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• Delmarva Today: Edition #38 (8/5/16)

  Posted on August 4, 2016 by haroldwilson in Delmarva Today.

  Harold Wilson’s guest is Jack Shaum author of, Lost Chester River Steamboats, discussing the great steamboats that plied the Chesapeake Bay and particularly the Chester River. For over a hundred years, beginning in 1813 these ships worked the rivers of the bay carrying fruit, grains, crabs, and oysters. And for a dollar, passengers could cross the […]

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