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  2. Delmarva Peninsula - Wikipedia

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    At various times in history, residents of the Delmarva Peninsula have proposed that its Maryland and Virginia portions secede from their respective states, merging with Kent County and Sussex County, Delaware, to create the state of Delmarva. A Delmarva State Party with this aim was founded in 1992. [9]

  3. Eastern Shore of Maryland - Wikipedia

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    The coastal plain includes the Delmarva Peninsula and hence the Eastern Shore of Maryland. The geology of Delmarva is an inseparable part of the Eastern Shore, which has few rocky outcrops south of Kent County. The Chesapeake and Delaware Canal crosses from Back Creek on the Elk River to Port Penn, Delaware. While it was a shallow canal with ...

  4. Eastern Shore of Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Geographically removed from the rest of Virginia, it has had a unique history of settlement and development influenced by agriculture, fishing, tourism, and the Pennsylvania Railroad. William G. Thomas describes the Eastern Shore during the late 19th and early 20th century as "a highly complex and interdependent landscape". He continues:

  5. How chicken, that 'great and glorious institution,' came to ...

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    As early colonists spread across the Delmarva Peninsula, chickens went with them. And here's how they came to rule the roost. How chicken, that 'great and glorious institution,' came to rule the ...

  6. Assateague people - Wikipedia

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    The Assateague (meaning: "swifly moving water") [1] were an Algonquian people speaking the Nanticoke language who historically lived on the Atlantic coast side of the Delmarva Peninsula (known during the colonial period as the Eastern Shores of Maryland and Virginia, and the Lower Counties of Pennsylvania).

  7. Chesapeake Bay impact crater - Wikipedia

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    The Chesapeake Bay impact crater is a buried impact crater, located beneath the mouth of Chesapeake Bay, United States.It was formed by a bolide that struck the eastern shore of North America about 35.5 ± 0.3 million years ago, in the late Eocene epoch.

  8. Barratt's Chapel - Wikipedia

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    The Barratt's Chapel Museum features original furniture, religious books and artifacts about the history of Methodism on the Delmarva Peninsula. There is also a video about the history of Barratt's. Guests can tour the original chapel and a reconstructed 18th century vestry. The chapel and museum are open on Saturdays and Sundays.

  9. Delaware Railroad - Wikipedia

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    The railroad was conceived in 1836 by John M. Clayton, a former United States senator who obtained a charter from the Delaware General Assembly to serve the Delmarva Peninsula. He was concerned that a proposal in Maryland to build a line along the western side of the peninsula would harm Delaware's economy. Delaware was highly motivated and ...