Layday at St Michael’s

St Michael’s is located on the Miles River and is named for the Archangel St Michael after the Christ Episcopal Church of St Michael the Archangel parish founded in 1677. The town is full of historic homes, inns, restaurants, very unique shoppes and has a brewery and a winery. It is also home to the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum so lots going on in this busy harbor. The picture of the signage gives you an idea of how quaint the town is.

The Museum is currently building the new Maryland Dove , a representation of the vessel that accompanied the first European settlers to Maryland in 1634. Quite the project that will take approximately three years with twelve full time expert shipwrights. A wonderful display of various skipjacks and the 1879 Hooper Strait Lighthouse are right there to view. The campus itself is 18 acres and the perfect place for families to picnic and play.

Union jacks are flying everywhere! St Mary’s Park is the location of one of the two cannons commemorating “ the town that fooled the British” during the War of 1812. The story goes that when the British began shelling St Michael’s in 1813 the residents placed lanterns into the tops of the trees in order to fool the redcoats into shooting too high. The private home called Cannonball House has the evidence! The person on the bench is not Nandad. 

Another picture of the wooden boats at the museum. That is Nandad in the background and the Hooper Lighthouse.

This afternoon Nana and Nandad are taking a small watercraft tour of the harbor. Leaving for Chesapeake City tomorrow but this spot sure deserves a stop another time.