Oysters

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I asked the question because my daughter once did a paper on oyster production in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries. The amounts obtained from those sources were astounding, and with the growth of railroads that could carry the products into the Midwest, it led to over-harvesting and destroying most of our oyster beds here in Maryland by the WWII period. I was surprised, however, to see dates such as 1837, indicating an ample supply in Springfield at that early a time.