Saint George's Island History 1793-1990

Archive

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St. Mary's County Historical Society, Leonardtown, MD

Name/Title

Saint George's Island History 1793-1990

Entry/Object ID

1996.001.0025

Scope and Content

Saint George's Island History ...... 34 items St. George's Island Improvement Association Membership card with officer list and Newsletters from March 1979 and January 1984. 4 items Poem "To Saint George's Island" by C.M.D. - MD, 1 typed page. 1 item 8X10 photocopy of St. George's Island, no date. 1 item 5 handwritten pages on St. George's Island oyster history, starting in the 1920s. 1 item 5 handwritten pages compiling the settlers of St. George's from 1716-1897 and 4 handwritten pages from Walter Thomas compiled in 1965. 2 items 6-page ledger of registered boats, owner names, build date, hull number, and size, 1849-1910. 1 item Partial list of real and personal property in St. George's Hundred, 1793-1826. 1 item Report to Potomac Flotilla, Navy Yard, Washington, from Commodore Andrew A. Harwood, detailing reports forwarded by LCDR E. P. McCrea dated November 21, 1862. 1 item Report to Potomac Flotilla, Navy Yard, Washington, from Commodore Andrew A. Harwood, detailing the incident with the USS Jacob Bell on November 22, 1862, on St. George's Island at the mouth of the St. Mary's River. Seaman Rudolph Kaiser drowned, and 63 persons were taken prisoner, of whom 32 were released, dated December 1, 1862. 1 item Various documents referencing churches in the St. George's Island area (i.e., St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church, St. George's Island Baptist Church, St. George's Island Episcopal Church, Thomas Chapel, and a picture of St. George's Island Methodist Church, St. Andrews Episcopal Church, Trinity Church). 10 items Documents from St. Mary's County Metcom, concerning Piney Point Sanitation and public sewers, 1983 - 1990. 4 items A Tribute to Captain William B. Chesser by anonymous, undated. 1 item Coast Guard Station Piney Point 141st celebration. 1 item Letter from John L. Reynolds, Harbor of Baltimore, to Mr. Rex Adams concerning dead waterborne vegetation on the Potomac River, dated August 27, 1962. v Typed note as a reminder to draft a letter to Mr. Lyman Fisher, U.S. Naval Ordnance Lab, concerning underwater acoustic tests, dated April 8, 1980. 1 item Two sheets documenting St. George's Island residents who served during World War I and II, dated August 15, 1979. 1 item. St. Mary's Fact sheet referencing a Steuart Refinery dated 1974. 1 item Newspaper article on Pollution at Piney Point dated June 19, 1969. 1 item

Collection

Charles R. and Celestine M. Adams Collection

Location

Container

C. R. and C. M. Adams Collection, Box 1

Shelf

Rack 02, Shelf 3

Rack

Rack 02

Wall

South wall

Room

Archives 1

Building

Tudor Hall

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Cropper, Dale, Harwood, Andrew A. (Commodore), Kaiser, Rudolph (Seaman)