Question #12613. Asked by kaylee.
Last updated May 16 2021.
There’s not a ton of great documentation floating around out there to corroborate the oral tradition, though. The tale of the inaugural 1821 joust has been rewritten time and again in local newspapers and other accounts, and a 1941 article in the Maryland Historical Magazine mentions the yearly tournament at Natural Chimneys as one of the best-known jousts in the South. Nevertheless, the article identifies an 1840 joust outside of Baltimore as the first to definitively occur in the United States.