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Library
We continue to collect and preserve documents and materials (audio and visual) of historical significance pertaining to the maritime heritage of our local area.
Priority
Harvesting the Chesapeake Larry Chowning
Deadrise and Crossplanked Larry Chowning
Specific Chesapeake and its shores subjects – non-fiction only
| - Boats | |
| - Boatbuilding | |
| - Watermen and their families | |
| - Flora and fauna | |
| - History | |
| - Archeology | |
| - Geology | |
| - Sea Chanties |
Additionally, we hope to have a very limited collection of outstanding books on general historical ships and wooden boat building techniques.
Books we would like to add (LISTED BY TITLE) - Similar books are welcomed!
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A Chesapeake Family and their Slaves: A Study in Historical Archaeology
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Yentsch, Elizabeth |
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A Family Story of Tangier Island
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Jander, Anne Hughes |
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A Place in Time: Middlesex County Va. 1650-1750
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Rutman, Darrett & Rutman, Anita |
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A Portrait of Deltaville – 2001 edition (we have the 1976)
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Amazing Grace: Smith Island and the Chesapeake Watermen
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Wolf, Bernard |
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American Sea Songs and Chanteys
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Shay, Frank |
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Amphibians and Reptiles of the Carolinas and Virginia
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Martof, Bernard |
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An Island Out of Time: A Memoir of Smith Island in the Chesapeake
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Horton, Tom |
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Batteaux: That Old Time Boating on the James
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Brown, David E |
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Books by Chapelle, Howard
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We lost 12 : many out of print. Any Chapelle book not on our "have" list would be treasured. |
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Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia
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Harriot, Thomas |
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Canoe Rig: The Essence and the Art: Sailpower for Antique and Traditional Canoes
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Bradshaw, Todd E |
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Canoeing the Indian Way
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Pulling, Pierre |
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Capt. John Smith: Jamestown and the Birth of the American Dream
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Hoobler, Thomas & Dorothy |
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Chesapeake
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Davidson, Cameron |
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Chesapeake Bay
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Grieser, Robert |
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Chesapeake Bay in the Civil War
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Mills, Eric |
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Chesapeake Bay: Nature of the Estuary: A field guide
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White, Christopher |
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Chesapeake Bay Sailing Craft
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Brewington, M. V. |
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Chesapeake Bay Schooners
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Snediker, Quentin & Jensen, Anne |
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Chesapeake Cruise
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Hillm Norman Alan |
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Chesapeake Invader (the meteorite crater)
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Poag, Wylie |
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Chesapeake Men: Their Stories - Their Memories
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Parks, Don |
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Chesapeake People
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Parks, Don |
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Chesapeake Pre-History: Old Traditions, New Directions
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Dent, Richard |
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Chesapeake Sailing Craft
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Burgess, Robert H |
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Chesapeake Wildlife: Stories of Survival and Loss
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Vojtech, Pat |
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Chesapeake: Exploring the Water Trail of Captain John Smith
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Williams, John Page |
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Chesapeake Winds and Tides
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Parks, Don |
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Classic American Runabouts, Wood Boats 1915-1965
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Ballantyne, Philip B. |
| Colonial Chesapeake Society |
Carr, Lois Green; Morgan,Jean B. ed |
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Confederate Seadog: John Taylor Wood in War and Exile
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Bell, John |
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Crosscurrents in Quiet Water
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White, Dan |
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Discovering the Chesapeake Bay: History of an Ecosystem
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Curtin, Phillip D. |
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Dogwatch and Liberty Days
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Creighton, Margaret |
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Everyman's Book of Sea Songs
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Baker, Richard Miall, Antony |
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Field Guide to the submerged Vegetation of Chesapeake Bay
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Hurley, Linda |
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Follow the Water
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Lang, Varley |
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Fossil Sharks of the Chesapeake Bay Region
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Kent, Bretton |
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Governor's Island: Gwynn's Island, Virginia during the Revolution
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Wrike, Peter Jennings |
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Historical Archaeology of the Chesapeake
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Historic Buildings in Middlesex County
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Ryland, et al |
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History and Progress in Mathews County
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Mathews County Historical Society |
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How to Build a Skipjack
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Davis, Charles G. |
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In the Path of History, Virginia between the Rappahannock and Potomac
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Netherton, Nan |
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Jamestown, The Buried Truth
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Kelso, William M. |
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John Smith's Chesapeake Voyages 1607-1609
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Roundtree, Helen Mountford, C & K |
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Lancaster County, Virginia
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Jett, Carolyn H. |
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Landfall along the Chesapeake: In the Wake of Captain John Smith
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Schmidt, Susan |
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Life and Death of the Chesapeake Bay
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Schubel, J. R |
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Lost Lighthouses
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Harrison, Tim & Jones, Ray |
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Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pochhontas and the Start of a New Nation
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Price, David A. |
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Marshes
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Burt, William |
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Molluscan Paleontology of the Chesapeake Miocene
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Petuch, E & Drolshagen, Mardie |
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Native Trees, Shrubs and Vines: A Guide to using, growing and propagating North American Plants
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Cullina, William |
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Notes on the State of Virginia
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Jefferson, Thomas |
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Plants of the Chesapeake Bay: a guide to wildflowers, grasses, aquatic vegetation, trees, shrubs and other flora
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Musselman,John & Knopper, David |
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Pocahontas: Medicine Woman, Spy, Entrepreneur, Diplomat
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Allen, Paula Gunn |
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Salt Tide
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Badger, Curtis |
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Sea Songs and Ballads
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Stone, Christopher |
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Sea Songs and Shanties
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Whall, A. B. |
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Shantymen and Shantyboys
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Dorflinger, William |
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Shipshape and Bristol Fashion
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Borland, Loran C. |
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Skiffs and Schooners
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Culler, R. D. |
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Songs of the Sailor and Lumbermen
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Dorflinger, William |
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Sunup to Sundown: Watermen of the Chesapeake
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Blackistone, Mick |
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Tangier Island
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Shores, David L. |
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Tertiary Stratigraphy and Paleontology, Chesapeake Bay Region, Virginia and Maryland
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Ward |
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The Bay: A Naturalist Discovers a universe of life
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Klingel, Gilbert C. |
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The Best Loved American folk songs
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Lomax, John Avery |
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The Book of Navy Songs
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The Trident Society |
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The Bounty of the Chesapeake: Fishing in Colonial Virginia
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Wharton, James |
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The Chanty Man Sings
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Meloney, William Brown IV |
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The Chesapeake Bay Crater: Geology and Geophisics of a Late Eocene Submarine Impact structure
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Koeberi & Wolf |
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The Chesapeake in the 17th Century
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Tate, Tadd & Ammerman, David |
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The Complete works of Captain John Smith (1580-1631)
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Barbour, Phillip L. |
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The Confederate Navy: A pictorial history
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Stern, Phillip Van Doren |
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The Firest Seventeen Years, Virginia 1607-1624
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Hatch, Charles E., Jr. |
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The Jamestown Adventure
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Southern, Ed, editor |
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The Last Generation: a History of a Chesapeake Bay Shipbuilding Family
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Footner, Geoffrey |
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The Outlaw Gunner
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Walsh, Harry M. |
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The Oxford Book of Sea Songs
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Palmer, Roy |
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The Transformation of Virginia 1740-1790
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Isaac, Rhys |
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The Virgiinia Adventure; Roanoke to James Towne: an Archaeological and Historical Odyssey
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Hume, Ivor Noel |
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The Workboats of Smith Island
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Johnson, Paula J. |
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They Live by the Wind
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Bradley, Wendell P. |
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Tobacco Coast: A Maritime History of Chesapeake Bay in the Colonial Era
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Middleton, Arthus Peirce |
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Urbanna, A Port Town in Virginia, 1680-1980
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Ryland, Evelyn |
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Voices of the Chesapeake Bay
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Buckley, Michael |
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Won't You Help Me Raise 'em |
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