GALESVILLE,  MD.  ON WEST RIVER

About Galesville

• A village with several hundred residences, surrounded by Tenthouse Creek, Lerch Creek and West River with numerous marine businesses: Marinas, boatyards, marine contractors, riverside seafood restaurants, fish and ice house, watermen, yacht sales,  bareboat charters, and fishing charters.
• Although founded in 1652, the oldest buildings in the village are from the late 1800's
• Just outside of the village are Tulip Hill, a brick mansion built in 1750  one of the finest examples of Georgian Architecture in the country, and Cedar Park, built in 1652 as one of the Lord Baltimore's hunting lodges.  Both are privately owned.
• Until the 1930's the village was served by EMMA GILES a side wheeled steamboat.  The Steamboat pier is still there, under Steamboat Landing Restaurant.  The primary mode of transportation was by water, and the primary occupations were farming and fishing.
• Galesville Volunteer Fire Dept. & Paramedics
• West River Market, a quaint country store and deli; 3 Restaurants: Pirates Cove, Steamboat Landing and Topside Restaurant and Liquor Store; Antique Store; River Art Gallery; all within about 1/2 mile of HYY.
• Public tennis courts and ball fields
• Post Office
• West River Sailing Club, an active club, with junior sailing instruction, one design racing, cruising and boozing, handicap racer/cruiser racing
• Membership pool at West River Yacht Harbor
• Community Hall
• R. B. Dixon Automobile repair
• Community bicycles available throughout Galesville and the Yard
• Shuttle Service to BWI, Dulles, and Ronald Regan Washington National Airports
• Galesville Heritage Society Museum
• Sidewalks throughout much of the village
• County Pier and 2 small parks
• 2 Churches
• Pirates Cove Race Club: Wednesday night beer can spinnaker and non-spinnaker racing, Sunday Fall non-spinnaker Frostbite, buffet and video at Pirates Cove afterwards
• Numerous nearby anchorages in West and Rhode Rivers
• Seward's Shipyard Museum with Artifacts from 1812 era

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