Smith Island in the Chesapeake Bay is slowly disappearing as sea rises and erosion hits the shoreline. The population has ...

HOLLAND ISLAND, Md. — The story was strange enough to be a child's fable: In an isolated section of the Chesapeake Bay, there was a two-story Victorian house that seemed to emerge directly from ...

The last house on Holland Island, a large Chesapeake Bay island that was reduced to one house by erosion, is pictured on October 21, 2010 in Crocheron, Maryland.

Holland Island was once five miles long. It was home to a fishing community of 250 to 360 people, with more than 60 homes, a church and other buildings. But erosion forced the residents to leave &m… ...

But, in truth, Smith Island’s story seems to have been written many times over on other Chesapeake Bay islands: The last residents of James Island, formerly home to hundreds of settlers on 975 ...

Once one of the most populated islands in the bay, Holland Island was first settled in the 1600s and grew to a community of around 350 people by 1910. There were dozens of homes, a post office, a ...

MARYLAND WILDLIFE. Pelican Numbers Grow On Chesapeake Island. By Martin Weil. September 20, 2008 at 8:00 p.m. EDT.

Jay Fleming, of Maryland, has published “Island Life” a book on the islands of the Chesapeake Bay, including Smith and Tangier Islands. (Courtesy Jay Fleming) Not all the images are taken at ...

HOLLAND ISLAND, Md. — The story was strange enough to be a child’s fable: In an isolated section of the Chesapeake Bay, there was a two-story Victorian house that seemed to emerge directly ...