For two decades after the English Civil Wars ended and King Charles II was restored to the throne, he used the Chesapeake colonies as a dumping ground for England's unwanted radicals. For several ...

The State of Maryland has just planted four million of these colonies in a river where it meets the Chesapeake. "Every oyster that we have out there is another oyster that's gonna be spawning and ...

Mid-Atlantic Colonies, Chesapeake Colonies, Southern Colonies, and the Spanish Colony of Saint Augustine. Task 2 Each group will conduct research to learn more about their colony and the colonies ...

English immigration to the Chesapeake Bay area of the North American colonies took place mainly between the years of 1641 and 1675, and involved the colonies of Virginia and Maryland. Jamestown ...

What led Virginians and residents of twelve other colonies to declare independence ... Explain the economic, social, and architectural origins of Chesapeake plantations and towns, and the way that ...

The state of Maryland has committed to a restoration plan looking to rebuild oyster colonies in five tributaries ... a nonprofit dedicated to Chesapeake Bay oyster restoration.

But heron colonies nesting among eagles is a bit of a curiosity ... “It’s not easy to cover the entire Chesapeake Bay. In the mid-1990s, when we surveyed the entire Bay for osprey, we mapped all of ...

The average size of modern oysters is significantly smaller. Torben Rick, NMNH The Chesapeake Bay suffers from something like cirrhosis of the liver. The excess phosphates and nitrogen that pour ...