Upcoming Events

Grab and Gab – A community Service project

Chesapeake Heritage and Visitor Center 425 Piney Narrows Road, Chester, MD, United States

Grab and Gab community service project will be held at the Chesapeake Heritage and Visitor Center on March 16th 2024. Everyone will get a trash picker and providing all the art supplies to decorate the picker.   After bedazzling the trash picker head to the shore for a community beach clean up, grab and gab time.  […]

Shantytowns Exhibit

Chesapeake Heritage and Visitor Center 425 Piney Narrows Road, Chester, MD, United States

Please join us for a special viewing of the exhibit.   Beginning in the 1930s, African Americans, both native and migrant, worked in over twenty seafood packing plants on Kent Narrows in Queen Anne’s County, Maryland. Many of these laborers also lived in housing on-site provided by the plant owners. The housing, commonly referred to […]

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