Tugboat and Old Pond

Old Canal with Tugboat and Pond

This is a steam tugboat heading west, approaching Chesapeake City. At left was a pond (part of Broad Creek) that ran up close to Birdy Battersby’s family house on East Canal Street. Morrison Watson told me a story about this pond that ran up to a bit beyond Bethel. He said that when he was a boy he lived in the town of Bethel, and he said that one time he had to row his skiff down this pond to North Chesapeake City to pick up a piece of furniture and row it back to Bethel.