S. C. DOBSON (log canoe) | |
Nearest City: | Oxford, Maryland |
Coordinates: | 38.6928°N -76.1592°W |
Built: | 1895 |
Architect: | Lowery, James |
Architecture: | Tilghman |
Added: | September 18, 1985 |
Refnum: | 85002252 |
The S. C. Dobson is a Chesapeake Bay log canoe, built about 1895, by James Lowery at Tilghman, Maryland. She measures 33'-1" (10.1 meters) and has a beam of 6'-6" (2 meters). She has a longhead bow, a sharp stern, and a narrow, straight-sided hull. With a Tilghman racing rig she races under No. 6. She 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.[1]
Since the 1990s, she has been named the Mary Julia Hall. She is located at Chestertown, Kent County, Maryland.[2]
She was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.