Bay History Building (St. Michaels, MD)

Discover the maritime history of the Chesapeake-from its impact on national and global history to the interdependence of the cultural and natural histories of the Bay. Explore the culture of the Native American inhabitants who named the Bay "Chesapeake." Learn that the first English explorers in North America placed their settlements along the shores of the Bay, and how this region later became linked with a new nation's fight for independence, subsequent growth, and its fracture and reunion at the time of the Civil War.