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    The Choptank River is a major tributary of the Chesapeake Bay and the largest river on the Delmarva Peninsula. Running for 71 miles (114 km), it rises...
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  • Maryland on the Delmarva Peninsula. They occupied an area along the lower Choptank River basin, which included parts of present-day Talbot, Dorchester and Caroline...
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    Fishing Pier State Park (formerly the Choptank River Fishing Pier) is a public recreation area on the Choptank River in Trappe, Maryland. The state park...
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  • century. It is located on the tidal Choptank River, which flows into Chesapeake Bay. Tradition has it that the name "choptank" was a crude Anglicisation of...
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  • Creek Choptank River Harris Creek Broad Creek Tred Avon River Town Creek Warwick River Tuckahoe Creek Miles River Front River Wye River Wye East River Chester...
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    the Pamunkey and Mattaponi tributary rivers), the Patuxent River, and the Choptank River. The entire Chesapeake Bay watershed includes portions of six...
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  • Delaware Choptank Electric Cooperative, a not-for-profit energy organization Choptank River, a tributary of Chesapeake Bay Choptank River Fishing Pier...
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    Malkus Bridge, also known as the Choptank River Bridge, is a four-lane none-span beam bridge across the Choptank River in Maryland. Built in 1987 to replace...
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    time of English colonization, the Algonquian-speaking Choptank Indians resided along the river bearing their name. Throughout the colonial years, English...
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  • The Little Choptank River is a tidal river in Dorchester County in the U.S. state of Maryland. The river rises at the confluence of Lee Creek and Gary...
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  • Creek Broadkill River Choptank River Christina River Delaware River Hershey Run Indian River Leipsic River Lingo Creek Little River Marshyhope Creek Mill...
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    along the adjacent Choptank river. Shipyards along the river serviced smaller sail and steamships plying their trade on the river, with most traffic flowing...
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    Avon River (a corruption of "Third Haven River") is a main tributary of the Choptank River in Talbot County on Maryland's Eastern Shore. The river is 17...
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    6 km) tributary of the Choptank River on Maryland's Eastern Shore. It is sometimes (erroneously) referred to as the Tuckahoe River. Upstream of Hillsboro...
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    The Choptank River Light was a screw-pile lighthouse located near Oxford, Maryland. In its second incarnation it was the only such light moved from another...
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    US 213 was rerouted to use the Emerson C. Harrington Bridge over the Choptank River in Cambridge in 1939; the former alignment between Vienna and Easton...
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    Rappahannock River York River Patuxent River Choptank River For more information on Chesapeake Bay rivers, see the List of Chesapeake Bay rivers. The Chesapeake...
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    before it comes to the Choptank River. Here, the route intersects Marina Drive (MD 954A), which provides access to a marina on the river to the west of the...
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    Greensboro is a town located on the banks of the Choptank River in Caroline County, Maryland, United States. The population was 1,931 at the 2010 United...
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    the largest county by total area in Maryland. It is bordered by the Choptank River to the north, Talbot County to the northwest, Caroline County to the...
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    took a common route for people fleeing slavery – northeast along the Choptank River, through Delaware, and then north into Pennsylvania. A journey of nearly...
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  • tributary of Little Choptank River along the Chesapeake Bay Eastern Shore Fishing Creek (Monocacy River), in the watershed of the Potomac River Fishing Creek...
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    because enslaved people living on the Eastern shore of Maryland near the Choptank River received the bare minimum in food from their enslavers, they fished...
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    Fowling Creek, named after a stream nearby that is a tributary of the Choptank River. Harmony was the scene of a murder in 1895. There is a small country...
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  • proponents of emancipation. It is said that the Choptank Quakers' Association (near the Choptank River) is the first religious organization to ban slavery...
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    Douglass' Birthplace Archived December 7, 2014, at the Wayback Machine. Choptank River Heritage. Retrieved June 14, 2020. Although Barker's website devoted...
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    The Choptank Formation is a geologic formation in Virginia and Maryland. It preserves fossils dating from the Miocene epoch of the Neogene period. The...
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    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...
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    Benefits and Socio-Economic Impacts from Oyster Reef Restoration in the Choptank River Complex, Chesapeake Bay". doi:10.25923/bj52-ss27. "Alitta succinea (pile...
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    Douglass' Birthplace Archived December 7, 2014, at the Wayback Machine. Choptank River Heritage. Retrieved June 14, 2020. Although Barker's website devoted...
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