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Today the remaining active railroad tracks on the Eastern Shore are operated by short-line railroads Delmarva Central Railroad and the Maryland and Delaware Railroad. Commercial east–west ties between Delaware towns and Maryland towns were culturally significant in Colonial and Early American periods despite the border line, which largely cut ...
The following is a list of some of the notable cities and towns on the peninsula. Cambridge, Maryland, is the county seat of Dorchester County and a busy port on the Choptank River. Centreville, Maryland, is the county seat of Queen Anne's County. Chestertown, Maryland, is the county seat of Kent County, MD and the home of Washington College.
Assateague Island is a 37-mile (60 km) long barrier island located off the eastern coast of the Delmarva Peninsula facing the Atlantic Ocean. [1] The northern two-thirds of the island are in Maryland, and the southern third is in Virginia. The Maryland section contains the majority of Assateague Island National Seashore and Assateague State Park.
Painted relief map of the Tidewater region on the east coast of the United States in darkest green to one shade lighter green to the west. "Tidewater" is a term for the north Atlantic Plain region of the United States. It is located east of the Atlantic Seaboard Fall Line and north of the Deep South.
Traveling by automobile from major Maryland cities such as Annapolis or Baltimore, the most direct route to Easton involves crossing the bay using the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and traveling east and south on U.S. Route 50. [12] The town is small to medium-sized, with a population of about 17,000 using the 2020 United States census. [18]
Maryland (US: / ˈ m ɛr ɪ l ə n d / ⓘ MERR-il-ənd) [b] is a state in the Northern,Mid-Atlantic or South region of the United States. [9] [10] It borders the states of Virginia to its south, West Virginia to its west, Pennsylvania to its north, Delaware and the Atlantic Ocean to its east, and the national capital and federal district of Washington, D.C. to the southwest.
Today, most people who live on Hoopers Island have some connection to the fishing industry. The local families make a living as crabbers, oyster tongers and seafood packers. [12] Seasonal workers from Mexico also work in the processing plants. [16] Unfortunately, because of many factors such as water pollution, the fishing industry is on the ...
Ocean City, [oʊʃɪn sɪtiː] officially the Town of Ocean City, is an Atlantic resort town in Worcester County, Maryland, along the East Coast of the United States.The population was 6,844 at the 2020 U.S. census, although during summer weekends the city hosts between 320,000 and 345,000 vacationers and up to eight million visitors annually.