Eastern Shore · MD
St. Michaels
The town that fooled the British, on the Miles River.
- Parish founded
- 1677
- Incorporated
- 1804
- Battle of St. Michaels
- August 10, 1813
Then
- 1677
An Episcopal parish named for St. Michael the Archangel is founded. The town is laid out around it in the 1770s.
- 1700s
Shipwrights here build fast schooners later known as Baltimore clippers.
- 1813
British raiders attack before dawn on August 10. Legend says lanterns hung in the trees made their cannon overshoot.
- 1830s
A young Frederick Douglass is enslaved in and around St. Michaels.
- 1970s
Tourism takes over from the old packing houses and cannery.
Now
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, home of the bugeye Edna E. Lockwood and several skipjacks, sits on the old packing-house waterfront. A small ferry crosses from Bellevue to Oxford.
Tilghman Island, Poplar Island and the Eastern Bay are part of this stretch.
13 tide stations around St. Michaels
- St. Michaels, Miles Riverin town
- St. Michaels, San Domingo Creek0.9 mi
- Deep Neck Point, Broad Creek3.8 mi
- Claiborne, Eastern Bay4.6 mi
- Tilghman Island, Ferry Cove, Eastern Bay5.8 mi
- Oxford6.9 mi
- Easton Point7.1 mi
- Avalon, Dogwood Harbor7.9 mi
- Poplar Island8.3 mi
- Dover Bridge12.3 mi
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- Cherry Island, Beckwiths Creek15.5 mi
- Hillsboro, Tuckahoe Creek17.6 mi
- Woolford, Church Creek19.5 mi