Conclusion

As you leave town to the north, just past North Street is a row of five brick houses—now part of the Wildset Inn, the Plates at 208 Restaurant, and the Parsonage Inn. All five were built in the 1870s with locally-made bricks from the Dodson and White brickyard just a couple of blocks behind them. The Dodson name came up repeatedly in this tour and was a prominent family in town for generations. Henry Clay Dodson, who invested in the brickyard, was a pharmacist, but also served as general manager for the steamboat Olive, publisher of the weekly Saint Michaels Comet, and president of the local bank.

These and other citizens laid the foundation for today’s Saint Michaels, which reinvented itself around tourism and hospitality beginning in the 1960s as the seafood industry was declining.

Please come back to visit Saint Michaels, explore our museums including Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, to learn more.