Five Minute Histories: Chesapeake Bay Oyster Wars

[@jacquelinecapel5282]

Wow! This is a story I'd never heard of! It would make a great movie!

[@baltimoreheritage1006]

Wouldn't it?!?

[@JohnDrummondVA]

I am sure I had family on both sides of the state line (and of the Bay) participating in this story.

[@johnmay3266]

My mom was born on Tilghman Island in 1917. Her father and brothers were watermen. I heard these stories from them but thought it was BS. Thanks for correcting me.

[@baltimoreheritage1006]

It's hard to imagine, isn't it?

[@michaelbrand8279]

Thanks for another informative video!

[@baltimoreheritage1006]

Thanks for watching!

[@StevenvonBriesen]

Awesome! Thanks!

[@greggwilhelm1920]

This might be a quintessential Baltimore and Chesapeake Bay story worthy of cinematic treatment. I know of nonfiction and novel treatments. Does anyone have a script?

[@jacquelinecapel5282]

I agree.

[@lwoodt1]

Why don't they raise the hull and have it on display. The wars were an interesting bit of the bays history.

[@wooderdsaunders4640]

On Essex /Middle River neighborhood there is a legend of a pirate " Captian Stemmers", . Steamers run middle school is named after him and its yearbook had a Buckineer as it logo. Was he a real pirate or an oyster pirate? I had also heard he was a bootlegger. Do you have anything on ghost subject?

[@kiowa1508]

“Johns Hopkins”? And you’re a Baltimore historian? 😜🤣🤣

[@michaelwasiljov8633]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_Davidson