South Chesapeake City Historic District is a national

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Chesapeake City Chesapeake City is a town in Cecil County, Maryland, United States. The population was 736 at the 2020 census. The town was originally named by Bohemian colonist Augustine Herman the Village of Bohemia — or Bohemia Manor — but the name was ...

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. It reflects the town's period of greatest prosperity in the mid 19th century when the adjacent

Chesapeake and Delaware Canal The Chesapeake & Delaware Canal (C&D Canal) is a -long, -wide and -deep ship canal that connects the Delaware River with the Chesapeake Bay in the states of Delaware and Maryland in the United States. In the mid‑17th century, mapmaker Augus ...

was an active commercial artery between major east coast waterways. Buildings from the 19th century dominate those few of the early 20th century and those of recent vintage. It was added to the

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in 1974.

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External links

*, including photo from 1974, at Maryland Historical Trust
Boundary Map of the South Chesapeake City Historic District, Carroll County
at Maryland Historical Trust Chesapeake City, Maryland Historic districts in Cecil County, Maryland Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland National Register of Historic Places in Cecil County, Maryland 1974 establishments in Maryland {{CecilCountyMD-NRHP-stub