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Getaways: Tangier Island

By Rebecca, 9:00 am July 9th, 2009

‘tangier local riding in his little boat to his crab shack.’
courtesy of ‘mrtobo’
Nestled 12 miles west of the Eastern Shore of Virginia, in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay, lies Tangier. The island of Tangier was officially settled in 1686 by John Crockett, whose descendants still reside on this 0.2 square mile cluster of small [...]

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