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Lobster as a Crab Alternative

…your lobster, anywhere, any time.

As wonderful as steamed crabs are to eat and as incredible a “journey” it is to pick ’em and eat ’em yourself, we realize there are many of you who prefer the taste of lobster. Of course, as you must know, lobster here in the mid-Atlantic must be imported from somewhere. The best restaurants and crab houses will be offering only Fresh Lobster from the State of Maine. (Lesser-known eateries and chain restaurants – well, who knows…)

What if you’re not feeling crabby today? Lobster may be your choice of shellfish and you won’t find great cold water Lobster year round like the ones from LobsterAnywhere (an online supplier). Their Maine Lobster comes from the Atlantic and will be delivered fresh to your door.

On the other hand, if you are looking for just a fabulous Lobster Tail, The Crab Place, in Crisfield, Maryland chooses only the highest grade of cold water tails to ship to you. Don’t settle for warm water Lobster at lesser quality when for the same price you can get the highest quality of Lobster on the market. Each Lobster or tail comes complete with cooking instructions.

Live Maine Lobsters

They also offer fabulous Chowders and Appetizers and to complete your meal, decadent New England desserts like Whoopie Pies. And you can also gift someone the pleasure of Maine Lobster. Don’t forget, those gift packages can also be for you.

If you can’t get out of the house for a great meal, you can have the quality of fresh Maine lobster delivered right to your door – literally any where and at almost any time. Yum.

Seafood Gift Certificates
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Crab & Seafood Recipes

Maryland and Eastern Shore style recipes for Chesapeake Blue Crabs, crab cakes, crab soup and other seafood.

This recipe section is currently being assembled with a few interesting recipes contributed by readers. We certainly don’t want to use anything copied from a seafood cookbook. A few more are in the works as you read this…

Crab Claw Open Vertical
It’s all about the Maryland crabs, right?
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The First Port Covington Website

19+ Years of PortCovington.com (now on temporary hiatus)

The first iteration of the PortCovington.com website was recorded by the Internet Archive “Wayback Machine” on February 2, 2004, just over a week after the domain was first registered (01/24/04). As near as we can tell, this was the first website solely about the geographic area known as Port Covington and its role as a South Baltimore “neighborhood” among the myriad and diverse neighborhoods in the City of Baltimore.

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Screen Capture of the first PortCovington.com web presence.

The small bit of narrative in the image above was much as the “intro” to the site is today. It reads: ‘In mid-2002, the world’s largest retailer, Wal-Mart, opened its first Baltimore City stores at Port Covington in the South Baltimore area. Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club are the first retailers to locate in the new Port Covington Shopping Center, a 60-acre, waterfront site on East Cromwell Street. Several hundred City jobs were created when the 142,000 square foot Wal-Mart and the 130,000 square foot Sam’s Club opened their doors. This strategically-located retail development at the site of a former City rail yard has come a long way – but has a long way yet to go. Watch for further development of this “newest” of waterfront destinations.’

The few links were to existing, local websites, four of which exist today, Including our own South Baltimore directory website. The Digital Harbor domain now redirects to PortCovington because we believe this location will become home to many “digital” enterprises.

There was not much done to develop the website in the last dozen years because not much has been done to develop Port Covington for most of that time. Although the proposals were impressive, the WalMart and Sam’s Club and curbing and intersections never amounted to much at all. The Sam’s closed after a brief run – WalMart fared better but one store does not a community make. The Sam’s Club building remained vacant and unoccupied for nearly a decade until the CEO of Under Armour, Kevin Plank, had the vision to see what it could (and will) become.