Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum
F2. Maritime Culture, Heritage, Archaeology, Art and MuseumsDefinition
St. Michaels, Maryland.
An open-air maritime museum at St. Michaels, Maryland, founded in 1965 on 18 acres along the Miles River. It documents the Chesapeake Bay’s workboat culture: oystering, crabbing, and the bay’s skipjack and bugeye sailing dredge boats. The collection holds the 1879 Hooper Strait Lighthouse, moved to the site, and the largest assembly of Chesapeake Bay watercraft, including the restored skipjack Rosie Parks.
Source: Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels, Maryland, founded 1965; Hooper Strait Lighthouse (built 1879).