Last month we made a one week birding trip to the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Arriving in Baltimore, we found our rental car and drove for an overnight stay at Cambridge, Maryland. After a seafood dinner, we headed down to the harbor. On reaching the harbor, the drawbridge was raised, so we then had to wait until water traffic had passed and parked the car. We took a stroll through harbor neighborhood.
It was late in the day, close to sunset, when we found this classic brick building. It turned out to be the Dorchester Public Library. The lighting had been switched on, so it provided a pleasing warm lighting to the the building’s portico. Cambridge is one of the oldest settlements during US colonial times. Several buildings in the city center have extensive brick and stone facades from the 18th and 19th centuries.
Soon it was time to return over the drawbridge to the parked car. This is an image after sunset from the drawbridge. That gap in the fence (below) is the gap between the two bridge segments of the drawbridge.
The following morning, we head back to the town center before continuing our trip to Virginia. Here we stopped at the Harriet Tubman Museum. It was closed at the time, but we did go the the alley at the side of the building to see the Harriet Tubman mural that is located at the rear of the museum.
Harriet Tubman was a conductor of the Underground Railroad that was created to guide enslaved people to freedom. A statue was erected to commemorate Harriet Tubman outside the Dorchester County courthouse — see below. More information on Harriet can be found on the internet.
Close to the County Courthouse is a building that used to be the National Bank of Cambridge. This building has a fabulous bench located outside the main entrance. It still has the original cast iron frame from 1880.
We made our way back to the parked car and continued our trip to Virginia.