On August 18, 1865, Galena celebrated the return of its Civil War hero General Ulysses S. Grant. Following a jubilant procession with much flag waving and speeches, a group of Galena citizens presented the General with a handsome furnished house on Bouthillier Street.
The price of a bushel of male crabs in New York should drop below $40 when landings peak. The company MarylandBlueCrabExpress.com offers a variety of blue crab choices. Here, a bushel of steam blue crabs can cost anywhere from $90 to $155 depending on the size of the crabs.
We called 30 crab shacks in the Baltimore area to get an idea of the average price of crabs right now. We only called establishments that offer steamed crabs to-go and asked prices for large males by the dozen and bushel.*. According to data collected by the Baltimore Sun from the Maryland Department of Agriculture, the average price for a dozen large crabs in Maryland in 2013 was $38 and in 2014 was $35 (data for 2015 was not collected).