Since English settlers first touched the shore of the new country in 1607, the Chesapeake Bay has been a multifaceted engine of American history and commerce. T

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The Baltimore Steam Packet Company, now familiarly knows as the Old Bay Line, has for a century run steamers up and down the Chesapeake Bay.