The steamers of Brown’s Grove

看来我正在写有关游艇的系列文章！谁知道？我想这是在家工作，无法去任何地方，这使我渴望登上轮船并前往水边游乐园！

But I know why I am writing about this one. I want to help keep我们总统霍华德·霍格（Howard Hoege）的承诺我们会努力工作“在我们社区的每个角落都唤醒了超越种族，种族，性别，年龄，社会经济学的共同海事遗产的感觉，以及我们有时会感到彼此不同的所有方式。”因此，我将专注于一个相当特殊的游览蒸笼，由乔治·布朗上尉, that took African Americans of the Baltimore region to Brown’s Grove Amusement Park. Special, because in the 1910s until Brown’s Grove在1938年的悲剧性大火中燃烧, it was the only excursion steamboat and amusement park combination entirely owned and operated by African Americans. Brown said it was theonly such combination in America.

船长和他的轮船

An entrepreneur who owned the steamer and the Grove, George Brown came to Baltimore practically penniless in 1893. He managed to save money, while just an apprentice, toward the charter of his first steamboat, in 1906 or 1907. His idea to do so came from being forced, by Jim Crow law, to ride in a railroad baggage car from the Eastern Shore back to Baltimore. He wanted to create a first-class transportation experience for African Americans. From there, he built a steamboat line that lasted several decades. One of them wasAvalon，他于1929年购买的一个侧车手。这是她的一些建筑渲染图，由哈兰和霍林斯沃思（Harlan and Hollingsworth）建造，并在这里的水手博物馆图书馆举行。我们还从建筑商那里得到了她的规格书。1937年，她更名联邦山也如下图所示。

棕色拥有其他蒸笼，去了罗克克里克（Rock Creek）的树林Avalon。这也是星光，例如，当她被命名时Granite City, also owned by Brown.

这里没有描绘的是有史以来第一个租用的汽船棕色，W. J. Newbill博士。那艘船由另一个黑色的汽船企业家汉斯福德C. Bayton，他在拉帕汉诺克河上拥有5艘轮船。不过那是另一回事了。

布朗的格罗夫游乐园

I know very little of Brown’s Grove. Since it was destroyed in 1938, anyone who has first-hand recollection of it is now very much up in years. George Brown established it in the 1900s about 13 miles from Baltimore by water, in Anne Arundel County on Rock Creek, via the Pamlico River. From what I read, it had a roller coaster, bathhouse, picnic grove, carousel, a merry-go-round, a midway, and refreshment stands, and much more. It was not the only park for African Americans around Baltimore during Segregation. I have read about other places — Sparrows Beach, Highland Beach, Carr’s Beach –but none sounded so complete and elegant as Brown’s Grove. The real novelty, however, was the steamboat!!

关于他的汽船和其他非裔美国公园所有者在大量人群中保持秩序的棕色如何，有一些非常有趣的故事（观察者说，Avalon的容量在900-1500人之间）。显然Brown himself patted down patrons and removed weapons,and locked the rowdy up below decks in the steamer! Another owner evidently made loudspeaker announcements warning any troublemakers that他们最终变得如此扁平，以至于“需要一个梯子来看一毛钱的尽头！” They brooked no nonsense.

伟大的遗产！

非洲裔美国人可以为他们的历史的这一部分感到自豪！他们在卑鄙的吉姆·克劳（Jim Crow Law）的阴影下创造了一个多么美妙的社区！他们为自己所做的一件美丽的事，登上自己的一个人拥有的蒸笼，参观一个美丽的公园，在那里他们可以感到安全，然后去将蒸笼带回家在星空下，在甲板上跳舞!