WebChesapeake is a novel by James A. Michener, published by Random House in 1978. The story deals with several families living in the Chesapeake Bay area around Virginia and Maryland, from 1583 to 1978. Plot summary. The story-line, like much of Michener's work, depicts a number of characters within family groups over a long time period, richly ...

WebOld Bay Seasoning is named after the Old Bay Line, a passenger ship line that plied the waters of the Chesapeake Bay from Baltimore to Norfolk, Virginia, in the early 1900s. In 1939, a Jewish-German immigrant named Gustav Brunn started the Baltimore Spice Company.. The origins of the company can be traced back to Wertheim, Germany, where …

WebThe Chesapeake Bay deadrise or deadrise workboat is a type of traditional fishing boat used in the Chesapeake Bay.Watermen use these boats year round for everything from crabbing and oystering to catching fish or eels. Traditionally wooden hulled, the deadrise is characterised by a sharp bow that quickly becomes a flat V shape moving aft along the …

WebThe bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) is a bird of prey found in North America. A sea eagle, it has two known subspecies and forms a species pair with the white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla), which occupies the same niche as the bald eagle in the Palearctic.Its range includes most of Canada and Alaska, all of the contiguous United States, and …

WebThe Chesapeake & Delaware Canal (C&D Canal) is a 14-mile (22.5 km)-long, 450-foot (137.2 m)-wide and 35-foot (10.7 m)-deep ship canal that connects the Delaware River with the Chesapeake Bay in the states of Delaware and Maryland in the United States.. In the mid‑17th century, mapmaker Augustine Herman observed that these great bodies of …

WebThe Battle of the Thames / ˈ t ɛ m z /, also known as the Battle of Moraviantown, was an American victory in the War of 1812 against Tecumseh's Confederacy and their British allies. It took place on October 5, 1813, in Upper Canada, near Chatham.The British lost control of Southwestern Ontario as a result of the battle; Tecumseh was killed, and his confederacy …

WebDelaware Bay is the estuary outlet of the Delaware River on the northeast seaboard of the United States. It is approximately 782 square miles (2,030 km 2) in area, the bay's freshwater mixes for many miles with the saltwater of the Atlantic Ocean.. The bay is bordered inland by the states of Delaware and New Jersey, and the Delaware Capes, …

WebWinyah Bay is a coastal estuary that is the confluence of the Waccamaw River, the Pee Dee River, the Black River, and the Sampit River in Georgetown County, in eastern South Carolina.Its name comes from the Winyaw, who inhabited the region during the eighteenth century.The historic port city of Georgetown is located on the bay, and the bay generally …

WebThe Chesapeake Bay impact crater was formed by a bolide that struck the eastern shore of North America about 35.5 ± 0.3 million years ago, in the late Eocene epoch. It is one of the best-preserved "wet-target" impact craters in the world. Continued slumping of sediments over the rubble of the crater has helped shape the Chesapeake Bay

WebThe Eastern Shore of Maryland is a part of the U.S. state of Maryland that lies mostly on the east side of the Chesapeake Bay.Nine counties are normally included in the region. The Eastern Shore is part of the larger Delmarva Peninsula that Maryland shares with Delaware and Virginia.. As of the 2010 census, its population was 449,226, with just under 8% of …

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WebCSS Baltic was a casemate ironclad that served in the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War.A towboat and cotton lighter before the war, she was purchased by the state of Alabama in December 1861 for conversion into an ironclad. After being transferred to the Confederate Navy in May 1862, she served on Mobile Bay off the Gulf of Mexico. ...

WebRose bay, a common name for Rhododendron maximum; Architecture and interior design. Bay (architecture), a module in classical or Gothic architecture; Bay, the name in English of a ken, a Japanese unit of measure and proportion; Bay window, a window space projecting outward from the main walls of a building and forming a bay in a room

WebThe Potomac River (/ p ə ˈ t oʊ m ə k / ()) drains the Mid-Atlantic United States, flowing from the Potomac Highlands into Chesapeake Bay.It is 405 miles (652 km) long, with a drainage area of 14,700 square miles (38,000 km 2), and is the fourth-largest river along the East Coast of the United States and the 21st-largest in the United States. Over 5 million …