River Crossing

River Crossing. Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail. Little evidence remains of what was once the northernmost navigable deep-water port on the Susquehanna River. The “Upper Ferry” crossed between here and Port Deposit., When the British attacked May 3, 1813, they helped themselves to a barrel of whiskey from John Stump’s warehouse, then torched the building with its 500 barrels of flour., Day of Terror , In one day, British raiders burned two-thirds of the buildings in Havre de Grace, raided a warehouse here, and destroyed the Principio Iron Works. Port Deposit, its battery visible from the water, was spared., (Inscription under the painting in the upper left) , A Ferry Scene on the Susquehanna at Wright’s Ferry, , near Havre de Grace, ca. 1811 by Pavel Petrovich Svinin , Image by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, “The Boats which I sent up the Susquehanna returned after destroying five vessels in it and a large Store of Flour, when everything being completed to my utmost wishes, the whole division re-embarked and returned to the Ships…” , -British Rear Adm. George Cockburn to Adm. John B. Warren, May 3, 1813.