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36-502: At the time of the arrival of English settlers in the 1630s, they lived in a village near Chester River that flowed in the Chesapeake Bay . Dr. Jon Seidel recently speculated Indiantown Farm in modern-day Queen Anne's County as a possible location of the village. The Ozinie may have used Eastern Neck Island for shellfishing. They had an estimated population of 255 people. The Ozinie spoke an Algonquian language and were related to

72-598: A railroad that carried ferry passengers to other parts of the Eastern Shore. Also during this time, small resorts on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean were established in the area. Such a resort existed at Love Point, to the north of Stevensville. Farming returned to the economy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with farmers growing crops including corn, wheat, berries, and melons. Many of

108-569: A legal apartheid system, where incidents such as the murder of Ozinie Indians by English settlers would go unpunished, while violence by Ozinie Indians against English settlers were dealt with in colonial courts. In 1667, tensions came to a head, according to Talbot County historian Dickson J. Preston: "In 1667 Captain James Odber, military commander of the district, and his servant were murdered, allegedly by Wicomesses [Ozinie] Indians. That produced demands for vengeance from white settlers throughout

144-483: A planned trail system for Queen Anne's County; the entire Cross Island Trail and the existing section of the Kent Island South Trail represent the only completed portions of the system. The bridges that currently connect Kent Island to the mainland, or once did, are as follows: Access to Annapolis is available via MTA Commuter Bus Service Route 210. Weekday service to the mainland begins at 5:30 am and

180-452: A transportation service operated under the Department of Aging, is available as well. It provides specialized transportation services for elderly people and people with disabilities while still serving the general public. It travels to Grasonville, Easton, Centerville, Annapolis, and other towns. It also provides door to door rides with a minimum of two days notice. The original section of

216-473: Is located partially on the island. Although all of Kent Island's communities are unincorporated , the census designated places of Stevensville and Chester on the island are both more populous than any of Queen Anne's County's incorporated towns. Before European colonization , Kent Island was inhabited by Native Americans for nearly 12,000 years. The island was inhabited by the Matapeake people , members of

252-522: Is the head of navigation. Sewell Branch and Andover Branch join in a private impoundage of approximately 30 acres (120,000 m ) about two miles (3 km) above joining with Cypress Branch and then becoming the Chester River. Its main tributaries are Langford Creek and Morgan Creek on the north side and the Corsica River and Southeast Creek on the south side. There are also several small creeks on

288-559: The Algonquian nation whom the Matapeake area of Kent Island is named. Other tribes that inhabited the area and often visited the island included the Ozinie tribe. The Matapeake people referred to the island as Monoponson in their language. During the 16th and 17th centuries, early explorers of the Chesapeake Bay, including Captain John Smith (who had named the area "Winston's Island" ), were

324-595: The Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area and was home to 16,812 residents at the time of the 2000 U.S. Census . The combined area of the Stevensville and Chester CDPs had 9,603 residents. Many have relocated from the Washington, D.C. , or Baltimore metro areas and continue to commute back there. Stevensville and Chester are also among the most densely populated areas of the Eastern Shore, and

360-406: The Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area . The bridge completely replaced the steamboat system and also led to further growth of Kent Island and the rest of the Eastern Shore. In 1973, to accommodate growing traffic across the bay, the bridge was expanded with an additional span built next to the existing one. Then, in the late 1980s and early 1990s U.S. Route 50 was converted to a freeway across

396-610: The Cross Island Trail , a walking and biking trail on Kent Island, was built in the late 1990s, as part of Queen Anne's County's portion of the American Discovery Trail . The full trail was completed in 2001. By the time the Cross Island Trail was completed, growing concern over the safety of pedestrians using the shoulder of Route 8 prompted the construction of a new trail paralleling the road. When completed,

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432-601: The Kent Narrows barely separates the island from the Delmarva Peninsula , and on the other side, the island is separated from Sandy Point, an area near Annapolis , by roughly four miles (6.4 km) of water. At only four miles wide, the main waterway of the bay is at its narrowest at this point and is spanned here by the Chesapeake Bay Bridge . The Chester River runs to the north of the island and empties into

468-656: The Nanticoke , another Algonquian -speaking tribe, Captain John Smith encountered the Ozinie in 1608. In his monograph, Talbot County: A History , Dickson J. Preston locates a "fortified village" of the Ozinie, "south of the Chester River in present Queen Anne's County" that was encountered by English settlers in the 1630s. The Ozinie at that time were frequently at odds with the Susquehannocks, and English settlers would go on to pit

504-704: The 19th century and earlier include the Cray House , a rare remaining example of post and plank construction, the old Stevensville post office (left, yellow building in center), Christ Episcopal Church , and the Stevensville Train Depot (right). Stevensville's historic district along with some of the buildings in the town are on the National Register of Historic Places . Listed are notable people who have lived on Kent Island. The main mode of transportation on Kent Island, as with most other suburban areas of

540-410: The Chesapeake Bay at Kent Island's Love Point . To the south of the island lies Eastern Bay . The United States Census Bureau reports that the island has 31.62 square miles (81.90 km ) of land area. Kent Island is part of Queen Anne's County, Maryland , and Maryland's Eastern Shore region . The first English establishment on the island, Kent Fort , was founded in 1631, making Kent Island

576-549: The Chester River at Chester Town, also called New Town on Chester, and threw its load of tea overboard, mimicking the Boston Tea Party and its act of defiance against King George III . This came to be known as the Chestertown Tea Party . While primary source documents show that Chestertown residents did have at least one meeting to discuss the presence of tea aboard the locally owned merchantman Geddes , and later

612-475: The Eastern Shore. The settlers enlisted the help of the other tribes and sent out an expedition which wiped out the entire nation, to that the last man, woman, and child, in what may have ben America's first genocidal war. According to Preston, the assistance of the Nanticokes in this campaign was negotiated in return for hunting and fishing rights. The campaign recruited men from a proportion of settler families in

648-676: The United States, is the automobile. Kent Island's main roads include the U.S. Route 50 / U.S. Route 301 freeway, which connects the island to Central Maryland via the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and to the Delmarva Peninsula via the Kent Narrows Bridge . The island is also served by Maryland Routes 8 , 18 , and 552 . On week days, the Maryland Department of Transportation offers four commuter bus routes to take Kent Island commuters to Baltimore or Washington D.C. The County Ride,

684-429: The area: A colonial expedition with Major Thomas Ingram of Talbot County as field commander was quickly organized. He was authorized to raise an army of 400 men, including 60 from Talbot, by drafting every tenth able-bodied man in the province. Each man was to supply his own clothing, gun, sword, powder, shot, and flints, and every sixth man was to bring along an axe. Details of the war that followed have been lost, but it

720-435: The different tribes of the Eastern Shore against the Ozinie as part of a strategy to eradicate their presence, as the Ozinie were among the most hostile of the region's tribes to English settlers and made it clear that they rejected English presence, laws and customs. Military extermination campaigns and settler incursions further scattered the Ozinie population over the following decades. Ozinie Indians themselves encountered

756-402: The disputes. Virginia's official claims to the island, however, continued until 1776. Until the early 19th century, Kent Island was used almost entirely for farming of tobacco and corn, however that ended due to the depletion of nutrient-rich soil as a result of the lack of crop rotation and poor farming practices . The island's economy went into decline while the soil recovered, except for

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792-412: The first Europeans to see Kent Island; however, it wasn't until August 1631 that the island became an English settlement. At that time, William Claiborne , a resident of Jamestown, founded a settlement near the southern end of the island for the purpose of trading with Native Americans and named the island after his birthplace of Kent , England . The settlement burned down in the winter of 1631–32 but

828-531: The island's inhabitants worked as watermen in the expanding seafood industry capitalizing on the Chesapeake's supply of Maryland Blue Crab , rockfish, and oysters. As roads replaced railroads and steamboats into the twentieth century, there was a growing need for a road bridge connecting the two shores of the Chesapeake Bay. In 1952 the Chesapeake Bay Bridge was completed, connecting the island directly to

864-466: The island. In September 2003, Kent Island was one of the many places in the Chesapeake Bay Area affected by Hurricane Isabel . Local businesses and historic local landmarks were either damaged or destroyed in the storm and the storm surge caused by it. Much of the damage from the hurricane, mostly caused by flooding, took several months to repair. Today, Kent Island is considered a suburb of

900-429: The last bus to leave Washington departs at 6:48 pm. Also, access to Washington, D.C., is available via MTA Commuter Bus Service Route 240 and 250. Weekday service to the mainland begins at 5:00 am for Route 240 and 4:45 am for Route 250 and the last bus to leave Washington departs at 7:28 pm for Route 240 and 7:08 pm for Route 250. Local airports on the island serve as another type of connection to

936-630: The mainland. The largest is the Bay Bridge Airport , located near the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. Before the construction of the Bay Bridge, ferry services connected the island directly to Baltimore , Annapolis, and the small peninsula on which St. Michaels , is located. Some of the piers that were used as part of the ferry service are still used for fishing. Into the 1930s the Baltimore and Eastern Railroad operated passenger service from Love Point on

972-526: The most densely populated in Queen Anne's County, making up 23.67 percent of its population and only 3.07 percent of its land area. As of 2006, many of the island's historic places have been preserved and are highlighted by the Chesapeake Country Scenic Byway and the American Discovery Trail , both of which pass through the island. Several buildings on the island that are still leftover from

1008-552: The neighboring Nanticokes by the 1660s. Chester River The Chester River is a major tributary of the Chesapeake Bay on the Delmarva Peninsula . It is about 43 miles (69 km) long, and its watershed encompasses 368 sq mi (950 km ), which includes 295 sq mi (760 km ) of land. Thus the total watershed area is 20% water. It forms the border between Kent County and Queen Anne's County, Maryland , with its headwaters extending into New Castle County and Kent County, Delaware . Chestertown ,

1044-461: The northern shore, including Church Creek, Grays Inn Creek, Shippen Creek, Jarrett Creek, Browns Creek, Broad Creek, Dam Creek, Radcliffe Creek, and Mills Branch. On the southern shore the small creeks include Queenstown Creek, Tilghman Creek, Reed Creek, Grove Creek, Hambleton Creek, Rosin Creek, Foreman Branch and Unicorn Branch. Local lore has it that in 1774, colonists boarded a British ship anchored in

1080-471: The oldest English settlement within the present day state of Maryland and the third oldest permanent English settlement in what became the United States —after Jamestown, Virginia (1607), and Plymouth, Massachusetts (1620). The census-designated places of Stevensville and Chester are located on the island, along with several other communities, including the fishing community of Kent Narrows , which

1116-480: The port town of Broad Creek . This began to change around the time of the Industrial Revolution . In 1850, the town of Stevensville , was founded after the sale of farms owned by James and Charles Stevens and prospered as a major hub for steamboat travel across the Chesapeake Bay. Stevensville was also the home of a railroad station known as the Stevensville Train Depot that was located near the western end of

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1152-456: The residents sent food to aid the blockaded Bostonians, contemporaneous source material has yet to be found. 39°2′1.87″N 76°11′43.21″W  /  39.0338528°N 76.1953361°W  / 39.0338528; -76.1953361 Kent Island, Maryland Kent Island is the largest island in the Chesapeake Bay and a historic place in Maryland . To the east, a narrow channel known as

1188-677: The seat of Maryland's Kent County , is located on its north shore. It is located south of the Sassafras River and north of Eastern Bay , and is connected with Eastern Bay through Kent Narrows . The Chester River begins at Millington, Maryland , where Cypress Branch and Andover Branch join together. It ends at the Chesapeake Bay in a very wide mouth between Love Point on Kent Island , and Swan Point, near Gratitude, Maryland . Cypress Branch rises in southwestern New Castle County, Delaware, and Andover Branch, with its tributary, Sewell Branch, rises in northwestern Kent County, Delaware. Millington

1224-546: The trail, known as the Kent Island South Trail , will run from Romancoke Pier at the southern end of Route 8, heading north and crossing the road in Matapeake , near Matapeake Elementary and Middle schools. From there it will pass through Mobray Park, then over US 50, through Stevensville to end at the Cross Island Trail in or near Old Love Point Park. Both the Cross Island and Kent Island South Trails are part of

1260-515: Was certainly a great success from the whites' point of view. Philemon Lloyd, colonel of the Talbot militia who took part, later reported with grim satisfaction that it had "been brought to an end by the defeat and total destruction of a nation of savages called the Wicomesses." As nearly as can be determined, not a single man, woman, or child, was left alive. Other sources argue that Ozinie assimilated with

1296-444: Was quickly rebuilt, and in 1634 the settlement included a gristmill, courthouse, and trading station. Following the formation of the province of Maryland , Claiborne continued to recognize the island as part of his home colony of Virginia , while Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore recognized it as part of Maryland. Claiborne was forced from and returned to the island twice before leaving permanently in 1658, thus effectively ending

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