This morning I took a short drive up Hwy 40 (Pulaski Hwy) to the small town of Havre De Grace, located at the mouth of the 444 mile long Susquehanna River and the head of Chesapeake Bay. Havre De Grace was named after the port city of LaHavre, France and was the northernmost area explored by Captain John Smith in 1608. It became a town in 1798. In 1840 the town became known as an important commercial intersection for transporting goods and people. Havre De Grace was a popular recreation destination in the early 1900's attracting adventurous people for waterfowl hunting, fishing, and horse races.
80 Amtrak passenger trains speed by Havre De Grace daily as the city lies along the busy Northeast corridor.
A promenade and boardwalk run along the shore from the Concord Point lighthouse to the yacht basin. The downtown business district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. The city is home to the Decoy Museum, the Maritime Museum, the Concord Point Lighthouse (see next post), the skipjack Martha Lewis, the Lantern Queen paddle steamer, and the Lockhouse Museum.
