The town has has a self guided walking tour called The Lafayette Trail. We started close to the marina and found paintings and murals all over the place. This excerpt is taken from the web, that explains the significance of the Marquis de Lafayette in Havre de Grace.
The name Havre de Grace is attributed to General Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834), who played a large part in the American Revolution. While on his way to meet General George Washington in Philadelphia in 1782, Lafayette admired the lovely view of the broad Susquehanna River as it opened into the Chesapeake Bay. He is said to have exclaimed, “C’est Le Havre!” for it reminded him of the French port city Le Havre (originally called Le Havre de Grâce). Our city was founded in 1782 and incorporated in 1785, making Havre de Grace the second oldest municipality in Maryland after Annapolis.
Another mural showing horse racing.
Part of the Lafayette Trail took us by the Duck Decoy Museum. It might sound corny, but there were 4 men that were world renown for making decoys and boy are they stunning. My favorite duck is a wood duck and they were so lifelike. The mallard preening itself was lifelike also, but the most lifelike was the bass. Get this, it was carved and made out of bass wood!
The route also took us by a town park on the water front. It was beautiful and full of people walking, sitting and just enjoying themselves; that was good to see. If you look closely, you can see a sparrow keeping watch on the fish tail. Why you ask? There’s a huge nest inside the art work, maybe even sparrow condos, ha ha.
I forgot to mention that we had lunch at the Vintage Cafe before our walking tour. But, on the way home, we stopped at the ice cream sister store (Bomboy’s Homemade Chocolate) for a box of chocolates. The lighthouse one has creamed peanut butter inside, but it’s so pretty…. nahh, I’m gonna eat it.
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