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8 unusual facts about Chesapeake


Great Bridge Bridge

It was constructed in 2004 by the Army Corps of Engineers and operated by the City of Chesapeake.

The Great Bridge Bridge is a double rolling bascule drawbridge that carries Battlefield Blvd. and spans the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway in Chesapeake, Virginia.

Helen Dragas

In 2007 the Dragas Companies donated $1.5 million to the cities of Virginia Beach, Norfolk and Chesapeake for their use in developing sustainable solutions to the issue of family homelessness and improving educational outcomes for children in poverty.

Law Enforcement Detachments

In the 1990s, the individual LEDETs were consolidated under three Tactical Law Enforcement Teams (TACELTs): Tactical Law Enforcement Team North (TACLET North) based in Chesapeake, Virginia, Tactical Law Enforcement Team Gulf (TACLET Gulf) based in New Orleans, Louisiana, Tactical Law Enforcement Team South (TACLET South), based in Opa-locka, Florida, and the Pacific Area Tactical Law Enforcement Team (PACTACLET) based in San Diego, California.

Mac Brunson

Thereafter, he became pastor of South Norfolk Baptist Church in Chesapeake, Virginia, and then Green Street Baptist Church in High Point, North Carolina.

Matt Van Oekel

James Matthew "Matt" Van Oekel (born September 20, 1986 in Chesapeake, Virginia) is an American soccer player currently playing for Minnesota United FC in the North American Soccer League.

Rodolfo Luat

He also placed runner-up in the 2006 US Open held at Chesapeake, Virginia, losing to John Schmidt, 11-6, but winning US$15,000 in the process.

Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad

A portion of the line in the cities of Suffolk and western Chesapeake has been included in studies by the Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation of the feasibility of Richmond-South Hampton Roads High Speed Passenger Rail service.


Ajacan

Some early 20th-century historians promoted the idea that the early Spanish explorers who made voyages into the Chesapeake Bay between 1565 and 1570 sailed up the Potomac River as far as Occoquan, Virginia, based on the similarity between "Axacan" of the Spanish missionary chronicles and the name of the Indian town and creek on the Potomac.

In 1499, Amerigo Vespucci for the Spanish Crown spent thirty-seven days repairing their ships at the Chesapeake Bay.

Barrier island

William John McGee reasoned in 1890 that the East and Gulf coasts of the United States were undergoing submergence, as evidenced by the many drowned river valleys that occur along these coasts, including Raritan, Delaware and Chesapeake Bays.

Bay Coast Railroad

The railroad's co-founder, coal magnate William Lawrence Scott, financed construction of the new town of Cape Charles in 1884 at the point where the railroad's northern section met the Chesapeake Bay.

Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant

Scientists at Johns Hopkins University became concerned that the discharge of heated cooling water from the plant would be detrimental to a crucial element of the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem, the bay's famed blue crabs.

Canada in the American Civil War

On 17 December, the recently captured blockade runner Ella and Annie — which had been hastily manned, armed and sent to sea — finally caught up with the Chesapeake at Sambro, Nova Scotia.

Cannon and Ball

The latest incarnation of the show featured Cannon and Ball in the starring roles, supported by Allo Allo’s Sue Hodge as Lady Chesapeake and newcomer Emily Trebicki as secretary Miss Spencer.

Capture of USS Chesapeake

A large cask of un-slaked lime was found open on Chesapeake's forecastle, and another bag of lime was discovered in the fore-top.

Some of the timbers of the Chesapeake were used in the construction of the Chesapeake Mill in Wickham, Hampshire.

Charles Carroll of Annapolis

The royal government that took over the Colony, after moving the founding capital from the Catholic stronghold of St. Mary's City on the shores of the Potomac and Chesapeake in southern Maryland to the more central and re-named Annapolis near Kent Island in 1694; banned Catholics from holding office, bearing arms, serving on juries, and eventually from voting.

Chesapeake Bay

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

Chesapeake Beach Rail Trail

Plans are underway to develop this portion of the trail and connect it to residential communities within the vicinity, providing off-road access to the towns of Chesapeake Beach and North Beach and their in-town boardwalks and trails.

Chesapeake Beach, Maryland

Chesapeake Beach was established as a resort community at the end of the Chesapeake Beach Railway, a short line railroad from Washington, DC.

Chesapeake College

Katrina- When a category 5 hurricane, named Katrina, swept through the Gulf coast August 2005 causing mass destruction and casualties, Chesapeake College came together as a community and organized a variety of relief efforts.

Chesapeake Energy

On July 22, 2011, Chesapeake Energy agreed to a twelve-year naming rights partnership with the Oklahoma City Thunder to rename their arena Chesapeake Energy Arena.

Chesapeake Films

Chesapeake Films is a film company founded by Richard Chizmar and Johnathon Schaech.

Chesapeake House

Starting in October 2012, the existing Chesapeake House restaurants will be replaced with Dunkin' Donuts, Wendy's, Earl of Sandwich, KFC, Cinnabon, Freshens, and Nathan's Famous until the Maryland House is reconstructed.

Chesapeake–Leopard Affair

In the spring of 1807, during the Napoleonic Wars, a number of British naval vessels were on duty on the North American Station, blockading two French third-rate warships in Chesapeake Bay.

Croaker, Virginia

The name "Croaker" is believed to have derived from the abundant quantity of Atlantic croaker (Micropogonias undulatus), an inshore, bottom-dwelling fish found in the Chesapeake Bay at the mouth of the York River.

Don't Give Up the Ship!

The name comes from the dying words of James Lawrence to the crew of his USS Chesapeake, later stitched into an ensign created by Purser Samuel Hambleton and raised by Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry in the Battle of Lake Erie, during the War of 1812.

Epes Randolph

Railroads he worked for included the Alabama Great Southern Railroad, the Chesapeake, Ohio & Southwestern, and the Kentucky Central.

Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge

It is located in parts of the independent cities of Chesapeake and Suffolk in Virginia, and the counties of Camden, Gates, and Pasquotank in North Carolina.

Greenbury

Greenbury Point Light, the name of two lighthouses in Chesapeake Bay, United States

Huntington Airport

Lawrence County Airpark in Chesapeake, Ohio, serving Huntington, West Virginia, United States (FAA: HTW)

Ian Gallanar

He has directed a number of productions with the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company including Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, Coriolanus, Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Lysistrata, The Front Page, As You Like It, Cyrano de Bergerac, Twelfth Night and many others.

Ironton Tanks

Other Tanks taught or coached at Hanging Rock, Pedro, Blackfork, South Point, Chesapeake, Coal Grove, Proctorville, Rome and Raceland.

Maryland Route 700

The four-lane divided highway continues south as Chesapeake Park Place, which leads into Lockheed Martin's Middle River Complex, a facility of the company's Mission Systems & Sensors business segment.

Oriole Four

All were members of the Chorus of the Chesapeake in Dundalk, Maryland, and three weeks after their first rehearsal they won the Dundalk Open and later the Chesapeake Bay Open.

Oyster buy-boat

A few of them were adapted for use in the Chesapeake Bay Menhaden fishery during the 1970s and 80s but have since been retired, and some were used to haul seed oysters to replenish oyster reefs in Virginia and Maryland into the early 2000s.

This was due to vast improvements to transportation infrastructure in the region during the 1950s when most water-borne commerce moved to highways, and the rapid decline of the Chesapeake Bay oyster industry due to decades of over-harvesting and oyster diseases Haplosporidium nelsoni (MSX) and dermo that decimated the bay's oyster population.

Rock Hall, Maryland

Maryland blue crabs, oysters, rockfish and more, although less plentiful today, have comprised the bountiful seasonal harvests of the Upper Chesapeake Bay.

Silence! The Musical

Dr. Frederick Chilton (high baritone) – The pompous, incompetent director of the Chesapeake State Hospital for the Criminally Insane and later Baltimore Hospital for the Criminally Insane.

Torslandaverken

Torslanda production was supported by operations in Canada at Volvo Halifax Assembly and Volvo Kalmar Assembly and later with plants in North America (Chesapeake, Virginia), and later Ghent, Belgium.

Virginia State Route 194

The state highway passes through the Elmhurst neighborhood to a six-way intersection with Norview Avenue and Chesapeake Boulevard.

Wicomico

Wicomico River, the name of several rivers tributary to the Chesapeake Bay watershed

Wicomico River

Little Wicomico River, a tributary of Chesapeake Bay in eastern Virginia

Great Wicomico River, a tributary of Chesapeake Bay in eastern Virginia

Yorktown campaign

#General Rochambeau and Chevalier Luzerne both urged de Grasse to decide on the Chesapeake.


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