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Cerinda W. Evans

Best known for writing about maritime history and the industrialist Collis P. Huntington, this author focused on the people, ships, and businesses that helped shape early America. Her work is especially appealing for listeners who enjoy history grounded in industry, trade, and place.

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Some Notes on Shipbuilding and Shipping in Colonial Virginia

Some Notes on Shipbuilding and Shipping in Colonial Virginia

by Cerinda W. Evans

About the author

Cerinda W. Evans was an American history writer whose known works center on shipping, shipbuilding, and the life of railroad and shipbuilding figure Collis P. Huntington. Sources available here consistently link her to Collis Potter Huntington and to Some Notes on Shipbuilding and Shipping in Colonial Virginia, a concise study of Virginia's colonial maritime world.

Her bibliography suggests a strong interest in the connection between business history and maritime history. Collis Potter Huntington, published by the Mariners' Museum in 1954, appears in two volumes, while Some Notes on Shipbuilding and Shipping in Colonial Virginia was published in 1957 as part of the Jamestown 350th Anniversary historical booklet series.

Reliable biographical detail about her life beyond these publications was not easy to confirm from the sources found, so the clearest picture comes through her writing itself: a researcher drawn to American industry, seafaring, and the historical forces that built ports, railroads, and regional economies.