Chesapeake Blog Archives - Virginia Estates https://virginiaestates.com/blog-ve/chesapeake/ Virginia’s Premier Real Estate Agency Mon, 09 Oct 2017 20:35:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.5 All About Crabs https://virginiaestates.com/all-about-crabs/ Wed, 05 Jul 2017 15:08:22 +0000 http://virginiaestates.com/?p=8929 All About Crabs   Catching, cooking and eating crabs is a major part of the Chesapeake Bay area tradition. It’s all been done in essentially the same way for centuries. The best part is that you can do it all yourself—catch your own crabs, steam them or make them into crab cakes and eat them on … Continue reading "All About Crabs"

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]]> The Middle Peninsula https://virginiaestates.com/the-middle-peninsula/ Fri, 30 Jun 2017 15:17:56 +0000 http://virginiaestates.com/?p=8912 The Middle Peninsula   Bound by the Rappahannock River on the north, the York River on the south, and the Chesapeake Bay on the east, the Bay area Middle Peninsula consists of Middlesex County, on the south side of the Rappahannock River, and Mathews and Gloucester Counties on the south side of the Piankatank River.   Until … Continue reading "The Middle Peninsula"

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]]> The Northern Neck https://virginiaestates.com/the-northern-neck/ Tue, 20 Jun 2017 14:30:18 +0000 http://virginiaestates.com/?p=8729 The Northern Neck   The Chesapeake Bay area known as the Northern Neck stretches from the Potomac River to the north to the Rappahannock River to the south.  It consists of four counties: Lancaster, Northumberland, Westmoreland and Richmond. In colonial times it was settled exclusively by the English so there is a very strong English and Scottish … Continue reading "The Northern Neck"

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