Chesapeake Ranch Estates-Drum Point was a census-designated place in Calvert County, Maryland, for the 2000 United States Census, when it had a population of 11, 503.

For the 2010 census the area was split into the CDPs of Chesapeake Ranch Estates and Drum Point.

Chesapeake Ranch Estates-Drum Point is located at ( 38. 350075 ,-76. 418936 ).

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The population was officially 1, 835 at the 2010 census, although residents of the Chesapeake Ranch Estates-Drum Point community also use the Lusby zip code designation, making Lusby in fact a much larger community.

A large housing development called Chesapeake Ranch Estates is nearby, as well as the tourist resort town of Solomons.

Several new roads have either been built or are in planning stages in order to ease traffic congestion to and from the Chesapeake Ranch Estates-Drum Point communities.

There is also a private air field owned and operated by the Chesapeake Ranch Estates and Drum Point communities.

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CRE was founded in 1958 as is governed by a homeowners ' association, which is officially called the " Property Owner's Association of the Chesapeake Ranch Estates " ( POACRE ).

This matter was the subject of litigation in the case of Hanson vs Calvert County, the case is settled, Calvert County and its co defendant, Property Owners of Chesapeake Ranch Estates won the case.

It was alleged in this case that in 1989 the founders of POACRE illegally co-opted the powers of the developer ( Chesapeake Ranch Club, Inc .) as Declarant of the covenants.

* Chesapeake Ranch Estates-Drum Point

* Chesapeake Ranch Estates / Drum Point Maryland

* Chesapeake – Upperclassmen – Completed 2004, and housing approximately 800 students among its 4 halls ( Blue Ridge, Sandbridge ( formerly named Shenandoah ), Piedmont, Tidewater ) in suite-style apartments for four people which vary in combining single and double bedrooms, all which share a common bathroom.

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

In the Chesapeake Bay, researchers found large temperature excursions ( changes from the mean temperature of that time ) during the Medieval Warm Period ( about 950 – 1250 ) and the Little Ice Age ( about 1400 – 1700, with cold periods persisting into the early 20th century ), possibly related to changes in the strength of North Atlantic thermohaline circulation.

* Mystery ( log canoe ), a Chesapeake Bay log canoe

The bay's geology, its present form, and its very location were created by a bolide impact event at the end of the Eocene ( about 35. 5 million years ago ), forming the Chesapeake Bay impact crater and the Susquehanna River valley much later.

Including all offshore islands ( the largest of which is Kent Island in Maryland ), the total land area south of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal is.

While sunken ships from the Spanish Main ( such as Nuestra Señora de Atocha in the Florida Keys ) are the most commonly thought of type of treasure salvage, other types of ships including German submarines from World War II which can hold valuable historical artifacts, American Civil War ships ( the USS Maple Leaf in the St. Johns River, and the CSS Virginia in Chesapeake Bay ), and sunken merchant ships ( the SS Central America off Cape Hatteras ) have all been the subject of treasure salvage awards.

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!

* Chesapeake ( tribe ), a Native American tribe

* United States lightship Chesapeake ( LV-116 ), a lightvessel

* USS Chesapeake ( 1799 ), an American frigate captured by HMS Shannon in 1813

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

* USS Chesapeake ( 1898 ), a training ship renamed USS Severn on 15 June 1905

* USS Chesapeake ( ID-3395 ), a freighter

* HMS Chesapeake ( 1855 ), a Royal Navy frigate

* Chesapeake ( band ), a folk-rock / progressive bluegrass band from Maryland

* Chesapeake ( novel ), a novel published in 1978 by James Michener

* Chesapeake ( album ), the third full-length album by Rachael Yamagata

Thomas V. Mike Miller, Jr., the current president of the Maryland Senate ( as of April 2008 ), lives in Chesapeake Beach.

The town was originally named by Bohemian colonist Augustine Herman the Village of Bohemia ( or Bohemia Manor ), but the name was changed in 1839 when the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal was built.

Passenger service was finally operated on the branch line following a decision of the United States Supreme Court in Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company v. Public Service Commission of State of West Virginia, 242 U. S. 603 ( 1917 ), and continued until sometime in the 1930s.

In late July 1777, after a distressing 34-day journey from Sandy Hook on the coast of New Jersey, a Royal Navy fleet of more than 260 ships carrying some 17, 000 British troops under the command of British General Sir William Howe landed at the head of the Elk River, on the northern end of the Chesapeake Bay near present-day Elkton, Maryland ( then known as Head of Elk ), approximately 40 – 50 miles ( 60 – 80 km ) southwest of Philadelphia.

Perhaps as many as 100 spider-like, cottage-type ( 1½-story wooden dwelling ) screwpile lighthouses were built throughout the Carolina sounds, Chesapeake Bay, Delaware Bay, along the Gulf of Mexico, at least two in Long Island Sound and one even at Maumee Bay ( 1855 ), Lake Erie, Ohio.

The ships had to be sunk in at least 100 fathoms of water ( so as not to become navigational hazards ), and the Navy chose an area off the mouth of Chesapeake Bay rather than either of two possible closer areas, minimizing the effective time the Army's bombers would have in the target area.

* SS Chesapeake ( AOT-5084 ), a transport tanker in service from 2000 to 2009