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Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: April 14, 2018
Caption: Tobacco Inspection Towns
Additional Description: Tobacco inspection towns like nearby Broad Creek were among Maryland’s colonial settlements. With its racially blended population, Broad Creek (1706) shipped tobacco to Europe, produced seaworthy ships, and was a commercial fishing center.

Gray’s Inn Creek Shipyard, Oil on Wood Panel. C. 1750, unknown artist. Close-up of image on marker
Submitted: April 21, 2018, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p424310
File Size: 0.748 Megabytes

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