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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The Chesapeake Ranch Estates ( CRE ), also known locally as the Ranch Club, is located in Lusby, Maryland, in southern Calvert County.

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.

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* Chesapeake Ranch Estates / Drum Point Maryland

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

The Chesapeake Bay Bridge crosses the bay in Maryland from Sandy Point ( near Annapolis ) to Kent Island ; and the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel in Virginia connects Virginia Beach to Cape Charles.

In the 1632 Charter of Maryland, King Charles I of England granted " all that Part of the Peninsula, or Chersonese, lying in the Parts of America, between the Ocean on the East and the Bay of Chesapeake on the West, divided from the Residue thereof by a Right Line drawn from the Promontory, or Head-Land, called Watkin's Point, situate upon the Bay aforesaid, near the river Wigloo, on the West, unto the main Ocean on the East ; and between that Boundary on the South, unto that Part of the Bay of Delaware on the North, which lieth under the Fortieth Degree of North Latitude from the Equinoctial, where New England is terminated " to Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore as the colony of Maryland.

Later surveys authorized by Baltimore on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake indicated that the southern boundary would continue across the peninsula at the mouth of the Pocomoke River marked on the north shore by a rock outcropping labelled as " Watkins ' Point ".

It is located at Gloucester Point along what would be the county's beach, taking samples and measurements for the Chesapeake Bay, and putting specimens on display.

Virginia Beach has many distinctive communities and neighborhoods within its boundaries, including: Acredale, Alanton, Aragona Village, Arrowhead, Bay Colony, Bayside, Blackwater, Brigadoon, Brighton on the Bay, Buckner Farms, Carolanne Farm, Castleton, Chesapeake Beach, College Park, Croatan Beach, Glenwood, Great Neck, Green Run, Greenwich, Heritage Park, Hilltop, Indian Lakes, Indian River Plantation, Kempsville, Kings Grant, Lago Mar, Landstown, Little Neck, London Bridge, Lynnhaven, Magic Hollow, Middle Plantation, Munden, the North End, Oceana, Ocean Lakes, Ocean Park, Oceanfront, Old Beach, Pembroke Manor, Pembroke Meadows, Pembroke Shores, Pine Meadows, Princess Anne, Pungo, Redwing, Salem, Sandbridge, Seatack, Thalia, Strawbridge, Thalia Shores, Thoroughgood, Windsor Woods, and Witchduck Point.

Sandy Point State Park is approximately two or three miles ( 5 km ) east of Arnold proper and includes a beach on the Chesapeake Bay in proximity to the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and the Sandy Point Lighthouse.

Elevations range from sea level on the shore of the Chesapeake Bay to approximately above sea level along the northern reaches of Dundalk Avenue and North Point Boulevard.

There is a public golf course, Chesapeake Hills Golf Course near Cove Point Park.

Places of note in the Lusby area include the Cove Point Lighthouse on the Chesapeake Bay and Calvert Cliffs State Park.

Board Chairman Howard Simpson of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co., testified the B & O was in its worst financial condition since the depression years and badly needed the economic lift it would get from consolidation with the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad.

The most significant incident from this war which occurred in the Maritimes was the British capture and detention of the American frigate USS Chesapeake in Halifax.

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.

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

Perhaps the most dramatic moment in the war for Nova Scotia was when HMS Shannon escorted the captured American frigate USS Chesapeake into Halifax Harbour ( 1813 ).

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

In February 1784, the North Carolina was frozen in Chesapeake Bay.

The most famous episode was a series of British raids on the shores of Chesapeake Bay, including an attack on Washington that resulted in the British burning of the White House, the Capitol, the Navy Yard, and other public buildings, in the " Burning of Washington " in 1814.

The Battle of the Chesapeake, also known as the Battle of the Virginia Capes or simply the Battle of the Capes, was a crucial naval battle in the American War of Independence that took place near the mouth of Chesapeake Bay on 5 September 1781, between a British fleet led by Rear Admiral Sir Thomas Graves and a French fleet led by Rear Admiral François Joseph Paul, comte de Grasse.

He immediately dispatched his response, which was that he would make for the Chesapeake.

News of de Barras ' departure led the British to realize that the Chesapeake was the probable target of the French fleets.

Graves ordered the Terrible to be scuttled on 11 September due to her leaky condition, and was notified on 13 September that the French fleet was back in the Chesapeake ; he still did not learn that de Grasse's line had not included the fleet of de Barras, because the frigate captain making the report had not counted the ships.

It was not until 23 September that Graves and Clinton learned that the French fleet in the Chesapeake numbered 36 ships.

Before this the main stay of the infant colony's economy was the growth export of tobacco, but tobacco prices eventually fell in the 1630s as Chesapeake production expanded.

This was the established church of the Chesapeake Bay colonies.

And there was a croquet court, where a Gibson Girl might be seen playing against a gentleman with a wonderful mustache ... It was quite the thing to elope by the old Chesapeake and Ohio canal boat, be married at the Ferry by the tolltaker, who was a retired parson, and honeymoon at Hilltop House.

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.

The Chesapeake Bay is the ria, or drowned valley, of the Susquehanna, meaning that it was where the river flowed when the sea level was lower.

Many scholars doubt the assertion that it was as far north as the Chesapeake ; most place it in present-day Georgia's Sapelo Island.