The National Park Service (NPS) wants your ideas about the Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail. Share your thoughts at one of NPS’s evening open houses this fall. Learn about the trail and help NPS tackle questions as it develops the trail's management for 2009 and 2010. Planners say, “Public involvement is the key to the trail’s successful future.”
Open Houses: When and Where?
September 23—Historic Jamestowne Visitor Center, VA
September 24—Deltaville Community Center, VA
September 25—Indigo Landing Restaurant, Alexandria, VA
September 30—Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine Visitor Center, Baltimore
October 1—Seaford City Hall, DE
October 2—Havre de Grace Maritime Museum
October 7—Anheuser-Busch Coastal Research Center, University of Virginia, Cape Charles, VA
October 8—Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels
Now, About that Trail…
Established in 2006, the national historic trail is a series of smart buoys on the Bay and its tributaries that retrace Captain John Smith’s voyages of discovery in 1607-1609. Linking the waters of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia, the trail commemorates Smith's voyages, shares knowledge about Chesapeake Indians, and interprets the Bay’s natural history. So far, the trail includes buoys off Stingray Point and Jamestown and on the Potomac, Patapsco, and Susquehanna Rivers. A buoy near Norfolk will come online soon. nps.gov/cajo
by Ruth Christie/SpinSheet and PropTalk Magazines
Above, the Patapsco River Smart Buoy right after it was launced in 2007. Photo by Molly Winans/SpinSheet
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