St. Michaels, MD Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

A contender for prettiest harbor on the Chesapeake Bay, tiny ST MICHAELS , twelve miles west of US-50 on Hwy-33, is also one of its oldest ports. Founded during the mid-1600s, it grew into one of colonial America's prime shipbuilding centers, and its fast sloops and shallow-draft "bugeyes" evaded British blockades during the Revolutionary War. St Michaels languished while Baltimore blossomed, but since the early 1960s it has been rediscovered, its old buildings now gentrified into art galleries, boutiques and cozy B&Bs. Some corners of the town survive intact, however; among them the old … more »