Chesapeake
Chesapeake often refers to:
- Chesapeake people, a Native American tribe also known as the Chesepian
- Chesapeake Bay
- Delmarva Peninsula, also known as the Chesapeake Peninsula
Chesapeake may also refer to:
Populated places
In Virginia
- Chesapeake, Virginia, an independent city
- Phoebus, Virginia, formerly known as Chesapeake City
- Chesapeake, Northampton County, Virginia, an unincorporated community
In other US states
- Chesapeake, Indiana, defunct
- Chesapeake, Missouri
- Chesapeake, Ohio
- Chesapeake, Tennessee, a neighborhood of Nashville
- Chesapeake, West Virginia
Schools
- Chesapeake High School, Anne Arundel County, Maryland
- Chesapeake High School, Baltimore, Maryland
- Chesapeake College, public community college based in Wye Mills, Maryland
Ships
- United States lightship Chesapeake (LV-116), a lightvessel
- USS Chesapeake (1799), an American frigate captured by HMS Shannon in 1813
- USS Patapsco (1799), a sloop originally named USS Chesapeake but renamed in 1799 while still under construction
- USS Chesapeake (1898), a training ship renamed USS Severn on 15 June 1905
- USS Chesapeake (ID-3395), a freighter
- USS Chesapeake (AOT-5084)
- HMS Chesapeake (1855), a Royal Navy frigate
- Chesapeake was a British ship launched in 1799 that in 1840 was sold to an American trading house at Canton, which named her Chesapeake, and then sold her to the Qing Dynasty, which purchased her for the Imperial Chinese Navy. The British Royal Navy destroyed her on 27 February 1841 during the Battle of First Bar at the onset of the First Opium War.
Music, entertainment, and books
- Chesapeake (band), a folk-rock/progressive bluegrass band from Maryland
- Chesapeake (novel), a novel published in 1978 by James Michener
- Chesapeake (album), the third full-length album by Rachael Yamagata
- Chesapeake Shores, Canadian/American television drama
- Chesapeake Shores, novel series written by Sherryl Woods
Transportation
- Chesapeake (train), an Amtrak commuter service between Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.
- Chesapeake (train, 1994–1995), an Amtrak service between New York City and Richmond, Virginia
- Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, a former American railroad, operating from 1869 to 1972 in the state of Virginia
- Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
- Chesapeake Bay Bridge, also known as the Bay Bridge, a bridge crossing the Chesapeake Bay
- Chesapeake Bay Bridge–Tunnel, bridge-tunnel crossing the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay
Other
- Chesapeake Bay Retriever, a breed of dog
- Chesapeake Corporation, a historical holding company associated with Van Sweringen railroad holdings
- Chesapeake Energy, an American publicly held producer of natural gas
- Chesapeake Energy Arena, a multi-purpose arena located in downtown Oklahoma City
- Chesapeake Utilities, an American energy services company focusing on distribution of natural gas and propane
- Chesapeake Mill, in Wickham, Hampshire, England, a building constructed from the timbers of the USS Chesapeake
- The Vought Chesapeake, British name for the United States built dive bomber, the Vought SB2U Vindicator
- Hemoglobin Chesapeake, a special form of hemoglobin that causes polycythemia
See also
- Battle of the Chesapeake, a naval battle in 1781 between a British fleet and a combined French-American fleet
- All pages with titles beginning with Chesapeake
- All pages with titles containing Chesapeake
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