Choptank is an unincorporated town on the Eastern Shore of Maryland

Eastern Shore of Maryland

The Eastern Shore of Maryland is a territorial part of the U.S. state of Maryland that lies predominately on the east side of the Chesapeake Bay and consists of nine counties. The origin of term Eastern Shore was derived to distinguish a territorial part of the State of Maryland from the Western...

, in Caroline County

Caroline County, Maryland

Caroline County is a wholly rural county located in the U.S. state of Maryland on its Eastern Shore. It is bordered by Queen Anne's County to the north, Talbot County to the west, Dorchester County to the south, Kent County, Delaware, to the east, and Sussex County, Delaware, to the southeast. As...

, Maryland

Maryland

Maryland is a U.S. state located in the Mid Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east...

, United States

United States

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. The town was founded in the 17th century. It is on the Choptank River

Choptank River

The Choptank River is a major tributary of the Chesapeake Bay on the Delmarva Peninsula. Running for , it rises in Kent County, Delaware, runs through Caroline County, Maryland and forms much of the border between Talbot County, Maryland on the north, and Caroline County and Dorchester County on...

 running into the Chesapeake Bay. Tradition has it that the name "choptank" was a crude anglization of the Indian name for the river, probably in the Nanticoke

Nanticoke

Nanticoke may refer to:* Nanticoke people in Delaware, United States* Nanticoke language, an Algonquian language* Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape, a state-recognized tribe in New Jersey-Place names:United States* Nanticoke River in Delaware and Maryland...

language.

There was also a group of Algonquians called the Choptank Indian Tribe

Choptank Indian Tribe

The Choptank Indian Tribe was an Algonquian-speaking Native American tribe that historically lived on the Eastern Shore of Maryland on the Delmarva Peninsula. They occupied an area along the lower Choptank River basin, which included parts of present-day Talbot, Dorchester and Caroline counties. ...

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