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The Wye River is a 16.3-mile-long (26.2 km) [1] tributary of the Chesapeake Bay, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. It was named by the Lloyd family, Edward Lloyd (delegate) , and Edward Lloyd (Governor of Maryland) , after the River Wye in the United Kingdom . [ 2 ]
List of rivers of Maryland . The list is arranged by drainage basin from east to west, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name and ordered from downstream to upstream. By drainage basin
Unmarked, at high water mark, because the Maryland West Virginia state line is at the high water mark even tho the Maryland Virginia state line runs generally along the low water line, so perhaps misclassified here because it is rarely actually under water. [38] Michigan: Minnesota: Wisconsin
English: OpenStreetMap image of the far northern valley of Virginia and the West Virginia panhandle. Specifically Martinsburg, West Virginia (exact top = 39.5782); Romney, West Virginia (exact left = -78.7994); Charles Town, West Virginia (exact right = -77.8175); and Winchester, Virginia (exact bottom = 38.9829).
The Wye River plantation, or Wye Hall was the Eastern Shore of Maryland home of William Paca, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, [2] constructed in 1765, and extensively renovated in 1790 by John Paca, with Joseph Clark as architect, at a cost of $20,000.
The river was thus included in the district of Kentucky, which was then a part of Virginia. [citation needed] In January 1980, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Ohio v. Kentucky that the state line is the low-water mark of the Ohio River's north shore as of Kentucky's admission to the Union in 1792. [2]
West Virginia Route 7 is an east–west state highway located in the U.S. state of West Virginia. The western terminus of the route is at the Ohio state line in New Martinsville, where WV 7 becomes State Route 536 upon crossing the Ohio River. The eastern terminus is at the Maryland state line east of Corinth, where WV 7 continues as Maryland ...
This was complemented in 1930–1931 with a deck plate girder bridge that carried the B&O Main Line (now the CSX Cumberland Subdivision) to Martinsburg, West Virginia. A rail tunnel, known as the Harpers Ferry Tunnel, was built at the same time as the 1894 bridge to carry the Valley Line through the Maryland Heights, eliminating a sharp curve ...