The Crab Claw Restaurant, adjacent to the CBMM campus.
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sunk by the Sturgeon. The full story of the ship and the deaths of the men on board was not fully known in Australia until after the war. ... On 27 April the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum announced its intention to acquire two properties contiguous to its waterfront campus, including the current home of the Crab Claw Restaurant. The terms of the sale call for the restaurant to continue doing business under its ownership for the 2023
season. The site dates as far back as a mention of a pier in the 1877 Lake, Griffing, & Stevenson Atlas of Talbot & Dorchester Counties; the town’s steamboat wharf stood on the site by the 1890s. Business on that site started in the 1950s as a clam and oyster shucking house. In 1965, owners Bill and Sylvia Jones converted it into The Crab Claw. (www.cbmm.org; 213 North Talbot Street, St. Michaels, MD; www.cbmm. org) … The Hermione-La Fayette Association has launched an appeal for €6.5 million (just over $7 million) to repair the hull of L’Hermione, a replica of the ship that carried the Marquis de La Fayette to America to support the revolutionaries. Carpenters performing routine maintenance discovered severe damage caused by a wood-destroying fungus; approximately 7% of the total surface area of the
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