In May 1607, the Susan Constant, the Discovery, and the Godspeed sailed through Chesapeake Bay and thirty miles up the James River to a parcel of densely wooded, swamp land.

Other folkloric creatures include the Nain Rouge of Detroit, Michigan and Chessie, a legendary sea monster said to live in Chesapeake Bay.

** The Chesapeake Bay and other locally prominent bays

Baltimore clippers were topsail schooners developed in Chesapeake Bay before the American Revolution, and which reached their zenith between 1795 and 1815.

A ridge about in elevation extends along the western boundary of the state and separates between the watersheds that feed Delaware River and Bay to the east and the Chesapeake Bay to the west.

Before Delaware was settled by European colonists, the area was home to the Eastern Algonquian tribes known as the Unami Lenape or Delaware throughout the Delaware valley, and the Nanticoke along the rivers leading into the Chesapeake Bay.

The end is set at a major extinction event called the Grande Coupure ( the " Great Break " in continuity ) or the Eocene – Oligocene extinction event, which may be related to the impact of one or more large bolides in Siberia and in what is now Chesapeake Bay.

Generalized food web of waterbirds from Chesapeake Bay

Only Virginia and the Chesapeake Bay area produced a useful cash crop, tobacco, but it quickly wore the soil out.

Admiral de Grasse defeated a British fleet at Chesapeake Bay while Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau and Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette joined American forces in defeating the British at Yorktown.

It was thought to breed in Labrador, and it wintered from Nova Scotia to as far south as Chesapeake Bay.

* Chesapeake Bay impact crater ( 90 km diameter )

* Middle Peninsula, on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay

* Northern Neck, on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay

* Virginia Peninsula, on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay

There were several differences between the novel and the film, including the Red October traveling up the Chesapeake Bay and near Tom Clancy's Calvert County waterfront home, and the prominence of the Royal Navy, including HMS Invincible.

The lyrics come from " Defence of Fort McHenry ", a poem written in 1814 by the 35-year-old lawyer and amateur poet, Francis Scott Key, after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British Royal Navy ships in Chesapeake Bay during the Battle of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812.

*, a block sloop in commission from 1812 to 1814 that was part of Joshua Barney's Chesapeake Bay Flotilla in the War of 1812

* Enterprise ( 1776 ) schooner ( 20 December 1776 – February 1777 ), the second American ship to bear this name served on Chesapeake Bay during the Revolutionary War.

The geography and climate of the Commonwealth are shaped by the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Chesapeake Bay, which provide habitat for much of its flora and fauna.

The Chesapeake Bay separates the contiguous portion of the Commonwealth from the two-county peninsula of Virginia's Eastern Shore.

Many of Virginia's rivers flow into the Chesapeake Bay, including the Potomac, Rappahannock, York, and James, which create three peninsulas in the bay.

It includes the Eastern Shore and major estuaries of Chesapeake Bay.

Influenced by the Gulf Stream, coastal weather is subject to hurricanes, most pronouncedly near the mouth of Chesapeake Bay.

However, the city is connected to downtown Washington, D. C. ( some away ) by a continuous bike / running trail through the Alleghenies and along the Potomac Valley, known as the Great Allegheny Passage and Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Towpath.

* 1781 – Battle of the Chesapeake in the American Revolutionary War: the British Navy is repelled by the French Navy, contributing to the British surrender at Yorktown.

The Chesapeake Bay is host to many species, including blue crabs, clams, oysters, and rockfish ( also known as striped bass ).

The Chesapeake Bay, while not a national park, is protected by both state and federal legislation, and the jointly run Chesapeake Bay Program which conducts restoration on the bay and its watershed.

, Virginia Beach is the most populous city in the Commonwealth, with Norfolk and Chesapeake second and third, respectively.

One of the largest breeding areas is the Chesapeake Bay, where populations from Chesapeake and Delaware bays have intermingled.

It occupies the Calvert Peninsula which is bordered on the east by the Chesapeake Bay and on the west by the Patuxent River.

A branch of the United States Naval Research Laboratory is located at Chesapeake Beach.

The Cove Point LNG Terminal is located near Lusby, Maryland, on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay.

Oakland is situated only miles from the source of the Potomac River, which flows directly into the Chesapeake Bay.

Beyond the National Road's eastern terminus at Cumberland and toward the Atlantic coast, a series of private turnpikes were completed in 1824, connecting the National Road ( Pike ) with Baltimore, Maryland and its port on Chesapeake Bay ; these feeder routes formed what is referred to as an eastern extension of the National Road.

The western border is defined by the lower reaches of the Susquehanna River and the northernmost coves, flats and tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay.

The lowest elevation is sea level along the Chesapeake Bay.

The county is bisected from east to west by the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, which connects the Delaware River to the Chesapeake Bay by way of the Elk River.

The lowest elevation is sea level along the Chesapeake Bay.

Chesapeake Energy Arena in downtown is the large multipurpose arena which hosts concerts, NHL exhibition games, and many of the city's pro sports teams.

To avoid the takeover, CCC forged a deal with CDC lending them the money to purchase control in CCC instead, and " That is how a computer company came to own a fleet of fishing boats in the Chesapeake Bay.

It is bordered by the Choptank River to the north, Talbot County to the northwest, Caroline County to the northeast, Wicomico County to the southeast, Sussex County, Delaware, to the east, and the Chesapeake Bay to the west.

The Chesapeake Bay ( ) is the largest estuary in the United States.