, passed through Havre de Grace and crossed the Susquehanna River on a ferry to Perryville. The ferry was chartered in 1695 and remained in use until the first railroad bridge was built in 1866. Because of the ferries' importance to commerce, the British burned them during their 1813 attack on Havre de Grace.
"(The British) took, plundered, and burnt the small vessels passing from one shore of the bay to the other, belonging to individuals, and loaded entirely with private property. This was their uniform practice."
Jared Sparks,
Conflagration of Havre de Grace, 1817
Painting Caption
A Ferry Scene on the Susquehanna at Wright's Ferry near Havre de Grace, ca 1811 by Pavel Petrovich Svinin. Image The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Ferry launches were located just north and south of David Craig Park in Havre de Grace, and near Rodgers Tavern on the Perryville side of the river. When the first railroad bridge was built in 1866, it followed a route similar to what the ferries must have taken across the river."
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