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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