Chesapeake City, Maryland. USA

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Despite its name, Chesapeake City is a tiny Victorian town that was known as "The Village of Bohemia" until 1839. After a white-knuckle drive across the very high two-lane bridge over the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, we parked in the free parking lot under the bridge and easily walked to everything. We heard that parking can be hard to find on Saturday nights.

We visited Chesapeake City on a June weekend in 2005 when the town provided free horse-drawn carriage rides and every house and shop had well-maintained flower boxes under the windows. At least one resident artist and one resident photographer have shops here. Another shop carried fair trade* crafts from around the world.

The canal is a modern active passage connecting the Delaware River and the Chesapeake Bay. It looks like a river here and is used by commercial cargo vessels as well as pleasure craft. Before 1919, however, the canal was small and had wooden locks and mule-drawn barges.

Chesapeake City is near several other QuaintPlaces: Havre de Grace, North East, New Castle, and the Brandywine Valley. This area is a good weekend getaway from Baltimore, Wilmington, or Philadelphia.

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