If a picture is worth a thousand words then aerial photographer Hunter Harris has succeeded in capturing the mammoth undertaking of moving the historical Galloway Mansion last week to Queenstown from its original location in Talbot County.
Owner Christian Neeley engineered the remarkable undertaking of moving this 250 year old house by barge 5o miles to its new home in Queen Anne’s County.
Tom Seip says
There is another interesting story, somewhat similar, out there. It’s a yacht, in fact, the former Presidential Yacht Sequoia, which last served JFK (who had a king sized bed installed in the master stateroom!!). She has been moldering away in Reedville, VA for years while an ownership dispute was settled by the Delaware Chancery Court. Recently, she was put on shallow draft barge in Reedville, and moved to Cambridge, where she now sits high and dry at or near Yacht Maintenance, Inc. while the awaits an ocean going barge for transport to New England, perhaps, Rhode Island or Maine, to be restored at the cost of millions.
This is an interesting story, and nothing is to be found on Google.
Robert Lynch says
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Sequoia_(presidential_yacht)
According to this, Sequoia served presidents after JFK. I knew this was true because a friend who was not always that smart took us for a ride in his boat one night on the Potomac, and Nixon used the boat that night. My friend chased after it, and some coast guard boats tried to chase us away. We got close enough that we could see some of the secret service agents scurrying around on the boat. At that point, my friend gave up the chase. Today, we would have never gotten as close as we did, and we would probably still be in prison, but it gave us a nice story. I thought that some donors recommissioned for President Reagan after Mr. Peanut, the thrifty President that decommissioned it, was out of office.
Joyce Stambaugh says
Thank you for the remarkable photos. I hope that I get to follow the restoration of this beautiful home. Thanks for sharing.