Essex Harbor, Essex, Connecticut. County/parish: Middlesex.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places December 04, 1991. NRIS 91002060.
1 contributing structure.Also known as:
Christeen is the oldest oyster sloop in the United States and was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1992.
She was built in 1883 in Glenwood Landing, New York as a gaff-rigged sloop. She had several homes including Essex, Connecticut, but in 1992 she arrived back in the hamlet of Oyster Bay, New York. Funds were raised and over the next seven years, she was restored and relaunched in 1999. She currently serves as a working museum ship, offering educational tours, public, and private charters of Oyster Bay at the WaterFront Center.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/132353656