The Simmons brothers, Wroten and Stewart of Lancaster County, owned the Chesapeake Bay buyboat “Seven Brothers.” They are the same Simmons who lived on Simmons Lane between White Stone and Kilmarnock. The watermelon season started near the end of summer and many local buyboat captains purchased boat loads of watermelons for the Baltimore, Philadelphia, Norfolk and Washington, D.C. retail watermelon market. Some would go “down the ditch” (on the intracoastal waterways) as far away as Edenton, N.C. to buy melons...