Chesapeake Historic Trail System Growing

Trails along four major Chesapeake Bay tributaries are being added to the Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail.

 

The trail established in 2006 allows visitors to relieve Smith's exploration of the Chesapeake from 1607 to 1609, when he and his crew mapped nearly 3,000 miles of the bay and its rivers as well as documenting American Indian communities.

More