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Charles County Overflows With Cultural Attractions
Charles County shows its love for art and history in the area's culture opportunities. Museums, theaters, historial sites and art programs help showcase the county's rich heritage, which dates from 1658.
In La Plata, the African-American Heritage Society Museum houses 17th-century artifacts and documents from the slavery era. Nearby Port Tobacco is the original home of the Indian Village of Potopaco, and it offers tours of a one-room schoolhouse and reconstructed courthouse saluting its 1600s... Read More »
Mallows Bay Offers an Eerily Beautiful Site: The Largest Shipwreck Fleet In THe Western Hemisphere
Shrouded in the foggy waters of Mallows Bay is an eerily beautiful sight – the largest shipwrecked fleet in the Western Hemisphere. Some 150 abandoned World War I wooden steamships have been slumbering in Mallows Bay since the 1920s.
“It’s a ship graveyard,” says Donald Shomette, a marine archaeologist and author of a book about the ships called The Ghost Fleet of Mallows Bay.
The ships were built between 1917 and 1920 after President Woodrow Wilson’s national call to arms against imperial... Read More »
