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    / 36.743694; -76.236694 Chesapeake Arboretum (48 acres) is a non-profit arboretum located at 624 Oak Grove Road, Chesapeake, Virginia. It is open daily...
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    in the Hickory area NALF Fentress Chesapeake Arboretum Chesapeake and Albemarle Canal Dismal Swamp Canal Chesapeake's daily newspaper is The Virginian-Pilot...
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    list of botanical gardens and arboretums in Virginia is intended to include all significant botanical gardens and arboretums in the U.S. state of Virginia...
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    Salisbury University Arboretum, formerly known as the Salisbury State University Arboretum, (50 ha / 125 acres) is an arboretum on the campus of Salisbury...
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    from Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network, the arboretum constructed a rain garden at its native plant nursery in 2010 and 2011. In addition, the arboretum maintains...
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    The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, abbreviated as the C&O Canal and occasionally called the Grand Old Ditch, operated from 1831 until 1924 along the Potomac...
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    The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park is located in the District of Columbia and the state of Maryland. The park was established in 1961...
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    The Chesapeake Bay Program is the regional partnership that directs and conducts the restoration of the Chesapeake Bay in the United States. As a partnership...
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    Elizabeth rivers between Old Point Comfort and Sewell's Point near where the Chesapeake Bay flows into the Atlantic Ocean. It also gave its name to the surrounding...
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    Cylburn Arboretum [pronounced Sill·burn arr·burr·EE·tum] is a city park with arboretum and gardens, located at 4915 Greenspring Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland...
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    sponsored by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, counted 2,097 members in 2011, which included a variety of US schools, botanical gardens, arboretums, zoos, museums...
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    Point Lookout State Park (category Chesapeake Bay)
    Lookout, the southernmost tip of a peninsula formed by the confluence of Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac River in St. Mary's County, Maryland. The state park...
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  • theater, and the Edith J. Carrier Arboretum, a 125-acre urban botanical preserve in Harrisonburg and on campus. The arboretum combines naturalized botanical...
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    eastern flank of the Calvert Peninsula on the west side of Chesapeake Bay from Chesapeake Beach southward to Drum Point. The state park is known for the...
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  • The Chesapeake Gateways and Watertrails Network is a partnership program of the National Park Service and a system of over 150 parks, refuges, museums...
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  • hardiness zone system were undertaken by two researchers at the Arnold Arboretum in Boston; the first was published in 1927 by Alfred Rehder, and the second...
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    Captain John Smith Chesapeake Potomac Heritage Star-Spangled Banner Other protected areas Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine...
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    plantation". KOAT. Retrieved November 20, 2020. "Jesuit Properties". Chesapeake Conservancy. January 28, 2009. Retrieved November 6, 2017. "Military Ordnance...
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  • in 2017. The Virginia Wesleyan University campus is also home to the Chesapeake Bay Academy, an educational institution that educates and guides students...
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    Captain John Smith Chesapeake Potomac Heritage Star-Spangled Banner Other protected areas Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine...
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  • The Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail is a series of water routes in the United States extending approximately 3,000 miles (4,800 km)...
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    poles and cables. In 2017, it was decided on the advice of the National Arboretum to cut down and remove the magnolia because the trunk was in an extremely...
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    National battlefields Antietam Monocacy National historical parks Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National historic sites...
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  • National battlefields Antietam Monocacy National historical parks Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National historic sites...
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    2014. "The State of Chesapeake Forests" (PDF). The Conservation Fund. 2006. Retrieved November 27, 2013. Just west of the Chesapeake Bay watershed, in Maryland's...
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    Point State Park is a public recreation area on Chesapeake Bay, located at the western end of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge in Anne Arundel County, Maryland....
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    successfully defended Baltimore Harbor from an attack by the British navy from Chesapeake Bay on September 13–14, 1814. The fort was built in 1798 and was used...
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    division of Lynchburg Parks and Recreation. Old City Cemetery Museums & Arboretum: The most visited historic site in the City of Lynchburg. Established...
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    National battlefields Antietam Monocacy National historical parks Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National historic sites...
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    Norfolk, Virginia (category Virginia counties on the Chesapeake Bay)
    third-most populous city in Virginia after neighboring Virginia Beach and Chesapeake, and the 96th-most populous city in the nation. Norfolk holds a strategic...
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