Upper Chesapeake Bay – West Side THE NAME HAVRE DE GRACE TRANSLATES as “harbor of grace.” But, in May 1813, it was a harbor filled with enemy soldiers intent on laying waste to the town. British marines and sailors overran two earthen forts at the water’s edge, and then turned the Americans’ own cannons on the village. Militiaman 2nd Lt. John O’Neill and some companions briefly manned a cannon, but only O’Neill kept to the task of defending Havre de Grace until he was captured and carried off to a British frigate. He later became the first keeper of the Concord Point Lighthouse [19] . A monument to his heroics was erected in 1914. Without anyone standing in their way, British troops poured into the all-but-abandoned town. About two-thirds of the 62 private homes in Havre de Grace were burned. Commodore John Rodgers hailed from Havre de Grace and is said to have fired the first shot of the War of 1812. His U.S. frigate President , having sailed from New York harbor in June 1812, chased down the frigate HMS Belvidera and struck it with a bow chaser cannonball. He later led efforts to build stout land and harbor defenses in Baltimore that were Pennsylvania Maryland Su Dam s Conowingo q 1 Susquehanna State Park h E ast 20 RODGERS HOUSE Havre de Grace Nort ue ha a Port Deposit Chesapeake House ? PRINCIPIO FURNACE 95 nn Maryland House ? 40 21 Perryville Carpenter Point ? Elkton 40 North Historic Elk East Landing Charlestown Elk River Park CHARLESTOWN 22 HISTORIC DISTRICT T Bohemia Frenchtown POINT 19 CONCORD LIGHTHOUSE Elk Neck Chesapeake City n Point ow 301 . CHESAP E AKE AN D D State Park lk E Spesutie Island Turkey Point . Joppatowne Gu Grove Point Mount Harmon Sassa . Cecilton Fredericktown Georgetown fras MAP LEGEND Battle of Caulks Field Monument n Swan Point 301 Osprey Point Concord Point Lighthouse – Havre de Grace . MAP BY BOB PRATT 46 | snps.gov/stsp nps.gov/stsp CONCORD POINT LIGHTHOUSE np ow der Pooles Island Bush Still Pond Turners Star-Spangled Banner Kitty Knight Creek House National Historic Trail (approximate water route) Worton Creek Marina The Inn at Mitchell House Star-Spangled Banner Trail site Delaware Maryland ? Visitor information Park Memorial War Trail orientation Wayside information panel kiosk Battle or engagement Town raided/burned by British
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