Chesapeake City is a town in Cecil County, Maryland, United States.

The town was originally named by Bohemian colonist Augustine Herman[3] the Village of Bohemia — or Bohemia Manor — but the name was changed in 1839 after the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal (C&D Canal) was built in 1829.

Today, the town contains numerous old homes from that era that have been converted into bed and breakfasts, restaurants and the local historical museum.

The new bridge had to be tall enough to allow supertankers to pass beneath it, resulting in a structure so high and long that cars no longer went into the city to cross the canal.

[4] Around 1911, members of the Ukrainian community bought farmland at the edge of Chesapeake City and established homes here.

They worked on the canal when it expanded in the 1920s and farmed as they brought their traditions and culture to the top of the Eastern Shore of Maryland.

Basil's Ukrainian Church opened a few years later and prior to World War I the St.

Basil Orphanage on a hilltop alongside the C & D Canal was caring for children.

[5],[6] Chesapeake City is the location of the Old Lock Pump House of the C&D Canal, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.

Chesapeake City is a part of the Cecil County Public Schools System.

The library offers books, music, movies, computers with Internet access, free wifi, and programs for adults, teens, and children.