The Chesapeake Delaware Canal: The World's Busiest Maritime Highway | America Over The Edge

[Music] the stunning Waters of the Chesapeake Bay from the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal to the open Waters of the bay and the towns cities and Estates surrounding preserving the Chesapeake Bay's Maritime Heritage we have the largest collection of indigenous Chesapeake watercraft in the world exploring the cultural fabric of Baltimore artists participate in artivism you know activist through what we create and the birthplace of a civil rights Pioneer Harriet Tubman was a conductor on the Underground Railroad she took over 300 slaves to freedom now 50,000 km of Eastern Coastline are revealed from above an aerial Journey over America's rugged Atlantic Frontier this is America over the edge [Music] Edge just inland from the United States Atlantic Coast the Chesapeake Delaware canal connects the Delaware River and the City of Philadelphia with the Chesapeake Bay and the city of Baltimore this narrow man-made Canal is located at the Northern end of the Del Marva Peninsula it was designed to eliminate the 500 km Maritime Route Around the Delaware Maryland Shoreline and from above we can appreciate the scope of this [Music] effort a 22 km long project that began as a shallow channel in the early 19th century over time the Waterway has expanded to the 10 M deep 137 M wide passage that exists [Music] today the Chesapeake Delaware Canal is the busiest of its kind for marine traffic in the world used by 15,000 vessels each year as a result six Bridges have been built above to accommod at land [Music] traffic the William V Roth Jr Bridge also known simply as the CND D Canal Bridge is a concrete and cable stayed structure nearly 1.5 km long it is 30 m High designed to allow vessels traveling from Philadelphia to Baltimore safe passage [Music] below and to the West the Chesapeake and Delaware lift bridge is a different type of span Al together it is the only draw bridge left on the canal used to carry the norfol southern rail line on approach train Engineers must contact the bridge Authority and the span is lowered but once rail traffic is passed the span slides up the Bridge's outer structure to its current position providing 30 m clearance below continuing West a bend in the Chesapeake Delaware Canal marks a political boundary as we leave Delaware and enter the state of [Music] Maryland and in Maryland just beyond Chesapeake City the canal reaches its westernmost point here the waters widen as we trace the Contours of the Elk River from the sky the natural Splendor of the Chesapeake Bay Region begins to appear from the Maryland Mainland on the left to the Elk Neck Peninsula on the right and 15 km Southwest the elk neck Peninsula leads to Turkey Point here the Turkey Point light is an Historic Landmark Rising 39 M above the [Music] water it has been guiding Mariners since 1833 and marks a geographic boundary as we leave the Elk River behind and soar above the vast Waters of the Chesapeake [Music] Bay heading Southwest from Turkey Point we trace the Eastern Shoreline of the Chesapeake Bay from high above we gain a unique understanding of the Landscapes and communities lining this Inland Coast flying over Cecil County Farmland extends as far as the eye can [Music] see this northeast corner of Maryland devotes onethird of its land some 76,000 acres to agriculture Farmers here produce corn soybeans and wheat in total Agriculture and Cecil county is worth more than $113 million each year moving down the coast we see a unique geographic feature of the bay peninsulas creeks and inlets Branch out in all directions forming a sprawling Scenic [Music] coast and at the southern edge of Kent County the town known as the pearl of the Chesapeake appears on the horizon Rock Hall was an important center of trade as far back as the American Revolution exporting local agricultural products as well as animal skins from the west and tobacco brought from the south today Rock Hall is a sailing fishing and Recreation town home to some 1300 [Music] people continuing South we leave the Maryland Mainland on approach to Eastern neck [Music] Island here the Eastern neck Wildlife Refuge is part of the larger chesapeak Marsh land's National Wildlife Refuge from above we can see the change in landscape trees growing up from soft Wetlands surrounded by tiny [Music] streams the Eastern neck Wildlife Refuge measures 2,285 acres and helps protect 243 species of birds [Music] further offshore we soar high above the Chesapeake Bay as well as the sheltered Waters of Eastern Bay and the miles River here we explore a cultural feature of the bay the life of the Chesapeake Bays Waterman [Music] well a waterman is our term for a commercial fisherman and that encompasses anything from oysters to clams to crabs to eels to fish all of the Fisheries it encompasses all the Fisheries right here in the in the Chesapeake Bay Region it is a tradition that goes back Generations the traditions of a Chesapeake Bay Waterman go back pre- Civil War um at one time in fact there's pictures from Captain John Smith when he came up to Chesapeake Bay and stories of there's drawings of the Indians harvesting crabs and oysters and stories of when Captain John Smith when they got low on food harvesting oysters so I suppose they were the first Waterman after the Civil War many of the newly freed slaves turned to the water to make a living because even though slavery their emancipation had been declared they still couldn't just go out and get a job but to Chesapeake Bay don't know what color you are so out there they went and harvest Seafood they did and they became Waterman just the same they work right alongside 1865 they work right alongside of a white Waterman and they've been treated equal on the Chesapeake Bay ever since today thousands of watermen work the Waters of the Chesapeake Bay the job changes each season and it's never easy in this general area mostly TR lawning is done and a TR honor day starts between 3:00 and 3:30 a.m. he goes out catch he lays his line he goes over and over back and forth up and down his line until about lunchtime maybe 1:00 then he pulls his lineup with whatever amount of crabs he has hopefully enough to pay his bills and at that point he comes home and spends three or four more hours baiting up his Trot Line to be ready for the next day and fueling up and getting his basket selling his crabs so if he really hustles quick he can make it in into a 12-hour day but most of them are 14 hours I think that's an interesting thing this one piece will make 52 layers watch on mobile devices or the big screen all for free no subscription required it is a tough job it's it's commercial fishing it is dangerous and it's not just dangerous but it's a challenging way of life and that's what it is it's not just a job it's a way of life it's it's what what we it's who we are along with what we do and we're doing our best through legislation and public awareness and environmental issues to try to hand that Heritage down to the Next [Music] Generation and here in the town of St Michael one facility is dedicated to the preservation of the fishing traditions of the Chesapeake Bay Richard scoffield is with the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum Museum tries to preserve the culture of the Chesapeake Bay primarily the uh Waterman's culture the harvesting of the bay we have the largest collection of indigenous Chesapeake watercraft in the world if you want to preserve that culture and understand that culture the most viable symbol that are the workboats and we have pretty much one of every Style on [Music] display to maintain the Museum's incredible collection of watercraft there's a working Boatyard on site Mike Gorman a former shipwright Apprentice here runs this one-of-a-kind [Music] operation so as you walk around campus here you're going to see 13 boats um ranging in size from like 26 foot up to Edna Lockwood which is built in 1889 and they're all collected for their great stories and their importance to the bay and in this shop right here is where we do all the maintenance on them we do all the major restoration work all the timber work and in and moving forward we're even going to have a sawmill here so we'll be taking everything right from a tree right to the boats that we own the whole process so the latest project we did over the winter was this log canoe and this is a uh indigenous craft that we sort of stole from the Native Americans here where they do Dugout canoes and when the Europeans came they took logs and pinned them together because they wanted bigger boats we did this project as practice uh for building with logs cuz we're going to be doing a rebuild of our Edna Lockwood bug eye which is 60 foot and it's nine log pinned together that was built in 1889 so this is all sort of R&D and kind of a good example of what we do at the Museum is preserving not only boats but uh craft and the way that it would have been done originally inside Gorman is putting the finishing touches on the project so we built a set of masks here for the log canoe we just looked at and we went out racing and The Masks are just a bit too heavy so what we're going to do is start changing the shape of this mask and getting it lightened up for uh so we can go faster you know you can see what I'm doing we're just changing the shape down to make it make it a lot lighter I got into boat building through kind of always um all my educations and working with my hands uh a lot of furniture building and then went end up going to trade school for um boat building after I graduated from boat building school I went sailing and ran out of money about like 5 miles from here and uh kind of came in and got a job as an apprentice here I think when you're building a boat seeing the bigger picture is a huge huge importance in it um if you focus on all these little pieces along the way you'll be doing forever but once you grasp that bigger picture and how everything works together your job will be a lot easier for you back in the water the bigger picture can be seen in the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum's floating Fleet a dozen amazing watercraft one of those vessels is the Rosie Parks built in 1955 and recently restored to its original state [Music] today Richard scoffield is assessing the work roosie parks's the museum skipjack she is when she was bought by the museum in 1975 she's one of the most famous Skipjacks around she was she's very fast she went a lot of the races um worked for 20 years it's good to see her back in the water she is as skip Jacks go she's really really pretty skip Jacks Are the classic boat we for Dred and oysters now in the 20th century 21st century now they're vbottom dead rise hulls plank for left on the top sides and cross planked on the bottom they're very easy hul to build um they were somewhat disposable if they lasted 30 years you made a lot of money on it and he built a new one on board Mike Gorman paints a picture of this success story so what's different is it's the last working sailboat that dredges oysters in America in North America actually I believe the rollers over there on the rail is where the dredges go over and during the working season which is not oyster season right now there'd be winders right here so the dredges go over the rollers drag behind under sail then you kick the winders on and it pulls them in and then the crew of four dumps the dredges right here and they call through and pick out all the good oysters put them in bushel baskets and they sit on deck and they they dredge all day as far as a sailboat it being a sailboat this is called a Lego mutton rig it's just a really huge Sloop rig skip Jacks Are Always all different but they're all built to the same parameters so basically what you do is you decide how big of a boat you want and everything else is built to that right now we're operating under uh full sale with no jib if we were out working right now we'd probably have two or three reefs in the main and have the jib up with a reef in it it's uh more about power than speed for these boats working here on the miles we don't dredge oysters anymore so it's nice to be out on a skip Jack in the miles River for Richard scoffield and Mike Gorman the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is conducting important research and restoration key to preserving the cultural traditions of the Chesapeake Bay they hope it will continue into the future this my hometown the museum was started by very good friends of my grandparents I mean it's been part of my life since it started I work on Wooden Boats this this is what I do it's important to preserve the boats that we have here and sort of the culture in general because um the way that the population's expanding and the access to this region which was so isolated for so long and it's rapidly changing more and more uh families that were sort of rooted in the Eastern Shore moving away that really distinct determination of the people is stared to dissolve and a lot of their Customs are going with it so what we try and do here is collect uh artifacts but also the stories and the Traditions as well and it's all really important to show people that 10 km south of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum we explore the settlements along the Bay's Eastern Shore the town of Oxford is one of the oldest European settlements in the state founded in 1683 it was named the Eastern Chesapeake Bay's First International Port by the Maryland State Assembly the town quickly became a bustling Marine Hub with British vessels coming and [Music] going up until the American Revolution Oxford was a major Center for international trade centuries later from the sky it is clear that seafaring Legacy lives on Oxford is known as a vacation destination drawing recreational boers from all over the Chesapeake Bay and south of Oxford the modern-day wealth and prosperity of the region can be seen all along the Chesapeake East Coast incredible mansions and Estates line the inlets creeks and winding waterways [Music] here while some of these homes can be seen from the roadways lining the coast the true scope of these Chesapeake Estates can only be understood from a bird's eye view this stretch of chapek has been admired for its beauty for centuries documented by Explorer John Smith who wrote Heaven and Earth never agreed better to frame a place for man's [Music] habitation next we head east from the bay up the Choptank River on route to the city of Cambridge like Oxford it is a Maryland community with centuries of tradition the Choptank Native Americans who the river is named after were the first to inhabit these Shores they were followed by English colonists who built elaborate plantations growing tobacco and other crops but those plantations required labor and Cambridge became a major center for the slave [Music] trade today reminders of that Legacy can be seen throughout the Cambridge region especially in the village of Bucktown which marks the birthplace of one of America's great civil rights Pioneers one of the most famous residents in Dorchester county is Harriet Tubman Harriet Tubman was a conductor on the Underground Railroad she came back 19 times said she took over 300 slaves to freedom she came back and forth for her family and um we're here in front of the Bucktown Village door because this is a site where she committed her first known Act of [Music] defiance and inside the Village Store motos of the era and stories of Tubman's life are [Music] preserved so my favor part of the store when people come in is I like to show them the dip in the floor and how many people it would take to make an a dip in the floor like that that's come in before you this is the original store they believe that it was probably about an 1860 remodel so during the end of the Civil War it was remodeled Susan represents the fourth generation of merediths to maintain this store she says they have worked hard to care for these symbols of the past and momentos from the lives of slaves who lived in Bucktown historians believe that this Mort is something that was tribal that was brought here an innovation by the slaves and so we don't have the pestl but the grain is still in it it was in a house in Cambridge and we brought it bought it right out of the slave quarters and so um we believe that this was an innovation brought here by them to grind and Mill the corn and wheat and so this is actually out of a slave cabin and um it's absolutely authentic but some symbols reveal a frightening reality for black residents of this era so these are slave tags so slave tags would be like when you were in school and you had a pass to go to the bathroom then they would ask you what are you doing here and where's your pass so slaves wore them around their neck they always said where the slave was from so if they had run away people would take them back to where the slave tags said so they wore them around their neck and that gave them permission to go places and nobody would ask them anything because they had permission to be away and it was in this store that Harriet Tubman also known as minty was recorded performing Her First Act of defiance on the way to becoming a civil rights Pioneer here in Bucktown she had been leased to a local slave owner least is when um you belong to a slave owner but somebody in the neighborhood needs extra work work so they pay you to use your slave so that's what she was doing but she was only 13 and he was using her to work with flax and the day that she um was in here she's in here shopping there's another customer in the store and all of a sudden everybody hears this yelling and a slave boy runs in the store and when he does the overseer runs in behind him tells minty and another customer in the store to hold the boy while he whips him so she obviously was not going to hold him so she started yelling at 13 years old knowing what that could have meant to her all of a sudden the slave boy starts inching out the door and when he does Thomas Barnett grabs up the closest thing he can find which is a 2B counterweight he takes it he hurls it at the boy to stop him and accidentally hits minty right in the forehead she falls out and from that day on she suffered from narcolepsy most people um refer to it and back then they called it the dreaded sleeping disease she was asked up north if she would was um angry at the man who gave her the scar on her forehead and the dreaded sleeping disease and she said heck no God uses everything in our lives to make us who and what we are she said it's during the hardest times of your life that show what your true character is and she said if that hadn't happened to me I'd have never been successful in my life she said because you suppose that I'm asleep she said but I'm not asleep God's showing me Visions he's telling me to say this he's telling me to do that and she said so no I'm not angry with him at [Music] all Susan Meredith says say that well Bucktown is a largely remote and rural area the stories contained here are important for the future of Maryland and America The Story of Harriet Tubman um is very important to me and it should be to everybody because she was just a regular everyday average person she was no superpower she was somebody who had determination and hopes and dreams she had tradition of her family so she came back to bring bring her family into freedom and um after civil rights she started fighting for women's rights and um she was just somebody that I would say most people would say wore rose-colored [Music] glasses back to the Chesapeake Shoreline and moving North we head for Maryland state capital Annapolis also known as America's sailing [Music] capital along the way beyond the Thomas Shaw lighthouse we encounter a great example of that seaf fairing [Music] Heritage this is the tall ship Pride of Baltimore 2 also known as America's Star Spangled Ambassador it's a recreation of an8 1812 era top sale Schooner a class of ship known as a Baltimore Clipper popular during the War of 1812 The Pride of Baltimore 2 was commissioned in 1988 to replace its predecessor The Pride of Baltimore that was sunk tragically off Puerto Rico from the sky we get a a rare perspective of a maritime Masterpiece 33 M long 8 m across and more than 900 square m of [Music] sail it is amazing to imagine a vessel like this chasing down British ships in the Chesapeake Bay In the Heat of battle since its construction The Pride of Baltimore 2 has sailed more than 300,000 km and visited 200 ports in 40 countries 100,000 guests board the ship each year The Pride of Baltimore 2 is recognized around the world with a mission to promote historical Maritime education and represent the people of [Music] Maryland finally 50 km Northwest of Cambridge Maryland on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay we reach the city of Annapolis here another style watercraft leads us to this historic Shoreline yard Patrol craft are a regular site on this stretch of Chesapeake Bay their legacy dates back to World War II when the US Navy convinced tuna Skippers to paint their boats gray and volunteer them for service in the war the boats served all over the world from the South Pacific to the Panama [Music] Canal today a modern Fleet of yard Patrol boats are used for realistic at Sea training for aspiring midshipman they can travel for 5 days at 12 knots covering ing 2600 km before refueling and now where the Severn River meets the Chesapeake Bay we fly high above the city of Annapolis and the US Naval [Music] Academy from the sky it is amazing to see the expanse of this facility 337 Acres of academic facilities student housing athletic fields and the most identifiable structure the academy [Music] Chapel here in a crypt beneath the Dome lies the body of John Paul Jones considered by many to be America's first naval hero and father of the American [Music] Navy [Music] today Annapolis is home to 4500 midshipman or Naval Cadets they can be seen all over the academy [Music] grounds but there is more to Anapolis than the Naval Academy just outside the gates Maryland state house marks another iconic structure it is the only state house in America still in legislative use completed in 1779 it is also the only state capital building to have also served as America's capital with the Continental Congress meeting in the old Senate chamber here from November 1783 to August 1784 just east of Annapolis and continuing North we approach a Chesapeake Bay engineering Masterpiece the only way to drive from Maryland's rural Eastern Shore to the more urban western shore is by going over the Chesapeake Bay [Music] Bridge officially known as the William Preston Lane Junior Bridge after the Maryland governor who sanctioned the project locals know it simply as the Bay Bridge this massive project was proposed more than a century ago but was delayed twice after the stock market crash of 1929 and again during World War II in 1949 construction finally began and from the air we can appreciate the magnitude of this [Music] effort the Bay Bridge took more than 3 years to complete and when the original span opened in 1952 it marked the world's longest continuous overwater steel structure at 6.9 km a second span was added due to increasing traffic volumes it was completed in [Music] 1973 from the East the parallel Bridges begin in Stevensville on Kent Island and extend to Sandy Point State Park just Northeast of [Music] Anapolis 25 km Northwest of the Bay Bridge a massive industrial complex lies at the Confluence of the Patapsco River and the Chesapeake Bay from the air we get an almost unimaginable perspective on this massive and largely abandoned site Sparrows Point was a steel making and ship building center for more than a century the Pennsylvania Steel company first began production here in 1889 and by the mid 20th century this was the largest steel mill in the world more than 6 km in length the site was chosen for its strategic location close to the city's labor force and a deep waterer Port able to bring in the essential ingredient of iron ore delivered by steamship from [Music] [Music] Cuba in addition 116 ships were built here between 1939 and [Music] 1946 at its height Sparrow's Point employed 31,000 people but with changes in the steel industry The Fortunes of Sparrow's Point [Music] declined today there is hope a major environmental restoration of the site will take place and that Sparrow's Point May someday return to its former [Music] glory now moving Northwest up the Patapsco River the Francis Scott Key bridge marks our approach to Baltimore the bridge is named after Francis Scott Key best known as the writer of the lyrics to The Star Spangled [Music] Banner it was from these Waters key watched the Battle of Baltimore into the night then awoken by the dawn's early light to see the stars and stripes still flying over the city's Fort McHenry it is remembered as one of the proudest moments in American history and just one of many moments in the unique and sometimes forgotten history of Baltimore Baltimore was founded in 1729 by Lord Baltimore um no one really wanted the land because it was it was the the soil was too poor to grow tobacco which was the biggest cash crop of that time so a lot of Germans and Scots moved in and were able to settle to cheap land from there people started to realize Iz the the city's proximity to water and how it was easy to you know be like an import export type of town and it was just a tremendous amount of opportunity which eventually led to Baltimore being America's first Boom Town Baltimore was actually the first city to reach a population of a million or more after uh Manhattan and New [Music] York and with this 18th century boom came A diversity in the demographic of the city the growth of all these brand new businesses caused a lot of uh people to sell their slaves and move a lot of slaves into the Baltimore area a lot of those slaves were able to find jobs and they actually were able to make money and buy their own freedom and then buy freedom for their family and friends as well in addition to being remembered for its role in the War of 1812 Baltimore was also key in the Civil War Baltimore actually started with the Union during the Civil War um one of those reasons is we had such a large free black population here so so it only made sense even though um some Southern parts of the state sided with the Confederate which is why um you know our city is normally considered to be a place that's too north to be South and too South to be North but in the 20th century the city fell on tough times one of the major things that really affected our city in a negative way was the failure to properly industrialize so we did have some places like can company and Bethlehem still but a lot of those factory jobs never ever really established a permanent home here and you know we see some of the long-term effects of that we tried but it just it just didn't work out D Watkins remembers those tough times vividly I grew up in the height of the crack era um I lost a lot of family members and a lot of friends uh my own my own my older brother who raised me he passed away as a result of that lifestyle and like many of my family and friends I tried my own hand in trying to work that business and I did that for a couple of years and you know with love and support for family and friends I I made it out of that luckily Watkins was able to make a change and is today part of a new generation of writers and filmmakers in the city he's part of a new charge looking to the Future and offering young people opportunities Watkins himself never experienced there's a collection of artists in Baltimore who um participate in artivism you know activist through what we create you got guys like myself like eron mabin like Devin Allen and David Manago and stoky project and all of these different people who um we incorporate social justice into the way we create and it's a double-headed monster so we're not only creating the content that's documenting this this this this time in Baltimore history but then we're also teaching those skills to people coming up when I was a kid growing up at the height of the crack era there was no there was no no writers no artists no filmmakers nobody around to to show us or you know or give us some examples of what does it take to make it as a successful artist or even to talk about how important art was I think some of the work we do is very important as far as like developing the next generation of artists and creative and creative people and being those examples who can come in those neighborhoods and and deliver those skills years after d Watkins saw the poverty and crime of Baltimore's toughest neighborhoods firsthand he says he still loves the city he calls Home Baltimore is a special place for me because you know beyond being my home it's it's it's just a City that I love it's a tough Lov City you know in most places if you're trying to do something like I'm doing as a writer and a creative person you know you get love from your surrounding community members and they try to help Propel you to the top in Baltimore that's not the case they beat you down until you're good enough to get recognized around the world and then you get the love so you know I love Baltimore for being a tough place I love Baltimore for some of the things that expose me to and just the resiliency that comes with being from this city it's made me a very very tough impatient person which pays dividends in the art world because um you know I can be rejected 20 million times and not feel a thing and that comes from being from [Music] Baltimore moving Northeast from Baltimore we explore the northern reaches of the Chesapeake Bay here at the mouth of the Susana River the city of hav of Grace is home to more than 13,000 [Music] people the city is dotted by Scenic marinas parks and the conquered Point [Music] Lighthouse in 2014 har De Grace was named in Smithsonian Magazine's list of America's 20 best small towns to visit and moving up the Susana River we get a unique Bird's eyee view of the multiple Bridges linking H to Grace with the nearby town of Perryville the Amtrak Susana River Bridge stands on the site of the first railroad bridge to cross this River with the Thomas J hadam Memorial Bridge a kilometer Beyond and just a half kilometer further up River the CSX sesana River Bridge is another rail crossing spanning the river via Garrett Island [Music] a bridge was first built here in 1886 by the historic B and O railroad then replaced with the current structure two dozen trains cross here each day linking Philadelphia and Baltimore finally the Millard e Tidings Memorial Bridge is part of Interstate 995 it is the busiest of hav or Gracie's four spans with 29 million Vehicles Crossing each year beyond the bridges we continue up River tracing the Contours of the Susana at 747 km in length the Susana is the longest river system on the East Coast that drains into the Atlantic amazingly it is also considered one of the oldest river systems in the [Music] world geologists believe the sasana was formed before the Appalachian Mountains surrounding making making it more than 300 million years old in total the river drains 71,000 square km and flows through New York Pennsylvania and [Music] Maryland and 15 km from the mouth of the Susana and the Chesapeake Bay we experience the true power of this Waterway from above here US Route 1 meets the Kingo Dam a massive hydroelectric facility completed in 1928 at the time it was the second largest facility of its kind in the United States after Niagara Falls the dam creates a 310,000 acre Reservoir up River with 11 turbines at the southern end of the facility on the northern half 53 floodgates control the flow of water from the reservoir to the river Below in total the Kingo hydroelectric plant has a generating capacity of 527 [Music] megaw finally just north of the dam we leave civilization behind and continue up the Susana River here the Susana Reservoir is lined by farmland and forested tracks of land and 8 km from the dam we reach another political boundary as we leave Maryland and the Chesapeake Bay behind and enter the state of Pennsylvania from the Chesapeake Delaware Canal to the open Waters of the Chesapeake Bay to the spectacular Contours of the suasana river the waterways of Maryland hold some of the most amazing Coastal Beauty on the entire east [Music] coast and in the sky surrounding we can truly appreciate the cultural stories of the [Music] past from Maryland's rural Eastern Shore to the heart of Baltimore and experience the seafaring traditions of today in St [Music] Michaels Anapolis and an Open [Music] Water a way of life that will continue to evolve into the future here on the edge of America [Music] [Applause] [Music]

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Keywords: Del Marva Peninsula, East Coast waterway, Philadelphia, barge traffic, boat traffic, canal history, historic canal system, industrial canal, marine industry, marine industry significance, port cities, shipping channel, shipping route, tourism adventures, trade efficiency improvement, travel, unique stories, water navigation, world stories

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Length: 50min 43sec (3043 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 18 2024