Biking: the C & D Canal
The Chesapeake and Delaware (C & D) Canal stretches across the top of the Delmarva peninsula from the Chesapeake Bay to the Delaware River. The idea of a canal was first proposed in colonial times to connect Maryland commerce with the industrial colonies to the north, but a working canal was not completed until 1829. A hundred years later the canal was improved, widened and lowered to sea level.