chesapeake bay

     

In 2000 Virginia & Maryland reached an agreement to stop pollution & increase the blue crab population in this bay

Trivia about chesapeake bay

  • When Midshipmen from Annapolis sit on the dock of the bay, it's usually this one that divides Maryland in two
  • The Potomac & Patuxent Rivers flow into this bay
  • This Maryland-Virginia bay varies between 4 & 40 miles in width
  • In Virginia Cape Charles & Cape Henry mark the northern & southern sides of the entrances to this bay
  • The Potomac
  • The James, Potomac & Chester Rivers all flow into this bay
  • Rivers flowing into this bay include the Susquehanna, James, & Rappahannock
  • The lower valley of the Susquehanna & its tributaries have created this large Atlantic bay
  • Possibly meaning "great salt water" or "on the big bay", it's the big bay that divides Maryland
  • Virginia's Rappahannock River flows into this bay
  • The Baltimore clippers of the late 18th & early 19th centuries were first built at shipyards on this bay
  • The 288-year-old town of Easton, Maryland sits on the eastern shore of this bay
  • Maryland's eastern shore is separated from the main part of the state by this bay
  • Maryland's Severn River is an inlet of it
  • The origins of this retriever go back to 2 puppies rescued from an 1807 shipwreck off the coast of Maryland
  • What's officially the Lucius J. Kellam, Jr. Bridge-Tunnel travels more than a mile under this east Virginia bay
  • Baltimore reporter John Sherman won a Peabody for investigating pollution in this bay
  • William & Mary's marine science school has an Estuarine Research Reserve on this biggest U.S. estuary
  • H.L. Mencken called this bay "an immense protein factory"