Located roughly a dozen miles off the coast of Virginia in the Chesapeake Bay, Tangier Island is one of many isolated US cities with a deep-rooted culture. Accessible only by boat, Tangier ...

Chesapeake Bay from North Beach MD to Smith Point VA, Choptank River to Cambridge MD and the Little Choptank River, and Tangier Sound and the inland waters surrounding Bloodsworth Island.

And when you look at a map you can just as easily miss the tiny island that the tower sits on, 12 miles from either coast in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay. Largely unknown, Tangier Island ...

Tangier Island residents work to preserve culture ... a tiny speck of land in the Chesapeake Bay, and threatening a centuries-old culture fostered by the island’s isolation.

An island in Dorchester County that has slowly been submerged by Chesapeake Bay waters over the years could soon be revived.