Hatem Memorial Bridge and the CSX railroad bridge from Havre de Grace. "There was piracy in the Bay, on the waters," Valley said.Ĭiera Fisher, director of the Susquehanna Museum, said "the first recorded act of piracy in Maryland" took place on Garrett Island, "right across from us."įisher pointed out the wooded island in the middle of the river, visible from the grounds of the Lock House and crossed by the Route 40 Thomas J. Cameron boarded boats equipped with guns and attacked and captured several oyster dredgers allegedly operating illegally in Virginia's waters, according to the web page of The Mariners' Museum in Newport News, Va. The Oyster Wars occurred in the lower Chesapeake Bay, when volunteers acting under the authorization of Virginia's then-Gov. "Edward Teach, better know as Blackbeard, was known to come up the Chesapeake."Ĭatholic and Protestant colonists would often act as pirates against each other in the Bay, he said, and said actions in the so-called Oyster Wars of the late 19th century could be considered piracy. "There was piracy in Maryland," Valley said. Piracy was common in the Americas during the 1600s and 1700s, and pirates known as privateers were often employed to harass ships by colonial governors or nations such as England, France, Spain and others which were ferociously competing for territories in North America and the Caribbean. "What you see celebrated here today, it's the golden age of piracy," Valley explained. Piracy continues on the world's oceans today, with the most well-known incidents being carried out by Somali pirates seizing vessels moving past their coastline.
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