A little known tobacco farming village in the 1600’s, Solomons Island first achieved national prominence for shipbuilding during the war of 1812. Then in the late 19th century the town’s namesake, Isaac Solomon, started an oyster caning industry, that would become the island’s major employer. The Navy built the nation’s first amphibious training base, here, in WWII. And finally, when President John F. Kennedy sailed one of town’s most famous yachts, The Manitou in 1962, Solomon’s Island would forever be linked to boating and the Chesapeake Bay.

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