Oyster Wars

Oyster Wars
Oyster War engagement in 1886
Date1865–1959
Location
Chesapeake Bay
Potomac River
Parties
Casualties and losses
Unknown deaths and arrests
Unknown deaths

The Oyster Wars were a series of sometimes violent disputes between oyster pirates and authorities and legal watermen from Maryland and Virginia in the waters of the Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac River from 1865 until about 1959.

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