Nellie Crockett
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nellie-crockett-251-18123989
title:
Nellie Crockett
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The Nellie Crockett is a Chesapeake Bay oyster buy-boat built for Andrew A. Crockett of Tangier, Virginia, in 1925. She is located at Georgetown, Maryland, USA. She was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1994. The Nellie Crockett was built specifically to operate as a buy-boat, making the rounds of the Chesapeake Bay oyster beds to buy oysters directly from the harvesters, typically sail-powered skipjacks or oyster tongers. This allowed the oyster dredges to remain on the beds, avoiding
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United States historic place
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_Crockett
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2023-08-08T01:22:25Z
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