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View of the Fishing Shore
Photographer: Benjamin Henry Latrobe
Taken: 1797
Caption: View of the Fishing Shore
Additional Description: Benjamin Henry Latrobe, “View of the Fishing Shore on York River at Airy Plains, looking to the East,” 1797.

John Mason explained the “Landing Road” was “where all persons or things water borne, were landed or taken off, and where were kept the boats…and canoes…for business transportation, fishing and hunting.”
Close-up of image on marker

Submitted: May 28, 2019, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p476801
File Size: 1.420 Megabytes

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