SYMHC Classics: Chesapeake Bay Oyster Wars
Stuff You Missed in History Class
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🗓️ 20 September 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
This 2013 episode covers the years after the Industrial Revolution and the Civil War when the oyster supply became so scarce that people turned to oyster piracy.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:06.4 | Happy Saturday. |
| 0:08.0 | Our recent episode on William Firth Wells and Mildred Weeks Wells |
| 0:12.6 | reminded me of our very long ago episode on the Chesapeake Bay Oyster Wars. |
| 0:19.8 | This episode originally came out August 19th, 2013, long enough ago that it is not in a number of podcast players anymore, |
| 0:30.7 | including the one that I used to try to go listen to it to make sure we did not say anything super incorrect. |
| 0:36.8 | I also feel like I sound a lot different |
| 0:40.2 | in it than I do now. Maybe. At the end of the episode, we talk about efforts to restore native |
| 0:47.4 | oyster beds in the Chesapeake Bay area. The Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement was signed in |
| 0:52.9 | 2014 with a goal of restoring the oyster beds in 10 Bay tributaries by this year, 2025. |
| 1:00.3 | A press release from the Chesapeake Bay program in July describes this goal as within reach, with reef construction and seating complete in nine of the 10 tributaries and and the tenth expected to be completed in the near future. |
| 1:14.0 | So good news for Chesapeake Bay. |
| 1:16.0 | Enjoy the episode. |
| 1:20.0 | Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 1:31.1 | Hello. of I Heart Radio. Hello and welcome to the podcast. |
| 1:34.0 | I'm Tracy V. Wilson. |
| 1:35.4 | And I'm Holly Fry. |
| 1:36.5 | Holly. |
| 1:37.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:37.6 | Do you like oysters? |
| 1:39.2 | I love oysters. |
| 1:41.0 | Yeah. |
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