Chesapeake City and Old Bohemia (St. Francis Xavier) Church

Tablet at Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Pumphouse

We toured Chesapeake City and visited the C&D Canal Museum.  Chesapeake City is primarily the result of the building and operation of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal which connects the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays reducing the water travel distance between the Philadelphia and Baltimore by 300 miles.  The museum is housed in a pump house which once was used for the lock at Chesapeake City.  The C&D Canal is allegedly the third busiest canal in the world.  The town is small and quaint with many buildings constructed between the 1820s and 1850s.

http://www.nap.usace.army.mil/Missions/CivilWorks/ChesapeakeDelawareCanal/CanalHistory.aspx

Old Bohemia Church (St. Francis Xavier) is one of the oldest churches in Maryland (1792).  It is also the site of a Catholic academy and here Charles Carroll of Carrolton, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and Archbishop John Carroll, first Archbishop of the United States, received their early education. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Francis_Xavier_Church_(Warwick,_Maryland)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Carroll_of_Carrollton.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carroll_(bishop)

Old Bohemia (St. Francis Xavier) Church