The Fairfield Yards – Home of the Liberty Fleet
on April 14, 2020
Stories, Updates
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by Ken Jones As mentioned in my previous post I have been processing and cataloging the Museum’s Bethlehem Steel collection. As I did my work, I found myself reading the materials or closely looking at the photos I was processing. I became fascinated by Bethlehem’s collection of shipyards in Baltimore – Sparrows Point, the Baltimore […]
Read moreThe Bethlehem Baltimore Shipyards: Varied Origins, Histories, and Missions
on March 30, 2020
Behind the Scenes, Stories
and Tags: Baltimore, Bethlehem, crane, drydock, Fort McHenry, graving, jumboizing, Key Highway, Locust Point, maritime, shipbuilding, shipyard, shipyards, Skinner, Sparrows Point, whirley crane, yards
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by Ken Jones Being a mid-century born native Baltimorean I was always well aware of “The Point.” I had an uncle that worked there, and a neighbor or two as well. As a kid I knew that they worked there because of the orange dust on their cars or because they had more vacation days […]
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