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3 unusual facts about Eastern Shore


Paula Miller

She ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination for the special election to fill the seat being vacated by Ralph Northam, who was elected Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, in the Virginia Senate, District 6, representing portions of Norfolk, the Eastern Shore, and Virginia Beach.

Rose Bay High School

In 1960 a deputation from the Clarence High School P & F Association strongly emphasised the urgent need for immediate action in the provision of additional high school accommodation on the Eastern Shore.

University of Delaware Press

The University of Delaware Press publishes books in all scholarly fields, but its strengths are in literary studies, eighteenth century studies, French literature, history, the history of art, and studies of Delaware and the Eastern Shore.


Astrachan Gunst Thomas Rubin

With its principal office in Baltimore, Maryland and satellite office in historic Chestertown, Maryland, located on Maryland's rural Eastern Shore, AGTR is a big city law firm with small town appeal.

Mary Roe Walkup

Walkup is also a member of the Kent Chapter of the American Red Cross, Kent County Farm Bureau, the Chester River Association, the Eastern Shore Land Conservancy, and the Maryland Conservation Council.

Otis James

From there, James headed east across the Appalachian Mountains to the Eastern Shore, then north to Rhode Island, where he stayed for eight days visiting his maternal grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins.

The Maritimes

The Halifax metropolitan area has come to dominate peninsular Nova Scotia as a retail and service centre, but that province's industries were spread out from the coal and steel industries of industrial Cape Breton and Pictou counties, the mixed farming of the North Shore and Annapolis Valley, and the fishing industry was primarily focused on the South Shore and Eastern Shore.


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Alfsee

From 1976 a holiday park was built on the eastern shore within the parish of Rieste.

Boquerón, Cuba

Boquerón, located in the eastern shore of the bay, is the nearest Cuban settlement to the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base.

British Columbia Highway 93

From the international border crossing at Roosville, the 317 km (197 mi) long Highway 93 parallels the eastern shore of Lake Koocanusa for 36 km (22 mi) to where it meets the Crowsnest Highway at Elko.

Calvin Fowler

He is buried in the Eastern Shore Veterans Cemetery in Hurlock, Maryland.

Carrowmore Lake

Glencullen townlands line its eastern shore and Rathmorgan and the Knocknascollop mountains rise up along its western shores.

Chartres, Falkland Islands

It is on the west coast of West Falkland, at the mouth of Chartres River, at the eastern shore of King George Bay.

Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel District

The Little Creek Ferry operated between the Eastern Shore and Princess Anne County and transported vehicles as part of U.S. Route 13 and the Ocean Highway.

Cossacks in Turkey

As of 1927, there were three Cossack villages in Turkey: Eski Kazaklar (later officially renamed as Kocagöl, the earlier settlement on the southwestern tip of Lake Manyas) and Yeni Kazaklar (founded by a community that left Eski Kazaklar and located on the northern shore of Lake Manyas) in Manyas district of Balıkesir Province, and Kazak (on the eastern shore of Lake Akşehir) in Akşehir district of Konya Province.

Donald H. Tuck

The couple established a home in Lindisfarne, on Hobart's eastern shore, and had a son in 1961.

Eastern Shore District High School

Eastern Shore District High School is a Canadian public school in the Musquodoboit Harbour area east of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.

Eastern Shore Memorial Hospital

Eastern Shore Memorial Hospital was built to serve the easternmost area of coastal Halifax County running from East Ship Harbour to Marie Joseph.

Fort York

In 1793, Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe authorized a garrison on the present site of Fort York, just west of the mouth of Garrison Creek on the north eastern shore of Lake Ontario.

Gotthard railway

What was originally considered the main line continues down the valley of the Ticino, crossing the Italian border and continuing to meet the Italian railway system at Pino on the eastern shore of Lake Maggiore.

Guaíba River

The city of Porto Alegre, which is the capital of Rio Grande do Sul, lies on the eastern shore of the Guaíba River, and the city of Guaíba lies opposite Porto Alegre on the western shore.

Hobart coastal defences

With the outbreak of World War II, the Department of Defence acquired land near South Arm close to the mouth of the Derwent River on the eastern shore, from a Mr. Courtland Calvert and his sister in September, 1939.

John Gunby

Judge J. Harry Covington, address before the Eastern Shore Society of Baltimore City Circa 1939

John Walker Hundley

He began his ministry on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, at Modesttown and Chincoteague.

Jonathan Leo Fairbanks

Some of Fairbanks’ artwork is owned by institutions such as the National Portrait Gallery, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, The Boston Public Library, the Wye House and Myrtle Grove on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, and the Alhambra in southern Spain.

Killiniq

Killiniq, Quebec, a former Inuit reserved land on the eastern shore of Ungava Bay, about 50 kilometres south of Killiniq Island

Maine State Route 3

Route 3 follows the island's eastern shore to the tourist town of Bar Harbor, then continues south through Acadia National Park to the village of Northeast Harbor.

Maryland Route 413

Crisfield grew to prominence as the "Seafood Capital of the World" and became the second largest city in Maryland by 1904 thanks to an extension of the Eastern Shore Railroad to the city in 1866 instigated by the city's namesake, John W. Crisfield.

Michael Mastro

In 2011 they started a journey that began at Mr. Mastro’s sister house in Seattle, went on to Toronto, Canada and according to investigators Focus Ltd. ended in a €5,000 per month house in Veyrier-du-Lac, France, on the eastern shore of Lake Annecy.

Ohrid trout

Salmo aphelios, breeds in May–July near springs of the eastern shore of the lake.

Ölfusá

The Flói Nature Reserve is located on its eastern shore where it meets the sea.

Our Neighborhood Times

Our Neighborhood Times is a bimonthly community newspaper based in Hegewisch, Chicago and distributed throughout the neighborhoods along the eastern shore of Lake Calumet.

Ovidiopol

The town was named after Ovid, the Roman poet, based on the claim of Dimitrie Cantemir in his Descriptio Moldaviae that a local lake near Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi (probably the Dniester Liman itself, on whose eastern shore the town is located) was named in Romanian Lacul Ovidului (Ovid's Lake).

Pennsylvania Route 453

PA 453 heads into wooded areas along the eastern shore of Curwensville Lake and passes near Curwensville Dam before heading into rural developed areas.

Posadas, Misiones

Posadas is the capital city of the Argentine province of Misiones, located at the south of the province, on the left-hand (eastern) shore of the Paraná River, opposite Encarnación, Paraguay.

Rocky Island Historic District

It is composed of the Hadland, Benson, Edwards, Nelson, and Erickson fish camps, which were located on the eastern shore of Rocky Island.

Rooiels

Rooi-Els, Western Cape, a village on the eastern shore of False Bay in the Western Cape, South Africa

Royal Tasmania Regiment

The 12th/40th Battalion, The Royal Tasmania Regiment, is part of 9 Brigade, with Battalion headquarters based at Derwent Barracks, Glenorchy, Alpha Company based in Launceston and Bravo Company at Warrane on Hobart's Eastern Shore.

Saint-Victoret

Saint-Victoret is a small market town situated just next to Marignane, not far from the airport and just a few kilometres from the eastern shore of the Étang de Berre.

Seddinsee

Besides its natural connection to the River Dahme, the Oder-Spree Canal enters the lake on its eastern shore, whilst the Gosen Canal links the lake's northern end to the Dämeritzsee.

Sirius Passet

It comprises six localities located on the eastern shore of J.P. Koch Fjord in the far north of Greenland.

SOCCSKSARGEN

Gumasa Beach in Glan - dubbed as the "Small Boracay in Mindanao" Barangay Gumasa has a six kilometer-long crescent beach on Sarangani's eastern shore and only about an hour's drive from General Santos City.

Tasmania Police

The Tasmania Police Academy is located in the suburb of Rokeby on Hobart's Eastern Shore.

Teslin Lake

On the Yukon portion of the lake there are three Indian Reserves of the Teslin Tlingit Council - Teslin Post Indian Reserve No. 13, Nisutlin Indian Reserve No. 14 and Nisutlin Bay Indian Reserve No. 15, and the community of Teslin, which is located where the Alaska Highway meets the lake, following its northern/eastern shore from there towards Whitehorse.

U.S. Route 98 in Florida

Near Lake Okeechobee, it follows the northern and eastern shore toward Belle Glade.

Ullswater

Just south of Pooley Bridge on the lake's eastern shore is Eusemere, where anti-slavery campaigner Thomas Clarkson (1760–1846) lived; the house gives one of the best views of the lower reach of Ullswater.

USS LST-325

The ship was placed in service with the Military Sea Transportation Service in 1951 as USNS T-LST-325, and took part in "Operation SUNAC" (Support of North Atlantic Construction), venturing into the Labrador Sea, Davis Strait, and Baffin Bay to assist in the building of radar outposts along the eastern shore of Canada and western Greenland.

Walton, Suffolk

Probably built in the third or fourth centuries AD, it formed part of the coastal defences of the eastern shore of Britain, and overlooked the mouth of the River Deben.

WFF

Wallops Flight Facility - a NASA facility located on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, primary use is a rocket launch site to support science and exploration missions for NASA and other federal agencies

William T. Sampson

The former Sampson Naval Training Base, that became the Sampson Air Force Base and is now a New York State Park on the eastern shore of Seneca Lake were named in his honor.

Wisconsin Highway 55

It runs south–north in northeast Wisconsin from a junction with US 151 approximately 1.5 miles north of Brothertown near the eastern shore of Lake Winnebago in Calumet County to the Michigan State line at the Brule River approximately one mile northeast of Nelma in Forest County where it connects to M-73.

YMCA Camp Lawrence

The tents were erected on wooden platforms on the eastern shore of the property, facing across the lake towards the Ossipee Mountains.

Zareth-shahar

It is identified with the ruins of Zara, near the mouth of the Wady Zerka Main, on the eastern shore of the Dead Sea, some 3 miles south of the Callirrhoe, in the territory of the Tribe of Reuben.