Matapeake, Maryland

Matapeake is an unincorporated community located south of Stevensville on Kent Island, Maryland, United States.

It is named for the historic Matapeake tribe, who lived there at the time of English colonization in 1631.

[1] They were an Algonquian-speaking tribe, related to the paramount chiefdom of the Nanticoke.

Before construction of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, Matapeake was the eastern terminus of a cross-bay ferry.

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