Sinepuxent Bay

Sinepuxent Bay

Sinepuxent Bay is an inland waterway which connects Chincoteague Bay to the Ocean City Inlet. It separates Sinepuxent Neck, in Worcester County, Maryland, from Assateague Island, and is crossed by the Verrazano Bridge on Maryland State Highway 611 (not to be confused with the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in New York City; both were named for Giovanni da Verrazzano, who explored the coastline in 1524). The bay is the location of the islands that compose the Sinepuxent Bay Wildlife Management Area.

Sinepuxent Inlet, a navigatable waterway through the barrier island during the colonial era, was located just south of the Assateague Island National Seashore day-use area, but was closed in a hurricane in 1818. [ [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~fassitt/sinepuxent_doings.html Stewart, Donald F., "When the Ships' Cannon Roared off Old Worcester Coast", "Maryland Beachcomber" (August 24, 1979).] ] Sinepuxent was a once-thriving community on the mainland about a half mile north of the Verrazano Bridge, also destroyed in the same hurricane.

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External links

* [http://mddnr.chesapeakebay.net/wsprofiles/surf/prof/wsprof.cfm?watershed=02130104 Sinepuxent Bay watershed profile]


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