Treasure Beaches of the Mid-Atlantic
A factual visual history of America's busiest maritime passageway from the 1500s through mid-1800s
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Treasure Beaches of the Mid-Atlantic
Pen, ink and watercolor by Ellen Rice This is a nationally best selling work of art and history, seen on television programs, written about by newspapers across the country and chosen to represent the State of Delaware on QVC's Quest for America's Best. Click here for the map's companion piece, which tells more about the map's history and provides a key to the abbreviations used on the map. Fine art reproductions of this significant record of the Mid-Atlantic's maritime history are available in two sizes. The original is sold |
The Captain's Edition is one of ten works of art by Ellen Rice on display in
Bethany Beach Oceanside Suites, a Marriott Residence Inn
Bethany Beach Oceanside Suites, a Marriott Residence Inn
She drew the foundation of the map with information culled from eight different charts and maps from the late 1600s and early 1700s, including an original 1673 Augustine Hermann map personally conveyed to her by its owner.
From these time-worn documents came original names of more 2,000 towns, rivers, creeks, Colonial settlements, known pirate's isles and holds, manors, plantations, native American villages, and gold & silver mines from the 1500s through mid-1700s. On no other map in this world is this information combined. |
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To Ellen, the granddaughter of two U.S. Navy admirals, the creation of Treasure Beaches of the Mid-Atlantic was a way of preserving a part of history and way of life that is fast disappearing at the bottom of the ocean. "The ocean floor and ancient artifacts, which do indeed wash ashore after severe storms, are time capsules of knowledge from which we can learn, " she says.
"I hope my map will in some small way help stir further efforts toward responsible research, exploration, recovery and preservation of our nation's maritime history - and more than that - create in our children a lively interest in the lessons history can teach." Accompanying the Captain's Edition of Ellen Rice's Treasure Beaches of the Mid-Atlantic map is a coin replica made from a King George III Rose Gold Guinea found on the shoreline of Delaware's "Coin Beach" adjacent to the 1785 wreck of the Irish merchant ship Faithful Steward (depicted on the map). The original coin is on display in the coastal Fenwick Island, Delaware, DiscoverSea Museum, founded by Dale Clifton, who recovered the coin. The replica coin is 24 Carat gold over solid brass. Each of the coins is engraved on the plain back with the number of the map. There are only 300 of these numbered replicas in existence. The coin is about the size of a quarter. See Ellen's first TV interview about her Treasure Beaches map below. |
Hidden Treasures
Ellen Rice's Colonial-style map reveals shipwrecks off the coast of Delmarva
By Brice Stump, Daily Times Staff Writer
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Ellen Rice's Colonial-style map reveals shipwrecks off the coast of Delmarva
By Brice Stump, Daily Times Staff Writer
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History Beneath the Waves
Delaware coast is a graveyard for sailing ships of old
By Gary Soulsman, The News Journal
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Delaware coast is a graveyard for sailing ships of old
By Gary Soulsman, The News Journal
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Uncovering Treasures on the Delmarva Coast
By Donna Harper, Sunny Day Guide
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By Donna Harper, Sunny Day Guide
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