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Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: July 13, 2014
Caption: High Anxiety
Additional Description: The War of 1812 distressed plantation owners. The British blockade prevented them from selling tobacco abroad. Enemy raiders devastated plantations and tobacco storehouses and lured away enslaved workers. The Calverts feared Riversdale might be at risk, but the British eyed bigger targets. Mrs. Calvert wrote: "We hardly suffered at all."Close-up of Gerry Embleton painting on marker
Submitted: July 14, 2014, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p279021
File Size: 1.636 Megabytes

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