Chesapeake is an independent city in Virginia, United States. At the 2020 census, the population was 249,422, making it the second-most populous city...
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With its northern portion in Maryland and the southern part in Virginia, the Chesapeake Bay is a very important feature for the ecology and economy of...
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the Chesapeake Peninsula Chesapeake may also refer to: Chesapeake, Virginia, an independent city Phoebus, Virginia, formerly known as Chesapeake City...
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bridge–tunnel that crosses the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay between Delmarva and Hampton Roads in the U.S. state of Virginia. It opened in 1964, replacing ferries...
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Chesapeake is a town in Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 1,336 at the 2020 census. The town is situated on the Kanawha...
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Bower's Hill is a community located in the independent city of Chesapeake, Virginia (formerly Norfolk County) in the United States. It is located in the...
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The Chesapeake Colonies were the Colony and Dominion of Virginia, later the Commonwealth of Virginia, and Province of Maryland, later Maryland, both colonies...
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Chesapeake, Portsmouth, Norfolk, and Virginia Beach and serves as the most direct link between those cities and the resort beaches along Virginia's Atlantic...
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crater has helped shape the Chesapeake Bay. During the warm late Eocene, sea levels were high, and the tidewater region of Virginia lay in the coastal shallows...
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express passenger trains for the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway such as the George Washington and the Fast Flying Virginian. Retired from active service in...
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The Chesapeake–Leopard affair was a naval engagement off the coast of Norfolk, Virginia, on June 22, 1807, between the British fourth-rate HMS Leopard...
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The Battle of the Chesapeake, also known as the Battle of the Virginia Capes or simply the Battle of the Capes, was a crucial naval battle in the American...
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The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (reporting marks C&O, CO) was a Class I railroad formed in 1869 in Virginia from several smaller Virginia railroads begun...
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the Walmart Supercenter where he worked as a night-supervisor in Chesapeake, Virginia, United States. Bing's suicide note cited concern he was being "led...
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the Virginia Central and oversaw its expansion towards Covington. The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad was formed in 1868 from the merger of the Virginia Central...
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Highway 168 towards the Outer Banks) through the independent cities of Chesapeake and Norfolk where it ends in the Ocean View area near the Hampton Roads...
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in the U.S. Located on the Atlantic Ocean at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, Virginia Beach is a principal city in the Hampton Roads metropolitan area...
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region, for a total of 299 miles (481 km). From the West Virginia state line to Chesapeake, it passes through the major cities of Lexington, Staunton...
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the third-most populous city in Virginia after neighboring Virginia Beach and Chesapeake, and the 96th-most populous city in the nation. Norfolk holds...
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the name city of Chesapeake for the new independent city. Although organized as a city, and one of the larger in Virginia, Chesapeake has both busy suburban...
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Interstate 64 (redirect from Interstate 64 (Missouri–Virginia))
Bowers Hill Interchange with I-264 and I-664 at Bower's Hill in Chesapeake, Virginia. I-64 connects Greater St. Louis, the Louisville metropolitan area...
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Oak Grove (redirect from Oak Grove, West Virginia)
County, Virginia Oak Grove, Northumberland County, Virginia Oak Grove, Loudoun County, Virginia Oak Grove, Chesapeake, Virginia, located in Chesapeake, Virginia...
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Hampton Roads (redirect from Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC MSA)
the Chesapeake Bay flows into the Atlantic Ocean. It also gave its name to the surrounding metropolitan region located in the southeastern Virginia and...
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area of Chesapeake. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010. "Virginia Landmarks...
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C&P Telephone (redirect from Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Virginia)
D.C., Maryland, West Virginia, and Virginia. Today, three of the companies are owned by Verizon Communications: The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone...
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Cam Thomas (basketball) (category Sportspeople from Chesapeake, Virginia)
Thomas began playing basketball for Oscar F. Smith High School in Chesapeake, Virginia. He did not play in his sophomore season because he and his mother...
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Interstate 664 (redirect from Interstate 664 (Virginia))
Interstate Highway in the US state of Virginia. The Interstate runs 20.79 miles (33.46 km) from I-64 and I-264 in Chesapeake north to I-64 in Hampton. I-664...
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Great Dismal Swamp (category Landforms of Chesapeake, Virginia)
North Carolina. It is located in parts of the southern Virginia independent cities of Chesapeake and Suffolk and northern North Carolina counties of Gates...
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were moved from Matthews, a suburb of Charlotte, North Carolina, to Chesapeake, Virginia, located in South Hampton Roads. In June 2014, activist investor...
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currently held every four years to elect the mayor of Chesapeake, Virginia. The 2004 Chesapeake mayoral election was held on May 4, 2004. It saw the reelection...
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