Saint Michaels: Attractions and more...
Cannonball House
The manor is historic; it was built in the early 19th century. The styling of the home is of Federal style. With a side-hall double-parlor design on a corner lot, it was constructed for shipbuilder William Merchant. It is historically important for an 1813 event in the War of 1812, a cannonball embedded in the house, by the British convoy when they attacked Saint Michaels.
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum
It is a habitat for the collection of vessels, exhibits and artifacts of Chesapeake Bay. This interactive museum, spread over 18-acre of land was founded in 1965 on Navy Point. It was once a site of seafood packing houses, docks, and work boats. The Museum provides interactive displays in and around the 35 buildings and is a proud owner of the world’s largest collection of Bay boats. Another feature of the Museum is that it offers 12 months of educational seminars and workshops.
Hooper Strait Lighthouse
The screw pile lighthouse was built in 1880. Initially the structure was planned and developed in Baltimore, which was later taken apart and re-erected at the site in the month of October in 1880. It has a Fresnel lens of a fifth-order. Keepers are banned to have relatives living with them. Groceries were rationed and arrived once a week from the mainland, drinking, bathing and cooking , water for these purposes had to be accumulated from the roof's rain gutters.
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