Rock Hall

by Robin Wood Kurowski, R. Jerry Keiser, Patricia Joan O. Horsey, et al.

Book Overview

Rock Hall, Maryland, is a small, tranquil community nestled in Kent County on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay. Settled by fishermen and recently released indentured servants lured by subsistence fishing and farming, the town soon earned a reputation for enormous hauls of rockfish; thus, Rock Haul (later Rock Hall) was named. Eventually shipbuilding and other water-oriented enterprises developed, and the town evolved. More than 300 years later,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0738553107
• ISBN13: 9780738553108
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.6" x 9.2"