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Chesapeake is the name of various places in the United States of America:

There are also: Chesapeake is a village located in Lawrence County, Ohio. ... Chesapeake is an independent city located in the South Hampton Roads region of eastern Virginia in the United States. ...

Chesapeake Academy, an independent PK-Gr 5 school located in Arnold, Maryland near Annapolis.
Chesapeake Bay, a large estuary or bay whose entry to the Atlantic Ocean is between Norfolk, Virginia and Cape Charles, Virginia. The Chesapeake Bay Watershed

ranges across Virginia, Maryland, the District of Columbia, West Virginia, Delaware, Pennsylvania and New York. Chesapeake Academy, 1185 Baltimore Annapolis Boulevard, Arnold MD 21012, is an independent day school for Pre-Kindergarten through Grade Five. ... Arnold is a census-designated place located in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. ... City nickname: Americas Sailing Capital Location in the state of Maryland Founded 1649 Mayor Ellen O. Moyer (Dem) Area - Total - Water 19. ... Chesapeake Bay - Landsat photo The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States. ... State nickname: Old Dominion Other U.S. States Capital Richmond Largest city Virginia Beach Governor Mark R. Warner (D) Official languages English Area 110,862 kmÂ² (35th) - Land 102,642 kmÂ² - Water 8,220 kmÂ² (7. ... State nickname: Old Line State; Free State Other U.S. States Capital Annapolis Largest city Baltimore Governor Robert L. Ehrlich Official languages English Area 32,160 kmÂ² (42nd) - Land 25,338 kmÂ² - Water 6,968 kmÂ² (21%) Population (2000) - Population 5,296,486 (19th) - Density 165 /kmÂ² (5th) Admission into... Aerial photo (looking NW) of the Washington Monument and the White House in Washington, DC. Washington, D.C., officially the District of Columbia (also known as D.C.; Washington; the Nations Capital; the District; and, historically, the Federal City) is the capital city and administrative district of the United... State nickname: Mountain State Other U.S. States Capital Charleston Largest city Charleston Governor Joe Manchin (D) Official languages English Area 62,809 kmÂ² (41st) - Land 62,436 kmÂ² - Water 376 kmÂ² (0. ... State nickname: The First State Other U.S. States Capital Dover Largest city Wilmington Governor Ruth Ann Minner Official languages None Area 6,452 kmÂ² (49th) - Land 5,068 kmÂ² - Water 1,387 kmÂ² (21. ... State nickname: The Keystone State Other U.S. States Capital Harrisburg Largest city Philadelphia Governor Ed Rendell (D) Official languages None Area 119,283 kmÂ² (33rd) - Land 116,074 kmÂ² - Water 3,208 kmÂ² (2. ... State nickname: Empire State Other U.S. States Capital Albany Largest city New York Governor George Pataki (R) Official languages None (English is de facto) Area 141,205 kmÂ² (27th) - Land 122,409 kmÂ² - Water 18,795 kmÂ² (13. ...

USS Chesapeake (1799) was an American frigate
Chesapeake is sometimes used to refer to the colonial settlement of Jamestown, Virginia, which was in the Chesapeake Bay area.
Chesapeake was also the name of a novel published in the 1970s by James Michener.

This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title. If an article link referred you here, you might want to go back and fix it to point directly to the intended page.

Categories: Disambiguation The USS Chesapeake was a 36-gun sailing frigate of the United States Navy during the Quasi-War with France and the War of 1812. ... Frigate is a name which has been used for several distinct types of warships at different times. ... Jamestown was a village on an island in the James River in Virginia, about 45 miles (70 kilometers) southeast of where Richmond, Virginia, is now. ... This article provides extensive lists of events and significant personalities of the 1970s. ... James Albert Michener (February 3, 1907? - October 16, 1997) was the American author of such books as Tales of the South Pacific (for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1948), Hawaii, The Drifters, Centennial, The Source, The Fires of Spring, Chesapeake, Caribbean, Caravans, Alaska, Texas and Poland. ...

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	The City of Chesapeake adopted Voluntary Water Conservation for all residents.

Chesapeake, Virginia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (953 words)
	Chesapeake is an independent city located in the South Hampton Roads region of eastern Virginia in the United States.
	Chesapeake is one of the larger cities in Virginia and the nation in terms of land, a fact that poses challenges to city leaders in supporting a large infrastructure.
	Chesapeake made national headlines in 2003 when, under a court-ordered change of venue, the community hosted the first trial of convicted murderer Beltway sniper Lee Boyd Malvo for one of the 2002 terrorist-style attacks.

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