OLIVER'S GIFT (log canoe) | |
Nearest City: | Davidsonville, Maryland |
Coordinates: | 38.9661°N -76.6061°W |
Built: | 1947 |
Architect: | Duke, Oliver |
Architecture: | Tilghman |
Added: | September 18, 1985 |
Refnum: | 85002247 |
The Oliver's Gift is a Chesapeake Bay log canoe, built in 1947, by Oliver Duke. She measures 30'-7" long, has a beam of 7'-3". 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 Davidsonville, Anne Arundel County, Maryland.[1] [2]
She was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.