Steam, Stone, and Wood

Steam, Stone, and Wood: 19th Century Commerce in Port Deposit, Maryland, by Fred Kelso, Hengwrt Publishing Co., Oxford, Pennsylvania, 2009, eBook only

Formerly titled “Port Deposit Collections: Trade and Commerce” (1997). Includes 5 articles originally published in the Port Deposit Post newspaper:

Port Deposit Granite (the beautiful bluish-grey building stone still to be seen in architectural gems throughout the mid-Atlantic region such as the old Mt. Royal Station of the B&O Railroad in Baltimore, the Lincoln Tunnel in New York City, the Catholic University buildings in Washington, DC, Fort McHenry, Naval Academy buildings in Annapolis, and many churches throughout the region)

The Rock Run Covered Bridge at Port Deposit (spanning 3,600 feet across the Susquehanna River, begun in 1817 by Theodore Burr)

The Lumber Schooners (scow schooners that transported white pine lumber from the Port Deposit sawmills in the 1830s, the logs for which had been rafted down the Susquehanna from northern towns such as Williamsport, Pennsylvania)

Railroads on the Lower Susquehanna (beginning with the Baltimore and Port Deposit Railroad in 1834)

Steamboats in Port Deposit Harbor, A Century of Service (starting with the Norfolk in 1820 and the Port Deposit, built in Baltimore with a Watchman and Bratt engine in 1822)