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Learn about Chesapeake Beach, Maryland
Chesapeake Beach is a town in Calvert County. The major attractions there are the Chesapeake Beach Railway Station, the Chesapeake Beach Rail Trail, a water park, marinas, piers, and charter boat fishing. According to the United States Census Bureau, Chesapeake Beach has a total area of 2.79 square miles. That area consists of 2.71 square miles of land and 0.08 square miles of water. Located at the center of town is the Chesapeake Beach Veterans’ Memorial Park. It features a very large American flag and a waterfall fountain. A boardwalk along the Bay spans from 17th Street to the southern end of B Street and the northern entrance to Brownies Beach/Bayfront Park.
Chesapeake Beach shares a border with the Town of North Beach to the north. The Chesapeake Bay is located to the east. The community of Sunderland is located to the southeast. The southern end of Chesapeake Beach remains heavily wooded. It is distinguished by the large sandstone cliffs called the Randle Cliffs. They tower as high as 110 feet above the water. The cliffs are constantly eroding due to ongoing freezing and thawing during the colder months and wave action from the Chesapeake Bay. The debris from the cliffs has formed a number of shallow sand bars. This makes navigation by boat nearby very difficult. The water is very shallow for hundreds of yards into the bay.
Chesapeake Beach grew out from the intersection of Fishing Creek and the Chesapeake Bay. The creek has been dredged to allow pleasure craft, commercial fisherman and a few small U.S. Navy vessels to dock in the city. Fishing Creek is a breeding sanctuary for oysters and sea nettles.
Chesapeake Beach was established as a resort community at the end of the Chesapeake Beach Railway. It was a short railroad from Washington, DC. The town had many slot machines in the early 20th century. Chesapeake Beach was known as part of the “Little Nevada” area of Southern Maryland. The weekend population of Chesapeake Beach often reached into the 10,000’s during the 1920’s. Visitors would come by steamer ships from Baltimore and trains from Washington. The great depression and a bad hotel fire brought an end to the railroad. The construction of the Bay Bridge to Maryland’s Eastern Shore in the 1950s many of Chesapeake Beach’s visitors to now spend their time in Ocean City, Maryland.
A museum at the old railroad station still exists today in Chesapeake Beach. It has many historic photos and an old passenger car from the railroad. The museum was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. More recently, a boardwalk and pier and a new condominium development have risen in Chesapeake Beach. There is also a recreational water park with water slides, a newly opened resort spa hotel, and a seafood restaurant right on the bay. The Herrington Harbour (Rose Haven) marina resort is a few miles north.
Chesapeake Beach is home to the United States Naval Research Laboratory Chesapeake Bay Detachment. The facility experiments with various military radar systems and fire suppression technology. The lab is located above the cliffs along the shore of the Chesapeake Bay. It is able to use the radars against a variety of surface and air targets in the Bay. The Naval Air Station Patuxent River in the community of Lexington Park has several aircraft that assist in the Research lab’s mission.