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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...
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  • Kent Island is an island situated in the Chesapeake Bay in the U.S. state of Maryland. Kent Island may also refer to: Kent Island (California) in Marin...
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    Kent Narrows is a census-designated place and town in Queen Anne's County, Maryland, United States. As of the 2020 census, the town had a population of...
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    Kent County is a county located in the U.S. state of Maryland. As of the 2020 census, its population was 19,198, making it the least populous county in...
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    Chester is a census-designated place on Kent Island in Queen Anne's County, Maryland, United States. The population was 3,723 at the 2000 census. Chester...
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    Stevensville is a census-designated place (CDP) in Queen Anne's County, Maryland, United States, and is the county's most populous place among both CDPs...
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    north to MD 18 in Stevensville. MD 8 is the main north–south highway of Kent Island in western Queen Anne's County. The state highway is also the first highway...
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    2013-03-09. "Kent Island: Third Oldest US Settlement - 2002-02-19". Voice of America. Retrieved 2023-08-13. "Kent Fort Manor - Kent Island Maryland". Archived...
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    settlement at Kent Island, Maryland, by Lord Baltimore upon the formation of Maryland. Claiborne had named the island for his birthplace in Kent, England....
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    trip. A 1938 proposal by the Maryland General Assembly was the first to call for a bridge at the Sandy Point–Kent Island location. Although the legislation...
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    Virginia and points south. The Eastern Shore of Maryland comprises Caroline, Cecil, Dorchester, Kent, Queen Anne's, Somerset, Talbot, Wicomico, and Worcester...
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    Kent Island High School (KIHS) is a public high school in Stevensville, Maryland, United States that first opened in 1998 to accommodate the growing population...
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    Chestertown is a town in Kent County, Maryland, United States. The population was 5,532 as of the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Kent County. Founded in...
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  • Bay and also separates Kent Island from the Delmarva Peninsula. It runs through the community of Kent Narrows, Maryland. The Kent Narrows was originally...
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    PRS Guitars (category Kent Island, Maryland)
    Virginia Avenue building to a new facility in the Chesapeake Bay on Kent Island. This new manufacturing facility provided the company with 20,000 square...
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  • Matapeake people (category Kent Island, Maryland)
    in Maryland. In the 1600s, the tribe only had around 100 members living on Kent Island. Their chief village was on the southeast side of the island. English...
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  • Broad Creek was a town on western Kent Island, Maryland that existed from the 17th century to the 19th century. The town once served as the eastern terminus...
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    William Claiborne (category People from colonial Maryland)
    colonists of Virginia and the later settling of Maryland, partly because of his earlier trading post on Kent Island in the mid-way of the Chesapeake Bay, which...
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    Elbert N. Carvel (category People from Shelter Island, New York)
    Carvel was born at Shelter Island, Long Island, New York, son of Arnold W. and Elizabeth Nostrand Carvel. Kent Island, Maryland was his childhood home. He...
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    also known as Solomons Island, is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Calvert County, Maryland, United States. The population...
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    Betterton is a town in Kent County, Maryland, United States. The population was 345 at the 2010 census. Betterton is located at the mouth of the Sassafras...
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    the county's history. The first Anglo-European settlement in Maryland was on Kent Island on August 21, 1631, and included twenty-five settlers in a manor...
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  • unincorporated community in Queen Anne's County, Maryland, United States. Normans is located near Maryland Route 8, 3.4 miles (5.5 km) southwest of Stevensville...
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    1961.03040130039009. "Venomous caterpillar 'no one has heard of' sends New Kent woman to ER". 11 September 2020. Eagleman, David M. (2007). "Envenomation...
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    Stoopley Gibson Manor (category Kent Island, Maryland)
    brick manor home along the Chester River on the north shore of Kent Island in Maryland. The original 150 acres (61 ha) land patent was first issued to...
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  • The Kent Island Bay Times and Record-Observer is a weekly newspaper that covers Queen Anne's County, Maryland. The paper formed in 2020 through the merger...
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  • living museum located south of the village of Chester on Kent Island, Queen Anne's County, Maryland. It served as a general store, lumber mill, cooper's mill...
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  • Algonquian word for "circling of the water." William Claiborne, who founded Kent Island, also had a plantation in Virginia named Romancoke. Romancoke was once...
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  • The County of Kent Kent County, Delaware Kent County, Maryland Kent County, Michigan Kent County, Rhode Island Kent County, Texas New Kent County, Virginia...
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    Bay Bridge Airport (category Kent Island, Maryland)
    LID: W29) is a county-owned public-use airport located in Stevensville, Maryland. The airport is named for the nearby Chesapeake Bay Bridge and is mostly...
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