A New World on the Chesapeake

The generous resources of the Chesapeake Bay invited Englsih exploration and settlement of Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware.

With Native American assistance, English settlers developed a cash crop industry. Tobacco cultivation and export was the first commercial enterprise in the New World ...

National Bank of Chesapeake City

C. 1903

The National Bank of Chesapeake City was built in 1903 by the John Banks family. The exterior is Port Deposit granite and the interior still houses the original bank vault and tin ceilings. This massive granite building is two ...

Lightship Chesapeake

The Baltimore Maritime Museum

Lightship 116 "Chesapeake" was built in 1930 as a manned navigational beacon and fulfilled this role under the US Lightship Service and the US Coast Guard for nearly 40 years. On station in all weather and ...

Chesapeake Biological Laboratory

Founded by R.V. Truitt, 1925. Sponsored by Maryland Conservation Department since 1931, in cooperation with Carnegie Institution, Johns Hopkins and Maryland universities, Goucher, St. John's, Washington, and Western Maryland colleges "to afford a research study center where facts tending toward ...

Chesapeake College

This first regional college in Maryland and first two-year community college on the Eastern Shore was founded December 22, 1965, and classes began on the campus September 1969. the sponsors include the State of Maryland and Caroline, Kent, Queen Anne’s ...

Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal

Constructed 1855~59 by steam dredges to assist commerce. Now part of Intracoastal Waterway.

N.C. Cut 5 miles long.

Marker is on Caratoke Highway (U.S. 158) north of the Joseph Palmer Knapp Bridge.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park. The canal and towpath are dedicated to Justice William O. Douglas of White Ferry.

Marker is at the intersection of Whites Ferry Road (Maryland Route 107) and River Road, on the left when ...

Chesapeake Beach Railway

1897-1935

Built by Otto Mears of Colorado in 1897. The train track linking Washington, D.C. to Chesapeake Beach crossed here. The original depot to the east is now the Railway Museum. Excursion steamboats also brought passengers to Chesapeake Beach from Baltimore. ...

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal. Commenced at Georgetown. July 4th 1828. Chief Engineer Benjamin Wright.

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Company, 1850. President James M. Coale. Directors William A. Bradley, Henry Daingerfield, Wm. Cost Johnson, John Pickell, George Schley, Samuel P. Smith. ...