St. Michaels Map and History

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On the broad Miles River, with its picturesque tree-lined streets and beautiful harbor, St. Michaels has been a haven for boats plying the Chesapeake and its inlets since the earliest days. Here, some of the handsomest models of the Bay craft, such as canoes, bugeyes, pungys and some famous Baltimore Clippers, were designed and built. The Church, named “St. Michael’s,” was the first building erected (about 1677) and around it clustered the town that took its name.

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crime of drunkenness . . . committed under my command,” he did not hesitate to order lashes applied with a will, if not with relish. He said the Navy went into decline after Congress outlawed cat-o-nine-tails in 1850. He found it ineffective to “mollycoddle” offenders in irons on bread and water.

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On sea duty, he doubtless participated in wardroom debates on the “peculiar institution.” One shipmate he may have argued with was his older brother, T. McKean Buchanan, named for their grandfather, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Franklin and

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