'''CHAPTICO'''
is an
unincorporated community in
St. Mary's County,
Maryland,
United States.
[Interwiki: gnis » 594644]
It lies on
Chaptico Run, which forms a bay as it enters the
Wicomico River.
HISTORY
"Chaptico" may be
Algonquian for "big-broad-river-it-is" and related to the friendly
Chaptico Native American tribe visited by Gov.
Charles Calvert in 1663. The town was a shipping point until the Wicomico River silted up in the 18th century. It was damaged by the British in 1813, during the
War of 1812. Some of its prominent citizens were pro-Southern and jailed during the
Civil War.
[Arnett, Earl, Brugger, Robert J., and Edward C. Papenfuse Maryland: A New Guide to the Old Line State (2nd ed.) The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 1999 p. 9. ]
[Interwiki: cite web » last=Zilliox | first=Jackie | title=Chaptico's Encounter in the War of 1812 | url=http://somdthisisliving.somd.com/vol9num2/Chapticos-encounter-in-war-of-1812.html | year=2007 | month=Summer | work=somd.com | publisher=Southern Maryland This Is Living magazine | accessdate=2009-06-02 ]
Chaptico has a number of properties listed on the
National Register of Historic Places,
[Interwiki: NRISref » 2008a]
including
Bachelor's Hope,
Christ Episcopal Church, and
Deep Falls.
[Interwiki: NRISref » 2008a]
Nearby are Maryland International Raceway, Budds Creek Raceway, and the golf course community of
Wicomico Shores.
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