Holland Island was once five miles long. It was home to a fishing community of 250 to 360 people, with more than 60 homes, a church and other buildings. But erosion forced the residents to leave ...

HOLLAND ISLAND, Md. — The story was strange enough to be a child’s fable: In an isolated section of the Chesapeake Bay, there was a two-story Victorian house that seemed to emerge directly ...

As is the case with most of the bay’s islands, Holland was named for an early owner, a 17th-century colonist named Daniel Holland, according to “The Disappearing Islands of the Chesapeake ...

Smith Island in the Chesapeake Bay is slowly disappearing as sea rises and erosion hits the shoreline. The population has ...

Once one of the most populated islands in the bay, Holland Island was first settled in the 1600s and grew to a community of around 350 people by 1910. There were dozens of homes, a post office, a ...

But, in truth, Smith Island’s story seems to have been written many times over on other Chesapeake Bay islands: The last residents of James Island, formerly home to hundreds of settlers on 975 ...

And Holland Island today is best known nationally for the photograph taken in 2010 of its final house falling into the Chesapeake, another victim of rising seas.

Pelican Numbers Grow On Chesapeake Island. By Martin Weil. September 20, 2008 at 8:00 p.m. EDT.

HOLLAND ISLAND, Md. — The story was strange enough to be a child's fable: In an isolated section of the Chesapeake Bay, there was a two-story Victorian house that seemed to emerge directly from ...