Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Black Americans were blocked from having access to multiple beaches in the Chesapeake Bay due to the “white-only beaches.” A slave ...

A new story map chronicles 65 historically black beaches and other places of black historical significance in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Blacks of the Chesapeake Foundation and Chesapeake ...

Rock Hall sits quietly at the end of a winding road on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, a place where the rhythms of the water still ...

DELTAVILLE, Va. (AP) — When fire gutted a museum devoted to Chesapeake Bay history, a unique remnant of the bay survived the flames. A log-hulled boat built in 1924 was spared July 18 when fire ...

Shifting baselines in Chesapeake Bay, the immense protein factory -- Why was Chesapeake Bay so productive and how has that productivity changed? -- The spring fishery for shad and river herring was a ...

The Chesapeake Executive Council, the top body responsible for making policy decisions on the watershed’s restoration, on Tuesday adopted a revised Bay Watershed Agreement extending the region’s ...

Chesapeake ecosystem : its geologic heritage / George W. Fisher and Jerry R. Schubel -- Climate and climate history in the Chesapeake Bay region / John E. Kutzbach and Thompson Webb III -- Forests ...