SILVER HEEL (log canoe) | |
 Silver Heel at Chestertown in 2019 | |
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| Nearest city | Chestertown, Maryland |
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| Coordinates | 39°7′45″N 76°5′50″W / 39.12917°N 76.09722°W |
| Built | 1902 |
| Architect | Thompson, Eugene |
| Architectural style | Tilghman |
| MPS | Chesapeake Bay Sailing Log Canoe Fleet TR |
| NRHP reference No. | 85002249 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | September 18, 1985 |
The Silver Heel is a Chesapeake Bay log canoe, built in 1902, in Kent County, Maryland by Eugene Thompson for John Wesley Dickinson. She is a 33'-113⁄4" sailing log canoe in the racing fleet. She has a beam of 7'-3/4". She has a clipper bow, with the longhead braced to serve as a bowsprit, and a straight, raking stern. The canoe is privately owned and races under No. 2. She one of the last 22 surviving traditional Chesapeake Bay racing log canoes that carry on a tradition of racing on the Eastern Shore of Maryland that has existed since the 1840s. She is located at Chestertown, Kent County, Maryland.[2][3]
She was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.[1]
