Transportation on the Chesapeake Highway

"...two Ferry boats were procured...we made the mouth of the Severn River but the ignorance of the People on board, with respect to the navigation of it run us aground first on Greenbury Point from whence with much exertion and ...

Sentinel Peak

Used as a lookout and for signal fires by the Indians prior to and since 1692 and later by early settlers

Marker is on South Sentinel Peak Road, on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Site of McPeak House

Cited in Official Records of military operations at Jonesboro, 1864; not the one standing in 1958, but one at rear on the old road of which the driveway is a remaining portion.

Aug. 31, 1864, Hardee’s A. C. & Anderson’s div. ...

Sentinel Peak

Used as a lookout and for signal fires by the Indians prior to and since 1692 and later by early settlers

Marker is on South Sentinel Peak Road, on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Susquehanna River/Chesapeake Bay

This marker signifies the point where the beautiful

Susquehanna River completes its 444 mile journey

to meet the Chesapeake Bay

Presented to

City of Havre de Grace

by the

Susquehanna River Basin Commission

May 18, 1995

Marker can be reached from Commerce Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Lure of the Chesapeake

Canvasback ducks float quietly on the water

The hunter waits

Flocks of ducks appear in the sky, cup their wings and drop down to the waiting canvasbacks

The hunter's ploy has worked

For it was not real canvasbacks that lured the ducks but ...

Peak

This town, founded in 1853 as Peak's Station on the Greenville & Columbia Railroad, was named for railroad superintendent H.T. Peake. In 1865 Federal troops destroyed the tracks here and over the Broad River. Peak, incorporated in 1880, prospered as ...

Map of Lower Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay

Piney Point Lighthouse, Museum and Historic Park, a Chesapeake Bay Gateway, is one of your entry points to enjoy and learn about the places and stories of the Chesapeake and its watershed.

The 64,000 square-mile watershed is a complete ecosystem. Home ...

Pikes Peak Overlook Landscape Interpretation

Across this impressive gorge of the Mississippi River is the mouth of the Wisconsin River. The steeply notched valleys of both rivers are carved into sedimentary bedrock which underlies the level, plateau-like uplands and forms the abrupt, picturesque bluffs along ...

Joshua Barney's Barge and the Chesapeake Flotilla

Joshua Barney's Barge is a 4/5 scale, authentic working replica of an American warship of the Chesapeake Flotilla from the War of 1812. This barge was built as a project of the Prince George's County tricentennial in 1996 by The ...