Elk Neck Peninsula

Native American and colonial travelers often canoed or sailed up the Chesapeake Bay to Elkton, where the Elk River became unnavigable, and then walked or took some form of surface transportation to the Delaware Bay watershed, since this was the shortest surface crossing.

Native Americans of the area, including the Nanticoke and Lenni Lenape, hunted and fished, as well as established semi-permanent camps.

[citation needed] Elk Neck State Park includes the southern tip of the peninsula, bounded by the North East River, Elk River, as well as the Chesapeake Bay.

[2] Deep forests, bluffs, beaches and marshlands are the primary natural features of the park's landscape.

In 1877 during the American Revolutionary War, General Howe landed on the peninsula at Turkey point after capturing New York on his way to launch the Philadelphia campaign.