Where is the Eastern Shore?
The Eastern Shore sits at the southern tip of the Delmarva Peninsula. The peninsula (which consists of a small strip of Virginia, much of Maryland and almost all of Delaware) sits between the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean/Delaware Bay. The land border between Virginia and Maryland starts on the west side of the peninsula on the 38th Parallel1 and runs roughly eastwards till it meets the Atlantic. The west point is roughly level with the Maryland-Virginia border in the middle of the Potomac River across the bay, and is said to be the point where Captain John Smith of Jamestown and Pocahontas fame landed to explore. A number of reasons are given as to why the border veers slightly northwards. One is that there was confusion over the magnetic and geographic north. Another is that when delegations from the two states were working out the border, they started off marking out the trees along which the border ran. The Virginia delegate, a surveyor, had his eye on a bit of land near wh
