It was a small place with about 250 residents and 50 homes when the British savagely stormed into the fishing village on the morning of May 3, 1813, the enemy almost completely destroying it. Painstakingly, the group has built, in miniature, the port at the top of the Chesapeake. They’ve worked from old maps, land records, tax assessments, newspapers and more to accurately recreate the place as it peacefully existed the day before the enemy attacked. Madison Mitchell (Mitch), one of the modelers, took time out from shaping the exhibit to discuss the handiwork of his team with a group of visitors. Center of town, Havre de Grace, before the destruction during the War of 1812Ī group of volunteers has been working for nearly a year on a scale model of Havre de Grace as it existed the day before the British raided the village in May 1813. The Havre de Grace Visitors Center, 450 Pennington Avenue, has a scale model of Havre de Grace before the War of 1812 with the story of the destruction of the city in 1813 by the British Naval Fleet. The British, under Rear Admiral Cockburn, destroyed nearly two-thirds of the homes and businesses in Havre de Grace. 2010 Video of War of 1812 Reenactment at the Susquehanna Museum at the Lockhouse in Havre de Grace
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