by Don Barker | Aug 7, 2019 | Age of Sail, Maritime
Stand in the Place: The Age of Sail returns to Denton and the upper Choptank River Sailing the Choptank was never easy. Even so, schooners, bugeyes, pungies, and skipjacks tied up at Denton from the 1700s till the 1930s. Now you too can sail with us from Denton down...
by Don Barker | Sep 23, 2018 | 20th Century, Age of Sail
The skipjack Flora A. Price was built at Chase, Maryland, in 1910. She was one of the largest skipjacks ever built. Flora lived briefly on the upper Choptank at Denton. Flora A. Price at Old Harford Town Maritime Center, West Denton, Feb 2002. Flora dredged...
by Don Barker | Dec 26, 2016 | Age of Sail, Age of Steam, Everyday Citizens
Caleb Clark Wheeler of Gilpin Point Caleb Clark Wheeler was born in 1839 at Gilpin Point in Caroline County. At age 12 he began work as a cook on a sailing schooner that shipped goods and passengers between the Choptank and Baltimore. By age 18, he was a schooner...
by Don Barker | Aug 10, 2014 | 20th Century, Age of Sail, Everyday Citizens
As many as four or five two- and three-mast sailing vessels at a time were often tied up at the Denton wharves. I often had the job of leading the mule forward to lift the bag out of the vessel’s hold, and backing him up again to drop the bag...
by Don Barker | Mar 30, 2014 | 20th Century, Age of Sail
I know, I know . . . She still shows up in the Registry of National Historic Landmarks. But I tell you, Joe, Maggie Lee died ten years ago in West Denton! I have photos to prove it. The Chesapeake Bay skipjack Maggie Lee is listed in the Registry of National...
by Don Barker | Mar 11, 2014 | Age of Sail
On MD 404 heading east to Rehoboth, near Denton you slow down for the speed trap then speed up again at the Choptank River bridge. You look downriver toward Denton and see five pleasure boats on the water, each well cargoed with human freight. One is laden heavily...
