St. Michaels Marina, St. Michaels, Maryland. County/parish: Talbot.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places September 18, 1985. NRIS 85002261.
Part of Chesapeake Bay Sailing Log Canoe Fleet TR (NRIS 64000306).
1 contributing structure.Also known as:
The Persistence is a Chesapeake Bay log canoe, built in the 1890s, possibly by John B. Harrison in Tilghman, Maryland. She measures 32'-41⁄2" long, with a beam of 6'-111⁄2" and is double-ended with no longhead on her bow. She is one of the last 22 surviving traditional Chesapeake Bay racing log canoes that carry on a tradition of racing on the Eastern Shore of Maryland that has existed since the 1840s. She is located at St. Michaels, Talbot County, Maryland.
She was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/106775832