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May 6, 2024 · ANNAPOLIS, Md. — A new story map chronicles 65 historically Black beaches and other places of Black historical significance in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, including portions of New York ...
- Chesapeake Conservancy
- The Black History of The Chesapeake Bay
- Black Beaches During Jim Crow
- Recreation Options For Black Urbanites
- Preserving The Region’S Black History
The Chesapeake Bay watershed is a network of over 100,00 rivers and streams spanning six mid-Atlantic states and Washington, D.C. These waterways flow through major cities like Baltimore and Annapolis and include rivers such as the Potomac, the Patuxent and the Susquehanna. Eventually, these rivers empty into the Chesapeake Bay, a brackishbody of w...
In the late 19th century, many of the Chesapeake region’s social and leisure activities revolved around rivers. White entrepreneurs refitted cargo ships to offer river excursions, which became a popular form of entertainment for Black churchgoers and members of social clubs, while white land developers like L.J. Woolen converted the landing sites f...
Highland remained a small, affluent community for much of its existence. In 1922, Osborn T. Taylor purchased the remaining land owned by the Brashear family, just south of Highland, and established Venice Beach as another haven for Black elites. These towns’ exclusivity led to the establishment of other Black beaches on Maryland’s Western Shore. Ca...
The Chesapeake Bay’s Black beaches continued to serve as an oasis throughout the Jim Crow era. YMCA Camp Clarissa Scott, for example, brought young girls to Highland Beach for several weeks in the summer. Rachel Seidman, a curator of women’s environmental history at the Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum, describes the camp as a way for “uppe...
May 13, 2024 · Explore the map of historic Black sites for yourself. View the story map chronicling 65 historically Blackbeaches and other places of Black historical significance in the Chesapeake Bay watershed ...
May 6, 2024 · Blacks of the Chesapeake Foundation and Chesapeake Conservancy Partner to Shine a Light on Undertold Stories of the Chesapeake. Annapolis, MD—A new story map chronicles 65 historically Black beaches and other places of Black historical significance in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, including portions of New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia.
The Chesapeake Bay region is a significant setting in African-American history. The region was a gateway for the first Black people brought from Africa to the colonies. Throughout the mid-1800s, the Bay and its rivers were important pathways along the Underground Railroad. After the war, newly emancipated Black people found their way to the ...
Another effort, to be undertaken by Cheryl A. Snowden, another Black historian at the Beach, is using a city grant also to research specifically, the history of the oldest Black community in that city, which dates back to the War of 1812. Her project is called “Project Seajack.”. Eventually their labor of love will be written as research ...
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Sep 15, 2017 · Artisan Workers in the Upper South: Petersburg, Virginia, 1820-1865 (2008) by Diane Barnes looks at four classes of artisans in Antebellum Petersburg, including the largest free black community as a percentage of its population in Virginia, which in turn had the largest free black population in the South. Other artisan classes were skilled slaves for hire, white wage earners, and master ...
