After the Civil War, Oxford emerged from its " long slumber " to nearly 100 years of a new prosperity signaled by completion of the railroad in 1871 and improved methods of canning and packing which opened national markets for oysters from the Chesapeake Bay's bountiful beds.

Chesapeake Bay's once flourishing oyster population historically filtered excess nutrients from the estuary's entire water volume every three to four days.

The river empties into the northern end of the Chesapeake Bay, providing half of the Bay's freshwater inflow.

Scientists believe that the Chesapeake Bay's once-flourishing oyster population historically filtered the estuary's entire water volume of excess nutrients every three or four days.

* the landforms on each side of the Chesapeake Bay's mouth

Sleepy Creek is a tributary of the Potomac River in the United States, belonging to the Chesapeake Bay's watershed.

Since the eastern side of the Front is drained by Chesapeake Bay rivers that drop fairly rapidly through the Ridge and Valley Province to the low-elevation waters of the Great Appalachian Valley, erosion on the eastern slope of this caprock layer has been much more intense than on the western slope, where drainage to low elevations is spread over a greater distance ( particularly considering stream meanders ) through the Appalachian Plateau to the Ohio River.

This species is native and found throughout the much of the south in the Mississippi River drainage ; existing all the way to the Gulf and Atlantic Coasts and Northward to the Chesapeake Bay.

All other parts of the county are in the Chesapeake Bay basin.

The bridge tunnel is owned and administered by the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel District.

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The South Chesapeake City Historic District was listed in 1974.

The residents of Hanging Rock are served by the Rock Hill Local School District and the Briggs Lawrence County Public Library in Ironton, with branches in South Point, Chesapeake, Proctorville and Willow Wood.

Geology of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park and Potomac River Corridor, District of Columbia, Maryland, West Virginia, and Virginia: U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1691, 2008.

A proposed modern road bridge connecting the Greater Vancouver Regional District to Vancouver Island in the manner of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel, has been discussed for decades, ever since the commencement of service by BC Ferries.

The CBBT was built by and is operated by the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel District, a political subdivision of the Commonwealth of Virginia governed by the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel Commission.

In 1954, the Virginia General Assembly ( state legislature ) created a political subdivision, the Chesapeake Bay Ferry District and its governing body, the Chesapeake Bay Ferry Commission.

The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park located in the District of Columbia and the states of Maryland and West Virginia.

The team has also garnered great success on the state and district levels-having captured the state title for the majority of the past two decades and the Chesapeake District title in 2011.

The Susquehanna River flows past the Borough of Columbia into the Chesapeake Bay.

Contrary to its normal migration routine, large flocks of Canada Geese have established permanent residence in Esquimalt, British Columbia, on Chesapeake Bay, in Virginia's James River regions, and in the Triangle area of North Carolina ( Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill ), and nearby Hillsborough.

Others were stationed through World War II for coast defense of Manila, Bermuda, Newfoundland, Puget Sound, the Columbia River, Chesapeake Bay, Delaware Bay, and Fort Hancock, New Jersey ( near New York City ).

Jillian's locations as of August 2012 are the original location in Boston, MA, Manchester, NH, Chesapeake, VA, San Francisco, CA, Seattle, WA, Universal City, CA, Peoria, IL, and in Columbia, SC.

It may have been the first European expedition to explore parts of the Chesapeake Bay, which the Spaniards called " Bahía de Santa María " or " Bahía de Madre de Dios.

The largest MLS in the United States is currently the Washington, DC region's Metropolitan Regional Information Systems, Inc ( MRIS ) covering Washington DC, most of Maryland ( including the Chesapeake Bay counties ) and suburban Virginia counties, and parts of West Virginia and Pennsylvania.

The Chesapeake Bay Watershed at is the largest watershed of the Atlantic Seaboard of North America and includes much of Virginia and Maryland, as well as parts of West Virginia, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New York and all of Washington, DC.

Southern Bell also operated in Charleston and other parts of West Virginia from 1883 until 1917, when The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of West Virginia took over operations.

In British English and in many other countries in the Commonwealth, as well as some parts of the United States ( near the Chesapeake Bay, parts of New England ), a creek is a tidal water channel.

It is located in parts of southern Chesapeake and Suffolk cities in Virginia and northern Gates, Pasquotank and Camden counties in North Carolina.

It is located in parts of the independent cities of Chesapeake and Suffolk in Virginia, and the counties of Camden, Gates, and Pasquotank in North Carolina.

* The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and the Western Maryland Railway become parts of the Chessie System.

Established along the now-defunct Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, the town became a hub for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, which built a six mile long rail yard along the Potomac from 1891 to 1912, boosting the population to over 5, 000, and making Brunswick virtually a company town.

In 1799 the keel of USS Chesapeake, one of the first six frigates authorized by Congress, was laid, making her the first ship built in Gosport for the U. S. Navy.

Wallis served as the temporary captain of the British frigate for a period of exactly six days as she made her way back to Halifax, Nova Scotia, with the Chesapeake flying the Blue Ensign above the Stars and Stripes.

January-Armada / Hoffler of Chesapeake, Va., has purchased six buildings on seven acres ( 28, 000 m² ) for the construction of a multiplex cinema and up to 175, 000 ft² ( 16, 000 m² ) of retail space.

At the same track on April 26 he finished last of the six runners in the Chesapeake Stakes, after which he was reported to be suffering from a kidney ailment described as " azoturia " or " blackwater ".

The Chesapeake and Delaware Canal ( C & D Canal ) is a 14 &# 8209 ; mile ( 23 &# 8209 ; km ) long, 450 &# 8209 ; foot ( 137 &# 8209 ; m ) wide and 40 &# 8209 ; foot ( 11 &# 8209 ; m ) deep ship canal that cuts across the states of Maryland and Delaware, in the United States.

The Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay provided a water route to the free states of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, but the organizers had to acquire a ship to transport the slaves over the 225 miles of water.

Delaware was especially torn because the majority of people from the northern part of the state aligned themselves more with the ideals of the Northeastern states of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, whereas the people of the lower counties aligned themselves more with the ideals of its fellow Chesapeake states of Maryland and Virginia.

U. S. Secretary of State William H. Seward told the British that he wanted the Chesapeake returned immediately and the captures put in jail and extradited to the states.

A Fortune 500 company, Dollar Tree is headquartered in Chesapeake, Virginia and operates 4, 400 stores throughout the 48 contiguous U. S. states and in Canada.

Apparently because the Deepwater Railway in West Virginia and Tidewater Railway in Virginia were each under the jurisdiction of their respective states, an association between the two little railroads was not identified initially by the various lawyers for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway and the Norfolk and Western Railway.

In the Chesapeake region, meanwhile, antebellum authors of enduring interest include John Pendleton Kennedy, whose novel Swallow Barn offered a colorful sketch of Virginia plantation life ; and Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, whose 1836 work The Partisan Leader foretold the secession of the Southern states, and imagined a guerrilla war in Virginia between federal and secessionist armies.

As the 21st century dawned, Maryland joined neighboring states in a new initiative to save the health of Chesapeake Bay, whose aquatic life and seafood industry are threatened by waterfront residential development, as well as by fertilizer and livestock waste entering the bay, especially from Pennsylvania's Susquehanna River.