"Chesapeake City Md" Top 5 Page for this destination Maryland Off The Beaten Path Tip by tpangelinan

This is a small town. It is split in half by the C & D Canal. Wonderful old houses, great little shop and outstanding restaurants on the water. This is where the C&D Canal was started back in 1824, connecting the Chesapeake Bay to the Delaware River, Irish immagrents hand dug the canal and completed it in 1829. The towns origanal name was Bohemia Village with only 2 building, 1 a tavern the other a toll collecting house. The town grew, they changed the name to Chesapeake City in hopes of bigger thing I think, 400 people by 1839 and about 750 now. The town is being restored perfectly and closely watched by the Historical Society.