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Reedville Fishermen's Museum is located in the unincorporated town of Reedville along the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay in Northumberland County, Virginia. Reedville has a long heritage in the Atlantic menhaden fishing industry, and the museum dedicates itself to preserving the watermen's heritage and that of Reedville.
Reedville is an unincorporated community in Northumberland County in the Northern Neck region of the U.S. state of Virginia.It is located at the eastern terminus of U.S. Route 360 (Northumberland Highway) east of Heathsville, at the head of Cockrell's Creek on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay.
As of 2007, Shearwater was active as a fishing vessel based at Reedville, Virginia. [3] She was retired in 2013 and reefed off the coast of Delaware onto the Del-Jersey-Land Inshore Reef site in 2015. [4]
Reedville is home to the Atlantic menhaden fishing industry. It is named for Captain Elijah W. Reed (1827-1888), who is credited with bringing the menhaden fishing industry, and the tremendous wealth that resulted from it, to Reedville—and to Northumberland County in general.
By 1885, Reedville was heavily engaged in the menhaden fishing industry. Menhaden factories on Cockrell Creek produced fish oil, meal, and fertilizer from menhaden. The menhaden fishing industry brought tremendous wealth to Reedville and to Northumberland County. The unincorporated town of Reedville, Virginia, was named in his honor.
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The registers for 1928 and 1930 show the vessel operating for the Douglas Company of Reedville, Virginia, engaged in fishing. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ note 2 ] On 28 December 1942 Margaret was chartered for $850 a month by the U.S. Coast Guard, converted at a cost of $115,200 and commissioned as the emergency manned (EM) USCGC EM Margaret (WYP 323).