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flows into the chesapeake bay. we'll go up river of the highway 4 bridge, and highway 4 is the actually very end of pennsylvania avenue. same pennsylvania avenue that runs from d.c. and runs up to the patuxent river. the scorpion is believed to be one mile, two miles up river from that bridge. so we're about 30 minutes from washington, d.c., 20, 25 minutes from a23457 police, maryland, and probably about 40 minutes from baltimore. in 1814, the river was deeper, perhaps wider as well. there's been a lot of sedmantation from agricultural runoff since 1814. at this time, you know, durin...

proposed providing a flotilla. in august 1814, come dore barney was forced to destroy and sink his fleet of 15 vessels in maryland's patuxent river. the flagship "scorpion" discovered in 1979 under the river mud and partially excavated. now robert neland is further studying the wreck. we learned about the project and visited the navy's underwater archaeology lab in the washington navy yard where artifacts from the ship are studied. >> this is the patuxent river, flows into the chesapeake bay. we'll go up river of the highway 4 bridge, and highway 4 is the actually very end of pennsyl...