Delmarva legends & lore
By: David Healey
Publisher: History Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781596299214
Other titles: Delmarva legends and lore
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Colonial Delmarva; title: Augustine Herman : explorer and mapmaker; title: Chestertown Tea Party; title: How Whorekill and Murderkill got their names; title: Lost houses of Delmarva; title: William Claiborne : Chesapeake Bay's first pirate; title: Baltimore versus Charlestown; title: The original Sotweed factor; title: Bloody Delmarva : English, Swedes, Dutch, and Native Americans in conflict; title: Debtors' prisons; title: pt. 2. War of 1812; title: The town that fooled the British; title: Sir Peter Parker's fateful Letter; title: Kitty Knight; title: The battle fought after war's end; title: pt. 3. Divided Delmarva : the Civil War era; title: Thomas McCreary : notorious slave catcher and kidnapper; title: Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad; title: Clara Gunby Huffington : spy for the Confederacy; title: Lincoln's "My dear lady"; title: Caveman of the Civil War; title: pt. 4. Disasters, shipwrecks, and mayhem; title: The great gale of 1878 and the sinking of the Express; title: The rise and fall of the peach barons; title: Delaware's Coin Beach; title: Cannibals on Assateague; title: Lightning causes airline crash; title: pt. 5. Monsters and myths; title: Chessie; title: Oyster wars; title: James Michener's Chesapeake and the house full of canned fruit; title: The horses that Swam Ashore; title: pt. 6. Ghosts, murders, and mysteries; title: Haunted historical society; title: The mysterious Cosden murders; title: Andrew Jackson's duelist meets his match; title: Searching for Blackbeard's treasure; title: The drowned town.