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The Chesapeake Bay separates the contiguous portion of the Commonwealth from the two-county peninsula of Virginia's Eastern Shore.
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Chesapeake and Bay
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.
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.
Chesapeake and separates
The York River is formed at West Point by the confluence of the Mattaponi and Pamunkey rivers ; from there, it separates the Virginia Peninsula and Middle Peninsula regions of eastern Virginia as it flows approximately 40 miles to the Chesapeake Bay.
The region is separated from the remainder of the state by the Allegheny Front, which separates the Mississippi watershed from that of Chesapeake Bay.
Chesapeake and contiguous
The town is contiguous with the larger town of Chesapeake Beach which has a new boardwalk, a new resort spa hotel, a recreational water park, and new housing.
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.
Chesapeake and portion
A major portion of the city drains to the Chesapeake Bay by way of the Lynnhaven River and its tributaries.
Chesapeake is an independent city located in the South Hampton Roads portion of the Hampton Roads metropolitan area of Virginia in the United States.
Chesapeake is a diverse city with few urban areas as well as many square miles of protected farmland, forests, and wetlands, including a substantial portion of the Great Dismal Swamp.
A second portion of the road named Chesapeake Boulevard opened in 2010 on the eastern side of Route 2-4 and provides access to the new Calvert Middle School.
The portion of the Chesapeake and Ohio ( C & O ) Canal along the Maryland side of the Potomac River across from Shepherdstown was built during the 1830s.
After mating, the female crab travels to the southern portion of the Chesapeake, using ebb tide transport to migrate from areas of low salinity to areas of high salinity.
Building of Interstate 64 was the first priority in the region, and a portion of Interstate 264 through Portsmouth connecting with the Downtown Tunnel was completed even as I-64 finally reached its eastern terminus at Bower's Hill in Norfolk County ( which became the City of Chesapeake in 1963 ).
I-64, the portion of the Hampton Roads Beltway which was completed first, makes a huge long arc around the area, from Hampton through portions of Norfolk, Virginia Beach, and Chesapeake and around Portsmouth to reach Bower's Hill at the edge of the Great Dismal Swamp.
Although organized as a city, and one of the larger in Virginia, Chesapeake has both busy suburban and industrial areas and mostly rural sections, including a large portion of the Great Dismal Swamp and large tracts of preserved forest land.
The Virginia portion of the canal was located in Norfolk County, which today is the City of Chesapeake, where the northern portion of the canal at Deep Creek connects with the Southern Branch of the Elizabeth River.
This portion has several locks that have created a series of small lakes in which rowing, kayaking, and canoeing regattas take place ( hosted by the Oklahoma City Boathouse Foundation, Chesapeake Boat House, and Oklahoma City University ).
A portion of the abandoned Chesapeake and Ohio Railway spur from the Peninsula Extension main line just east of near Ewell Station to the base ( also built during World War II ) is now a recreational rail trail.
Chesapeake and Commonwealth
, Virginia Beach is the most populous city in the Commonwealth, with Norfolk and Chesapeake second and third, respectively.
Chesapeake is the second-largest city by land area in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
The Northern Neck is the northernmost of three peninsulas ( traditionally called " necks " in Virginia ) on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
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 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.
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