CELEBRATIONS
Festivals and Events and Fast Search
CULTURE
Bay Life - Past and Present
CUISINE
Dining and Recipes
CONNECTIONS
Bay Links and Blue Crab Links
COMMERCE
The Blue Crab Store and Amazon.com
Native Americans prospered in the Chesapeake Bay region
thousands of years before the first contact with European
explorers and settlers. The Maryland Historical Society
has an interesting on-line Historical Chronology of
Maryland settlement. The Chesapeake Bay Program
website has interesting Bay History sections including
an African American History in the Bay.

The Chesapeake Bay has a marvelous combination of
historical,educational and recreational sites which capture
the bay's past,let us enjoy the bay today, and help us learn to
preserve the bayfor the future.

Ashore or afloat find your place on or around the bay and enjoy the relaxation of the Chesapeake experience.
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum Pride of Baltimore II firing salute. Elk Neck State Park
Jug Bay Ecology Center
Oysterman at work
Concord Point Lighthouse Tall Ship in Baltimore Harbor
Class aboard skipjack