Compiled by Joe Leger
Current owner of Archer's Hays House
11806 Rivershore Drive
Dunkirk, MD 20754
| Pre-1800s | Woodlawn house built. Strengthening rods for house supposedly came from British ship sunk in war of 1812. Cannon ball remains embedded in brickwork, part of house burned during War, kitchen still shows burn marks on beams. House now (1994) owned by Lissits, former residents of Shores of Calvert. |
| 1 Jun 1812 | President James Madison requests the congress of the United States to declare war on the British Empire. This is the War of 1812, America's "Second War of Independence". |
| 26 Dec 1812 | British declare a blockade of the Delaware and Chesapeake Bays |
| 1 Jun 1814 | War for the Patuxent begins with Captain Joshua Barney's Chesapeake Flotilla and the British engaging between the mouths of the Patuxent and Potomac Rivers |
| 26 Jun 1814 | Barney breaks out of St. Leonard's Creek and flotilla escapes to town of Benedict |
| 16 July 1814 | Battletown destroyed by British |
| 17 July 1814 | The town of Huntingtown destroyed by fire by the British |
| 19 July 1814 | County records destroyed in fire at Prince Frederick by British |
| 19 - 23 Jul 1814 | Sheridan's Point and God's Grace Point and all homes and farms between, the Mackall house at God's Grace, and Hallowing Point, plantations and manors were destroyed by the British |
| Jul & Aug 1814 | Barney fights retreating action to White's Landing, Nottingham, and then Pig Point |
| 22 Aug 1814 | North of Pig Point, 16 vessels of the Chesapeake Flotilla and 16 merchant
vessels and tobacco schooners were destroyed by Americans to prevent capture:
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| 25 Aug 1814 | Washington, D.C., burned by British troops |
| 30 Aug 1814 | Troops, after burning Washington, D.C., load onto British craft to depart the Patuxent from Nottingham. |
| 4 Sep 1814 | British depart the Patuxent for the last time |
| 18 Sep 1814 | The British leave Baltimore after their defeat |
| 19 Sep 1814 | The British depart the Chesapeake forever |
| 1816 | Map of British march on Washington, D.C., in 1814 shows Archer's Hays belonging to Crosby. Selbey's Landing is spelled "Shelbys" |
| 1817 | Captain George Weems pilots the first steamboat, the "Surprise" into the Patuxent River |
| Late Jan, 1855 | Merchant Sloop "General Lafayette" sunk on property of John K. Pumphrey (listed between Mount Calvert and Half Pone Landing. Ship was carrying plaster and cloveseed. The boat was sunk by floating ice while the crew had departed for an evenings outing; the crew eventually being located at Pigs Point. |
| (?) to 1860s (?) | Archer's Hays owned by Josias Crosby |
| 1861 | Start of the Civil War |
| 1860s to Late 1800s (?) | Archer's Hays owned by John K. and Eliza Pumphrey - Had fishery on land |
| 1865 | Civil War occupation of Maryland lands ends |
| 1860 to 1882 | Main House constructed by Pumphreys - may have been built over a previously razed or burned house |
| 1886 | Silica mines in operation on bank opposite Nottingham in Calvert County. The silica is used for filing for bank safes and as insulation for boilers and steam pipes. Steam boats go as far north as Hills Landing, which is about 2 miles past Bristol Landing (above Pig Point). There is reference to Swann's Point bar which is three miles below Bristol. |
| ~1888 | Construction of Chesapeake Beach Railroad already underway. |
| Jan 1888 | Dredging of Bristol and Swann's Point bars is started but never completed. Bristol is 46 miles from the mouth of the river and the most northerly of the steamboat landings. There is a cannery there, but by 1899, it had closed. The dredging, 500 feet north of Bristol, was to provide a turnaround for steamboats. The dredging for Swann's point was to be 2,000 feet north of Selby's Landing. The spoil was scheduled to be deposited to the west on Richard Pumprey's lands, however, a map shows Pumprey's land as lying to the east. The channel was to be cleared to 13 feet at low tide, 200 feet wide, and one mile long (this appears to be through Jug Bay). |
| Late 1800s (?) to (?) | Archer's Hays owned by Whittingtons (First by Luther Whittington's grandfather and then by his aunt) |
| (?) 1882 | Prince Frederick Court House again burned with all records |