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John Holden, Benjamin's grandson, started a commercial fishery on the island and in 1924 surveyed a section which he called Holden Beach Resort, the plat of which represented the first subdivision of beach property in Brunswick County. In 1925, he built the Holden Beach bridge; it was subsequently destroyed by the Inland Waterway construction.
Maintenance of harbor channels and navigation aids began early. Dredging in the harbor can be traced back as far as 1783, when the Ellicott brothers (of Ellicott Dredges) excavated the bottom at their wharf in the Inner Harbor. In 1790, the state government began systematic dredging using a "mud machine", which used a horse-drawn drag bucket ...
Baltimore's Inner Harbor seen from Federal Hill with the Washington Monument in the background in 1849 The Inner Harbor neighborhood is centered on a tourism-friendly plaza that surrounds part of the harbor. While Baltimore has been a major U.S. seaport since the 18th century, the historically shallow water of the Inner Harbor prior to its ...
Pier 9 Books, an alternate name for Murdoch Books Pier 9 (Baltimore) , once Baltimore's arrival dock for incoming immigrants -- see Kerry Range . Topics referred to by the same term
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Location: originally at the mouth of the Patapsco River in the Chesapeake Bay; relocated to the Inner Harbor in Baltimore, Maryland: Coordinates (current) (original): Tower; Constructed: 1856 : Foundation: screw-pile: Construction: wrought-iron (originally cast-iron): Automated: 1949: Height: 40 ft (12 m): Shape: cylindrical house: Heritage: National Register of Historic Places listed place ...
The first Baltimore Oriole reported sighting of the season was actually ahead of season, with report by a very surprised birder on Feb. 2 coming in from Lowell.
Lockwood Folly River or Lockwood's Folly River is a short tidal river in Brunswick County, North Carolina, United States.Waters from the Green Swamp drain into the river near Supply and flow southward to empty into the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway near Sunset Harbor.