Tidewater by steamboat
Subtitle: a saga of the Chesapeake : the Weems line on the Patuxent, Potomac, and Rappahannock
By: David C. Holly.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press in association with the Calvert Marine Museum; The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Baltimore, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
Subjects: Weems Steamboat Company -- History.; Steamboat lines -- Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.) -- History.; Steamboats -- Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.) -- History.
Description: "The name Weems, and the Weems line," writes David C. Holly, "symbolized nearly the entire epoch of the steamboat on the Chesapeake." The Weems line began in Baltimore in 1819, as steamboats first appeared on the Chesapeake and its rivers. It was sold to the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1905, at the height of the steamboat's "Golden Age," though its boats continued to serve the Bay until the 1930s. Illustrated with maps, drawings, and rare photographs, Tidewater by Steamboat is the vivid portrait of life on the Patuxent, the Potomac, and the Rappahannock, where Weems boats sailed and the course of the American republic was set.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-305) and index.