Designated as the first national water trail, the Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail follows the historic routes of the English explorer’s voyages between 1607 and 1609 on the ...

maps, chron., appends ... The War of 1812 in the Chesapeake is essentially an historical dictionary of conflict as it affected the Chesapeake Bay area. The book is divided into five chapters. The ...

Reminders of its heydays are everywhere, as historic homes line ... Smith made several expeditions to map the expansive coastal estuary known as Chesapeake Bay. Onancock was a great deep-water ...