West View of Back Creek and Chesapeake Boat Company – Late 1950s

 

 

This is a favorite photo of mine. At left is the Chesapeake Boat Company, where I worked as a boy. Just above the boat yard dock is a red channel marker; that area had a sandy beach and was called the Burnt House. Many South Side kids used to swim there. I learned to swim there and used to dive from the top of that channel marker. We boys also used to swim across to what was then called the Marine Terminal (now Capt. Dan’s – where the Delaware Responder docks).