Southern Transportation – Shipyard Department

 

 

 

This is the old Southern Transportation Company, circa 1910. It was on the North Side, across Back Creek and slightly west of the Burnt House swimming hole. My two uncles, Clarence and Warren Truss, worked there about the time the photo was taken. Clarence a master carpenter and his brother, Warren, worked on the wooden barges as a caulker. An old timer told me that he remembered hearing the banging of the caulk being driven into the seams. He said it echoed loudly across the water to where he lived on the South Side. This second photo is of the Marine Construction Company, located at the same site, circa 1960. This area, at the mouth of Long Creek, is now Capt. Dan’s, site of the Delaware Responder. As a boy, I used to swim across from the Burnt House and rest there on the wharf. Long Creek meanderers up and goes under Rt. 213 near the Crab Shack.