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NORTH AMERICA'S MARITIME MUSEUMS: An Annotated Guide r r r NORTH AMERICANS MARITIME MUSEUMS: An Annotated Guide Howe Edward Hartley Dedicated to the memory of Robert Howe Baker, 1927-1983, who loved the historic small craft ofAmerica and devoted much of his life to their discovery, restoration, and preservation. NORTH AMERICA'S MARITIME MUSEUMS: An Annotated Guide Copyright ® 1987 by Hartley Edward Howe Allrightsreserved. Nopartofthisbookmaybereproducedorutilizedinanyformor byanymeans,electronicormechanical,includingphotocopying,recordingorbyany information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the Publisher. Library ofCongress Cataloging in Publication Data Howe, Hartley F.dward. North America's Maritime Museums — — 1. Navigation United States History. I. Title. VK2:iHB8 198.5 '^H7.5'()97'^ 83-1442 ISBN 0-8160-1001-3 Composition by Facts On File/Maxwell Photographies Jacket and Interior Design by Oksana Kushnir 10 9 8 7 () 5 4 3 2 1 CONTENTS Introduction ix Allie Ryan Maritime Collection, Maine Marine Academy; Castine, Maine PART ONE: WHERE IT ALL BEGAN: Islesford Historical Museum; Little ATLANTIC AND GULF COASTS ^ Cranberry Island, Maine Machiasport Historical Society Museum; NEW ENGLAND (AND ITS I. Machiasport, Maine STEPCHILD, LONG ISLAND) ^ • South ofBoston and Into the Old Colony • The Hub ofthe (Yankee) Universe: Boston 4 Kendall Whaling Museum; Sharon, USS Constitution Museum; Charlestown Massachusetts Navy Yard Cohasset Maritime Museum; Cohasset, USS Constitution; Boston Naval Shipyard Massachusetts Bostonian Society; Old State House King Caesar House; Duxbury, Museum Massachusetts Brig Beaver ///Tea Party Museum Mayflower II; Plymouth, Massachusetts Francis Russell Hart Memorial Museum/ Sparrow-Hawk/Pilgrim Hall; Plymouth, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Massachusetts Cambridge • The Old Colony II: Cape Cod • North ofBoston to the Piscataqua g Falmouth Historical Society's Museums; Falmouth, Massachusetts Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy; Andover, Massachusetts Woods Hole Historical Society; Woods Peabody Museum of Salem; Salem, Hole, Massachusetts Donald G. Trayser Memorial Museum; Massachusetts Barnstable, Massachusetts Salem Maritime National Historic Site; Old Harbor Life SavingStation; Race Point, Salem, Massachusetts Gloucester Fishermen's Museum; Provincetown, Massachusetts Gloucester, Massachusetts • The Old Colony III: The Whaling Towns Museum ofCape Ann History; Gloucester, Nantucket Whaling Museum; Nantucket, Massachusetts Massachusetts Custom House Maritime Museum; Peter Foulger Memorial Museum; Newburyport, Massachusetts Nantucket, Massachusetts Nantucket Lightship; Nantucket, • Where the Piscataqua Meets the Sea Massachusetts Portsmouth Athenaeum; Portsmouth, New Nantucket Athenaeum; Nantucket, Hampshire Massachusetts Replica (iundalow Captain Edward H. Duke's County Historical Society/Francis Adams; Portsmouth, New Hampshire Foster Museum; Edgartown, Martha's Kittery Historical and Naval Museum; Vineyard, Massachusetts Kittery, Maine Seaman'sBethel(Chapel Museum; Vineyard Haven, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts • Way Down East 2Q Seaman's Bethel; New Bedford, John Hancock Warehouse and Wharf/Old Massachusetts York Historical Society; York, Maine Whaling Museum/Old Dartmouth Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum, Bowdoin Historical Society; New Bedford, College; Brunswick, Maine Massachusetts Moosehead Marine/M.V. Katahdin New Bedford Free Public Library; New Museum; (ireenville Maine Bedford, Massachusetts Maine Maritime Museum/Schooner Lightship New Bedford; New Bedford, Sherman Zwicker; Bath, Maine Massachusetts Friendship Museum; Friendship, Maine Shore Village Museum; Rockland, Maine • Narragansett Bay Penobscot Marine Museum; Searsport, Fall River Marine Museum; Fall River, Maine Massachusetts 5 USS Massachusetts/DestroyerJoseph P. American Merchant Marine Museum; Kennedy/ Submarine Lionfish; Fall River, Kings Point, Long Island, New York Massachusetts New York State Maritime (College; Fort Naval War College Museum; Newport, Schuyler, 1 he Bronx, New York, New Rhode Island York Continental Sloop Providence; Newport, City Island Historical Nautical Museum; Rhode Island City Island, The Bronx, New York, New Museum of Yachting; Newport, Rhode York Island Vanderbilt Memorial Room/Marble House; • The Lordly Hudson 82 Newport, Rhode Island Hudson River Sloop Clearwater; Herreshoff Marine Museum; Bristol, Poughkeepsie, New York Rhode Island Franklin D. Roosevelt Libraryand Museum; Brownell Model Collection/Nicholson Hyde Park, New York Collection; Providence Public Library, Hudson River Maritime Center; Kingston, Providence, Rhode Island New York • Along the Comiecticut Shore 56 • Down Along the Erie Canal 88 Old Lighthouse Museum; Stonington, Erie Canal Village; Rome, New York Connecticut Canastota Canal Town Museum; Canastota, Mystic Seaport MuseumlCharles W. New York Morgan/Joseph Conrad; Mystic, Connecticut Erie Canal Museum/Weighlock Building; USS Croaker; Groton, Connecticut Syracuse, New York Submarine Force Museum/USS Nautilus; Groton, Connecticut • Champlain: Lake ofBattles 92 United States Coast Guard Museum; U.S. Skenesborough Museum; Whitehall, Coast Guard Academy, New London, New York Connecticut SS TiconderogalS\\e\hurne Museum; Tale of the Whale Museum; New London, Shelburne, Vermont Connecticut Clinton County Historical Museum; Connecticut River Museum; Essex, Plattsburgh, New York Connecticut Adirondack Museum; Blue Mountain Lake, HMS Rose; Bridgeport, Connecticut New York • The Island Like a Great Whale 65 III. THE ROAD TO CANADA ^ 99 Sag Harbor Historical and Whaling Museum; Sag Harbor, Long Island, New • Along the St. Lawrence 99 David M. Stewart Museum; Montreal, York Quebec, Canada Easthampton Town Marine Museum; La Grande Hermine; Quebec City, Quebec, Amagansett, Long Island, New York Canada Suffolk Marine Museum; West Sayville, Port ofQuebec in the Nineteenth Century; Long Island, New York Quebec City, Quebec, Canada Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Museum; Musee Maritime Bernier; I'lslet-sur-Mer; Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, New Quebec, Canada York THE PORT OF NEW YORK AND ITS IV. CANADA'S ATLANTIC PROVINCES 108 II. INLAND EMPIRE 70 • New Brunswick 110 Grand Manan Museum; Grand Harbor, • Around Next) York 70 New Brunswick, Canada New York Historical Society; New York, New Brunswick Museum; SaintJohn, New New York Brunswick, Canada Museum of the City of New York; New Marine Center/Centre Marin; Shippagan, York, New York New Brunswick, Canada South Street Seaport Museum; New York, Albert County Museum; Hopewell Cape, New York New Brunswick, Canada USS Intrepid; New York, New York USS Ling; Hackensack, New Jersey • Prince Edward Island 1 1 Holland I and Holland ///Paterson Green Park Museums and Shipyard; Port Museum; Paterson, New Jersey Hill, Prince Edward Island, Canada SeaRescuePark; Northport, PrinceEdward • Delaware Bay II: The Pennsylvania Canals 152 Island, Canada Canal Museum, Center for Canal History Basin Head Fisheries Museum; Souris, and Technology; Easton, Pennsylvania Prince Edward Island, Canada Delaware Canal barge rides. New Hope Musee de la Mer; Havre-Aubert, Isle-de-la- BargeCompany; New Hope, Pennsylvania Madeleine, Quebec, Canada Surviving Sections of Pennsylvania Canals; Pennsylvania Canal Society • Acadia/Nova Scotia 120 Maritime Command Museum; Halifax, • Chesapeake Bay I: The Eastern Shore and the Nova Scotia, Canada Upper Bay 154 Maritime Museum ofthe Adantic; Halifax, Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Museum; Nova Scotia, Canada Chesapeake City, Maryland Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic; Oyster Museum; Chincoteague Island, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada Virginia Yarmouth County Museum; Yarmouth, Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum; St. Nova Scotia, Canada Michaels, Maryland O'Dell Museum; Annapolis Royal, Nova United States Naval Academy Museum; Scotia, Canada Annapolis, Maryland Churchill House; Hantsport, Nova Scotia, Maryland Historical Society/Radcliffe Canada Maritime Museum; Baltimore, Maryland Pride ofBaltimore; Baltimore, Maryland • Newfoundland 133 United States Frigate Constellation; L'Anse aux Meadows; Newfoundland, Baltimore, Maryland Canada Baltimore Maritime Museum/Submarine The Newfoundland Museum; St. John's, Torsk, and Lightship Chesapeake, Newfoundland, Canada Baltimore, Maryland Steam Tug i?a//mior<'/Baltimore Industrial THE MIDDLE ATLANTIC COAST; V. Museum; Baltimore, Maryland RARITAN BAY TO THE NORTH CAROLINA Brown's Wharf Maritime Museum; LINE 138 Baltimore, Maryland • TheJersey Shore 138 Steamboat Historical Society Collection; Shoal Harbor Marine Museum; Port Baltimore, Maryland Monmouth, New Jersey Navesink Lighthouse Museum; Highlands, • Chesapeake Bay II: The Potomac River and New Jersey Southern Maryland 168 Sandy Hook Museum; Highlands, New Schooner Alexandria; Alexandria, Virginia C & O Locks and Tavern/Lockhouse; Great Jersey Atlantic County Historical Society Museum Falls, Maryland and Library; Somers Point, New Jersey United States Navy Memorial Museum; Ocean City Historical Museum; Ocean City, Washington, D.C. New National Museum of American History of Jersey Smithsonian Institution; Washington, D.C. • Delaware Bay I: Philadelphia and Wilmington 14 I 1876, a Centennial Exhibition; Washington, Philadelphia Maritime Museum; DC. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Calvert Marine Museum; Solomons, Bark Moshulu; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Maryland Barkentine Gazela Primeiro; Philadelphia, Pinnace Maryland Dove; St. Mary's City, Pennsylvania Maryland Protected Cruiser Olympia and Submarine Becuna; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania • Chesapeake Bay III: The Virginia Peninsula and American Philosophical Society; Hampton Roads 179 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Susan Constant, Godspeed, Discovery; Historical Maritime Collection of the Jamestown, Virginia Insurance Company of North America, Yorktown Victory Center; Yorktown, CIGNA Museum; Philadelphia, Virginia Pennsylvania National Park Service Visitors Center; Franklin Institute Science Museum; Yorktown, Virginia Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Watermen's Museum; Yorktown, Virginia Coast Guard Cutter Mohawk; Wilmington, Mariners' Museum; Newport News, Delaware Virginia Hampton Roads Naval Museum; Norfolk, The Mississippi to the Rio Grande 217 Virginia Rosenberg Library/Lykes (iallery; Norfolk Naval Shipyard; Portsmouth, Galveston, Texas Virginia Bark Elissa; Galveston, Texas Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Museum and Destroyer Escort Stewart and Submarine Portsmouth Lightship Museum; Cavalla; Galveston, Texas Portsmouth, Virginia USS Texas; Houston, Texas Virginia Beach Maritime Historical MSB-5; Fort Worth, Texas Museum; Virginia Beach, Virginia Corpus Christi Museum; Corpus Christi, Texas VI. THE SOUTH FACING THE Adiniial Nimitz Stale Historical P^ark; Fredericksburg, Texas ATLANTIC 188 • South ofCape Henry to Cape Fear: The North Carolina Coast 189 Elizabeth IT, Manteo, North Carolina PART TWO: MIDDLE AMERICA'S RIVERS Cape Hatteras; Island VisitorCenter, North AND LAKES 225 Carolina North Carolina Maritime Museum; THE OHIO COUNTRY VIII. 227 Beaufort, North Carolina Fort Fisher, North Carolina New Hanover County Museum; • "The Beautiful River" 227 The Ohio River Museum; Marietta, Ohio Wilmington, North Carolina Howard Steamboat Museum; USS North Carolina; Wilmington, North Jeffersonville, Indiana Carolina Belle ofLouisville; Louisville, Kentucky • Cape Fear to the St. Mary's: South Carolina and • From Lake to River: The Canals ofOhio and Georgia 99 1 Indiana 232 Ketch Adventure/Charles Towne Landing; St. Helena II Canalboat; Fulton, Ohio Charleston, South Carolina Monticello II Reconstructed Canalboat; Replica, Confederate Submarine Hunley, Coshocton, Ohio Charleston Museum; Charleston, South GeneralHarrison CanalboatVPiqua Carolina Historical Area; Piqua, Ohio Patriots Point/Aircraft Carrier Yorktown, Whitewater Canal State Memorial; Nuclear Ship Savannah, Destroyer Laffey, Metamora, Indiana Submarine Clamagore; Charleston, South Carolina IX. THE MISSISSIPPI 236 Ships of the Sea Museum; Savannah, Georgia Confederate Naval Museum; Columbus, • Old Man River I: The Lower Mississippi and the Arkansas River 236 Georgia Mississippi River Museum; Memphis, Tennessee VII. THE GULF COAST 206 USS Cairo Museum; Vicksburg, Mississippi USS Batfish; Muskogee, Oklahoma • 'Tampa Bay to the Mississippi 207 MGM's Bounty; St. Petersburg, Florida • Old Man RiverII: The Upper Mississippi 239 West Florida Museum of History; USS Inaugural; St. Louis, Missouri Pensacola, Florida USS Hazard; Omaha, Nebraska Pensacola Historical Museum; Pensacola, Keokuk River Museum/SS George M. Florida Verity; Keokuk, Iowa Naval Aviation Museum; Pensacola, Florida Putnam Museum; Davenport, Iowa Fort Morgan Historic Park; Fort Morgan, SS Lone Star Buffalo Bill Museum; Le Alabama Claire, Iowa Battleship Alabama; Mobile, Alabama City ofClinton Showboat; Clinton, Iowa Louisiana Maritime Museum; New Otleans, SS William M. Black Woodward Riverboat Louisiana Museum/Port of Dubuque; Dubuque, Louisiana State Museum; New Orleans, Iowa Louisiana Julius C. Wilkie Steamboat Museum; USS Kidd; Baton Rouge, Louisiana Winona, Minnesota

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A guide to the various maritime museums and ships accessible to the general public along the ocean coasts, inland seas, and rivers of the United States, offering an overview of each location and ship and brief outlines of early maritime history.
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