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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.
A locator map showing Kent Island in Maryland. David Benbennick made this map. It is a simple modification of Image:Map of Maryland highlighting Queen Anne's County.svg.
Kent Fort was a fort and settlement located near on southern Kent Island in colonial Virginia and later Maryland, and was the first English settlement within the boundaries of present-day Maryland and the fourth oldest permanent English settlement in the United States, after Jamestown, Virginia (1607), Hampton, Virginia (1609–10), and Plymouth, Massachusetts
The Kent Narrows, also known as Kent Island Narrows and to local residents simply as the Narrows, is a waterway that connects the Chester River with the Eastern Bay and also separates Kent Island from the Delmarva Peninsula. It runs through the community of Kent Narrows, Maryland. The Kent Narrows was originally shallow and surrounded by marsh.
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Hand-drawn map of Kent, Sussex, Surrey and Middlesex from 1575. ... Until about 960, the Isle of Thanet was an island, separated by the Wantsum channel, ...
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.
Kent Narrows is a census-designated place and town in Queen Anne's County, Maryland, United States. As of the 2020 census, [2] the town had a population of 612.