Cruising Kent County Recreation
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Georgetown
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As we start you on your cruise from Georgetown on the Sassafras River, try to imagine the area as John Smith's exploring party would have found it in 1608. Here along this river shore they met the native Tockwogh tribal chief - a meeting recorded in John Smith's journal. Or in May of 1813, when local militia, positioned on the high ground above Georgetown, attempted to halt the British. Georgetown burned, except for two brick dwellings which were saved from the British torch by the defiant Kitty Knight. |
Before our present road system developed, when people and goods moved from place to place by water, this was an important colonial port. Even today, much of the shoreline along the beautiful Sassafras remains relatively undisturbed by development, and the old harbor has become a haven for yachtsmen wishing to explore the upper Chesapeake.
