Levin Woolford

Narrative History

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The bugeye Levin Woolford was built at Madison in 1883 by Joseph W. Brooks. The selected newspaper record places her most clearly in the Potomac River trade in the first decade of the twentieth century, moving light to river landings and returning toward Washington with lumber, pine lumber, cord wood, and later oysters.

By March 1906, Levin Woolford was reported at Washington with pine lumber from Popes Creek, Virginia. In 1907 she was light and bound for the lower river to load cord wood for Washington dealers. The 1909 notices show a seasonal pattern: lumber loading in Mattox Creek in August, cord wood from a Maryland point in September, a departure to fit out for the fall oyster-running trade, and an October loading at Mattox Creek for Washington.

The vessel continued to appear in Washington shipping notices in 1910, when she was listed light for Machodoc Creek to load back to the city. A handful of broader “Woolford” newspaper hits remain in the curated table, but the narrative treats only the entries that clearly name Levin Woolford as vessel-specific evidence.

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Footnotes

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1. Database vessel row DSPV-01949, Levin Woolford.
2. Evening Star, March 28, 1906, p. 7.
3. Evening Star, May 8, 1907, p. 14.
4. Evening Star, May 23, 1909, p. 8; August 5, 1909, p. 20; September 23, 1909, p. 24; September 28, 1909, p. 18; October 3, 1909, p. 30.
5. Evening Star, June 11, 1910, p. 10.

Newspapers, Curated Search Results

State	Newspaper	Date	Location	Full-page PDF	Thumbnail	Article Summary
District of Columbia	Evening star	Wednesday, May 8, 1907	Washington, District of Columbia	Open PDF		Wednesday, May 8, 1907 Evening star: load cord wood for this port; bugeye IA / Woolford, light, for the lower river to load / for this city; schooner Sidney Jones, light, / for Machodoc creek to load cord wood for / dealers here; schooner Oyster Bay. light for / a river point to load; schooner Sidney Jones / to the lower river to load cor wood. / Memoranda: Schooner Winchester hao / been chartered to load railway ties at Alex— / andria for New York; schooner Sidonia / Curley Is at a Rappahannock river point / loading pine lumber for this city; schooner / William H. McGuire has gone to a downe / river point. and will load lumber for this
District of Columbia	Evening star	Wednesday, March 28, 1906	Washington, District of Columbia	Open PDF		Wednesday, March 28, 1906 Evening star: the Fmall vessels thet were out in it had as / rough a time as they would have had in / Chesapeake bay In a northeast gale. / Arrived: Bugeye Levin Wool ford. pine / lumber from Popes ereeK, Virgi nia, for / dealers; schooner J. E. Smith. cordwood / from a river point; schoner lumber / from the Rcppchannock r iver; schooner / Peri, cordwood from a river point: sehooner / Lydia Vernon, oysters from Potomae beds; / schooner Fife Sisters, lumber from a near- / by point in the ricer. / Sailed: Soow Bush. with a ear go of ferti- / lizer material, for Greenway flats; bugeye
District of Columbia	Evening star	Sunday, May 23, 1909	Washington, District of Columbia	Open PDF		Sunday, May 23, 1909 Evening star: cord wood for this city: bugeye Iævin / ing the lighter. / force ot workmen will be put upon the / Woolford. light. for a Potomac point to / work. It will require two or three weeks / load lumber for the dealers here: flattie / Jumping Jack. light. for a Potomac / to complete. / point to foad; tug Minerva. with a tow of / Besides rebuilding the present pler the / dock on the east side of the pier Is to / lighters for a down-river point; tug Ca- / lengthened in order to give berthing / mllla. for the lower river after a tow to
Delaware	Delaware Gazette and State Journal	Thursday, March 1, 1894	Wilmington, Delaware	Open PDF		Thursday, March 1, 1894 Delaware Gazette and State Journal: bugeye Bessie Woolford, who was said / to bc dredging on Hub's bar. Thc balls / tore the sails up. and the man at thc / Wheel had the spokes ebot away before / be would retreat.
Maryland	The Baltimore Sun	Tuesday, February 27, 1894	Baltimore, Maryland	Open PDF		Tuesday, February 27, 1894 The Baltimore Sun: back to its owner. Capt. Zadoc Phoebus. of / Rock Creek. Several balls from the twelve- / pound cannon were fired at Capt. Edward / Iyler, of the bugeye Bessie Woolford, who / was said to be dre Wing on Hall's bar. The / balls tore the sails up. and tbe man at the / wheel had the spokes shot away before he / would retreat. / ANNAPOLIS, MD.. Feb. 26.—HenryWilliams, / master of the schooner Col. J. Merrier, / owned by Patrick F. Prendergrast. of Balti- / more. was arrested charged with illegal / dredging for ers on Three Sisters oyster / grounds. The capture was made by the
District of Columbia	Evening star	Sunday, October 3, 1909	Washington, District of Columbia	Open PDF		Sunday, October 3, 1909 Evening star: Schooner Hallie K. is at a lower river / point loading oysters in the shell for the / local market; bugeye Levin Woolford fs In / Mattox creek loading for this port; / schooner George C. A. Travers, with lum- / ber. sailed from Norfolk for this city, 1st / instant: steamer Wilhelmina has sailed / from Port Tampa. Fla., with ohosphate / rock for Alexandria; schoomr C. C. / Wheeler has arrived at Baltimore with / lumber from the Rappahannock; schooner / A. II. Quinby is at a Virginia point load- / ing lumber for dealers here; scow Sea / King is at Marshall Hall loading ties;
District of Columbia	Evening star	Tuesday, September 28, 1909	Washington, District of Columbia	Open PDF		Tuesday, September 28, 1909 Evening star: Schooner Edith Verrell, lumber from a / Potomac point to the local dealers; bug- / eye Levin Woolford, cord wood from / Maryland point to the Eastern branch / dealers: schooners Ada Wood. R. C. Kim- / ball. Lottie Thomas. Hallie K., Ethel / Vale and William II. Bixler, oysters in / the shell from a rh•er point to the local / market; schooner Ella. cord wood from / High Point; sehooner G. A. Kirwan, / canned goods from the Coan river for the / market: tug J. O. Carter, with a tow from / a lower river point; schooner Cora Mc- / Kenney, oysters in the shell from a Po-
District of Columbia	Evening star	Thursday, September 23, 1909	Washington, District of Columbia	Open PDF		Thursday, September 23, 1909 Evening star: Preparing to Carry Oysters. / The bugeye Levin Woolford. which has / been employed for the past seven months / in wood and lumber freighting On the / Potomac and Chesapeake bay, left here / yesterday. bound for a river point to fit / out for the oyster-running trade this fall. / She • will enter the service about October / 1. when tonging in tributarieé of the Po- / tomac becomes legal.
District of Columbia	Evening star	Thursday, August 5, 1909	Washington, District of Columbia	Open PDF		Thursday, August 5, 1909 Evening star: here; bugeye Levin Woolford will load / lumber • in Mattox creek for this city. / Three veæels. having aboard small / cargoes of melons from N0i,h Garolina / and Chesapeake bay points arrived at the / wharf market yesterday and last night. This / morning the fruit sold at prices rang- / ing from $6 per hundred for culls up to / $23 per hundred for selects. The fruit / now arriving is of particularly good qual- / ity. and is commanding high prices. / The barge N. A. Souder cf the coal- / carrying fleet of the Southern Transporta- / tion Company•s fleet has been renamed
District of Columbia	Evening star	Saturday, June 11, 1910	Washington, District of Columbia	Open PDF		Saturday, June 11, 1910 Evening star: this city; bugeye Levin Woolford, light, / for Machodoc creek to load back to this / city; launch Mary Anne, for Crisfield, / Md.; sloop Rena Cator, light, for Aquia / creek to load lumber for this market; / sloop Nellie Bly, light, for Potomac creek / to load lumber for dealers here; tug D. / M. Key. towing a lighter for Broad / creek, Md.; flattie McGuire, from the / Eastern branch for a river point to load: / bugeye Jumping Jack. household goods. / from 11th street wharf to a down-river / point, and schooner Ella. light, for Alex- / andria to load merchandise for Upper
Maryland	The Baltimore Sun	Friday, March 26, 1897	Baltimore, Maryland	Open PDF		Friday, March 26, 1897 The Baltimore Sun: The stonmer John Twohy nrusstnr. Cap. / taln Russels, nrrived yostordn.v from Grent / Wicomico with 12,500 shad and about / 62,300 herring. The sehooner Woolford / arrived from the I'atuxent with n cargo / of fresh fish. / Three steamers elenrod yosterdny with 356.. / 110 bushels or corn tor two British ports nnd / one Baltic port. / The schooner Norrnnnds• gaited for Sagun. / Cuba. with full cargo of coal. / The Norwegian steamer 't•yris loading coal / and coke for Tampico. Mexico. / ARRIVALS ANI) DEPARTURES.
Maryland	The Baltimore Sun	Thursday, June 12, 1884	Baltimore, Maryland	Open PDF		Thursday, June 12, 1884 The Baltimore Sun: schooner Chester, 5 tons, $78; Marshal J. M. / McClintock to A. Vosbury A. P. Mc- / Combs, steamer Viola, 14.15 tons, $190; Thos. / A. Willis and Oliver S. Woolford to John A. / Woolford, schooner Woolford. 27.68 tons, / $1,259 42; Wm. N. Chase and Alex. Chase to / Geo. A. Mathews. schooner Six Brothers. 9.60 / tons, $5, &e.; E. W. Ruark and others to Mary / F. Spedden, schooner John F. Doughty, 66.16 / tons, $1.2(0•, Clement R. Leonard, administra- / tor, to John C. Beckvith, sloop Sarah Matilda, / $.17 tons, $180.
Virginia	The Norfolk Virginian	Wednesday, September 20, 1876	Norfolk, Virginia			No full-page OCR text available for this row.