This is the cannon that sits outside of the Concord Point lighthouse in Havre De Grace. It’s plaque tells the story of the man who, until captured, held the battery there against the British in the war of 1812. For those unfamiliar with the geography of Havre De Grace, it sits at the mouth of the Susquehanna river, where it meets the Chesapeake.
A full size picture of the plaque on the cannon follows:
Here’s a shot of a pass just before the train tracks go over the susquehanna river. I would like to find out how old this is becasue the size certianly implies that it was built quite a while ago.
Today’s photo of Ripken stadium comes to use from MDP baseball correspondant, Bryan.
The stadium isn’t quite fulfilling the “if you build it, they will come” philosophy. However, it is interesting that the team was bought by the Ripken family to fill their stadium, rather than the other way around. It is home to the Aberdeen Ironbirds, a single A affiliate of the Orioles.
The stadium is part of a complex of baseball fields, including Cal Sr’s yard, a replica of Camden Yards for youth baseball. From I-95 you can clearly see the red brick hotel which is shaped to resembe the Warehouse from Camden Yards and which is appropriately placed in right field of cal sr’s yard. It is in left field relative to ripken stadium.
I was taking a train north this past weekend and thought it might be a cool idea to take a picture of Havre de Grace looking south down the susquehana from inside the train as it crosses the river. I wanted it to be the opposite of this picture.
However, things didn’t work out so perfectly. The shot that I wanted and that I waited to capture, ended up having a post right in the middle of it. That’s just a risk you take when trying to take a picture of something while you are in a train moving at 70 MPH. So this was the second shot I took. I still like this one becasue of the support structure for the old bridge that is visible in the bottom left corner.
Today’s picture comes from contributor Adam, who offers us this shot of the Conowingo Dam. While the Dam is certainly a big factor in the Maryland landscape, it was built by a Philadelphia Company. In fact, it is a hydroelectric generating facility and the dam was built in 1928 by the Philadelphia Electric Co.
It’s seven original turbines, combined with four newer ones, produce over 500 megawatts of electricity, making it a very sizable generation facility with an ability, at peak flows, to generate 50% to 75% of the power that a 1970’s nuclear reactor could produce. The dam also creates the Conowingo Reservoir, which is the cooling pond for a nuclear power plant further upstream.
The dam iteself serves as the Susquehanna crossing for US-1, which is where this photo was taken.
Also for MDP reference, here’s a shot of the susquehanna further downstream.
I’m unsure what I should call these plants on the side of the bay. Suggestions?
I was really just looking for a neat picture. This one was taken at the same time as the celebration swim.
How did you celebrate MDP’s 100th post? (which was yesterday by the way)
I hope you did it in a safer manner than this fool.
Thanks to everyone who visits for making MDP a real pleasure to create.
Also, very special thanks to everyone who has contributed over the last few months, in either pictures or comments you all are very appreciated.
We all know what HDG is famous for, other than the light house, Cal Ripken, and the decoy museum…….Bridges. Here’s a view from just north of the passenger railroad bridge, looking out towards the rt. 40 bridge.
Also, this post has made me especially aware of the wishlist request for a map on wach post showing its location. That’s in the works, so don’t worry.
As pointed out in the comments, the author of a prior post made a terrible oversight in this photo as they didn’t emphasise the building you see here: The Jerusalem Gun Factory. From what I gathered in the tour, weapon stocks were built in this building for a short time and hence it garnered the name.
There isn’t much to say about Concord Point Lighthouse that isn’t covered by the phrase, “It is awesome.”
The lighthouse was manned for the majority of its life (which started in 1827) by the O’neil family of Havre De Grace. (more Havre De Grace posts to come) One of them actually defended the lighthouse with a cannon and there is a monument to this action on the water-side of the light. The keeper’s home still stands across the street form the tower. It too was built in 1827.
According to the sign in front, it is the oldest lighthouse in continuous operation on the bay.
However, it is not the oldest lighthouse on the
