Smith Island Reflection
by SCB Captures
Title
Smith Island Reflection
Artist
SCB Captures
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
9/28/19 Smith Island, Md
From Wikipedia: www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_Island,_Maryland
Smith Island is an island on the Chesapeake Bay, on the border of Maryland and Virginia territorial waters in the United States.
On its Maryland side, Smith Island is a census-designated place (CDP) in Somerset County, Maryland, United States. It is included in the Salisbury, Maryland-Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Geography
Smith Island lies approximately 10 miles west of Crisfield, Md across the Tangier Sound portion of the Chesapeake Bay. The island consists of three communities, Ewell, Tylerton and Rhodes Point, which all sit on the Maryland portion of the island. The Virginia portion is currently uninhabited, although once contained many homes of early settlers.
The island has been shrinking in size for centuries, because of a combination of its low elevation and storm erosion. In the last 150 years, Smith Island has lost over 3,300 acres (13 km2) of wetlands because of erosion and post-glacial subsidence into the Chesapeake Bay.
In order to prevent the island from being lost to erosion, restoration efforts will be ongoing for the next 50 years to restore 1,900 acres (8 km2) of submerged aquatic vegetation and 240 acres (1 km2) of wetlands
British settlers arrived on the island in the 17th century, arriving from Cornwall, Wales,[4] and Dorset via Virginia.[5]
Smith Island is inhabited by one of the region's oldest English-speaking communities, which is known for its relic accent, preserving speech patterns from the original English colonial settlers. The local dialect is like the dialects of the West Country of England and the dialect of Cornwall. The dialect contains some relict features indicative of its origins.[6] The dialect is like the Ocracoke Brogue,[7] sometimes referred to as the Outer Banks Brogue.[8][9]
The Island Belle was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.[10]
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