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Kent Island is the largest island in the Chesapeake Bay and a historic place in Maryland.To the east, a narrow channel known as the Kent Narrows barely separates the island from the Delmarva Peninsula, and on the other side, the island is separated from Sandy Point, an area near Annapolis, by roughly four miles (6.4 km) of water.
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The A.E. Phillips packing plant processed seafood from many of the watermen in the region. In 1956, after a surplus season of crabs, son Brice Phillips and wife Shirley opened the first “crab shack” in Ocean City, Maryland. Brice and Shirley began building a new dining room each year at Phillips Crab House until it finally seated 1400 people.
Kent Narrows is located at [ 3 ] According to the United States Census Bureau , the CDP has a total area of 2.6 square miles (6.7 km 2 ), of which 1.0 square mile (2.6 km 2 ) is land and 1.6 square miles (4.1 km 2 ) (62.16%) is water.
Several bridges, both part of roads and the Queen Anne's Railroad, have crossed the Kent Narrows in the past.Currently, two road bridges cross the Kent Narrows. The R. Clayton Mitchell Jr. Bridge, [2] formerly known as the Kent Narrows Bridge, is part of US 50/US 301 and was built during the early 1990s as part of upgrades to US 50/US 301 on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
Matapeake is an unincorporated community located south of Stevensville on Kent Island, Maryland, United States. It is named for the historic Matapeake tribe, who lived there at the time of English colonization in 1631. Their chief village was on the southeast side of the island. [1]
Kent County, Maryland, is one of the few counties in the United States to border its namesake in another state—in this case, Kent County, Delaware. In 1790, Kent County contained the centre of population of the United States, according to the US Census Bureau. It is on the edge of a cornfield at 39.16.30 N 76.11.12 W.