Engineering:Maggie S. Myers (schooner)
MAGGIE S. MYERS (schooner) | |
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| Location | Killen's Dock at Front and Lombard Sts., Leipsic, Delaware |
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| Coordinates | [ ⚑ ] : 39°14′30″N 75°30′53″W / 39.24167°N 75.51472°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1893 |
| MPS | Bowers Beach DE MRA |
| NRHP reference # | 83001378[1] |
| Added to NRHP | April 25, 1983 |
The Maggie S. Myers is an oyster schooner, built in 1893 reportedly at Bridgeton, New Jersey. She is 50-foot-long (15 m) and all the framing is of white oak. The rigging was removed in the 1940s, when the vessel was converted to power. She is maintained and used for oyster dredging on the waters of the Delaware Bay.[2]
She has been restored by her current owner Frank "Thumper" Eicherly IV of bowers Beach Delaware. She now runs on sail as well as combustions and is still a working vessel on the bay as of 2018.
She was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[1]
A similar oyster dredging schooner, the Katherine M. Lee which is also listed on the NRHP, was also docked near Front and Lombard streets in Leipsic, Delaware.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010. https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP.
- ↑ Stephen Del Sordo (November 1980). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Maggie S. Myers". National Park Service. https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/NRHP/83001378_text. and accompanying two photos
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