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.

It was favored for its strategic location at the top of the Chesapeake Bay ; this location would facilitate trade while being secure in time of war.

It was named in honor of Captain James Lawrence ( 1781 – 1813 ), who while commanding the USS Chesapeake in an 1813 battle with the Royal Navy frigate HMS Shannon, issued his famous command: " Don't give up the ship!

* USS Patapsco ( 1799 ), a sloop originally named USS Chesapeake but renamed in 1799 while still under construction

The area now known as Dundalk was first explored by John Smith in 1608, when while conducting an expedition up the Chesapeake Bay he landed on the area known as the Patapsco Neck.

In a traffic circle outside the Arts Building stands a landmark bronze fountain-sculpture made for Annmarie Garden which depicts a Chesapeake Bay waterman standing in a boat while holding oyster-harvesting tongs.

Its northernmost point is near the mouth of the Susquehanna River, where the river enters the Chesapeake Bay, while on the south, it is bordered by the Gunpowder River.

In 1973, Chesapeake ( created as a result of the merger of South Norfolk with Norfolk County in 1963 ) and Currituck County were added to the MSA, while Virginia Beach ( which had merged with Princess Anne County in 1963 ) became a primary city.

* USS Chesapeake, a sloop renamed in 1799 while still under construction, launched in 1799, and sold in 1801

It is commonly stated that Henry's rail work, including his race against the steam hammer, occurred while working along the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway.

Sightings are mostly of juveniles who stay near the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay where food is plentiful, while the adults continue to the Caribbean to mate.

Most railroads used this name, but a number adopted different titles, including Confederation ( Canadian National ), Golden State ( Southern Pacific ), Niagara ( New York Central and NdeM ), Pocono ( DL & W ), Wyoming ( Lehigh Valley Railroad ), Dixie ( NC & StL ), Big Apple ( Central of Georgia Railway ), Greenbrier ( Chesapeake and Ohio Railway ), Western ( D & RGW ), Potomac ( Western Maryland Railway ) while the RF & P gave each of its three classes a separate title: General, Governor and Statesman.

On the upside, a lack of hunting by man has caused this crab's numbers to grow heartily while others ( notably the Chesapeake Bay ) have decreased.

Some of the programs authorized by the 1972 law are ongoing ( e. g. section 104 research programs, section 106 pollution control programs, section 117 Chesapeake Bay Program ) while other programs no longer receive funds from Congress and have been discontinued.

On 7 December 1863, while the new Union tug Chesapeake was preparing for service in the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 17 Confederate agents disguised as passengers seized it off Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

Locke had arranged for Braine and sixteen Confederate sympathisers from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick to board the Chesapeake as normal passengers while in New York.

The Chesapeake was to await adjudication in the colonial Admiralty court, while the Confederate prisoner Wade was to be given to the American authorities for extradition.

James Lawrence died of his wounds on 4 June 1813, while his captors directed the Chesapeake to Halifax, Nova Scotia.

I-64 heads southeast as a continuation of the Hampton Roads Beltway through Chesapeake while I-264 heads east toward Portsmouth and Norfolk.

I-64 heads southeast as a continuation of the Hampton Roads Beltway through Chesapeake while I-264 heads east toward Portsmouth and Norfolk.

His most notable accomplishment was his victory while commanding HMS Shannon, over the USS Chesapeake on 1 June 1813, during the War of 1812.

He lost his first command, the frigate Virginia, while trying to run past the British squadron blockading the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay.

Philip Merrill, a highly experienced sailor, disappeared while sailing alone on the Chesapeake Bay on June 10, 2006.