CRAB POINT DORCHESTER COUNTY MARYLAND

DORCHESTER COUNTY MARYLAND'S CRAB POINT

HOOPERS ISLAND & STRAITS

HUNGER RIVER & CHESAPEAKE BAY

Crab Point juts out into the Honga River, I call it Hunger River because

that what the people there called it. The Honga and Fox Creek run together

at Duck Point cove and Crab Point cove into the Chesapeake Bay at

Hoopers Strait's and Tangier Sound , west of the towns of Toddsville,

Wingate and Bishops Head. , north of Crocherton and south of Crapo,

( if your are there better pronounce it Crapeo) , The above should give you

the general location of Crab Point.

The Hunger River, or Honga; in Lakes Division named so in 1829 for

the Lake family; one mile wide, flows 14 miles southeast to Hooper

Strait. It has the name from the Powatan Indians name “Kahunge “ meaning “Goose”. The river is the historical center of the oyster

business of Dorchester County Maryland . The Honga is actually the

wide southern end of a strait which includes Slaughter Creek, Upper

Keene Broad,, Dunnock Island Creek and Lower Keene Broad.

The Lakes Political Division came from the Strait Division , which had

settlements in 1660, in 1829 and named for the prominent and patriotic Lake Family who lived there.

Some of the earliest eastern shore settlers who lived there were the

Keenes, Hoopers, Gootees, Insleys and Shentons.

Lakes had vast tracts of old growth oak and pine timber which were the

last to be harvested in Dorchester..

Source: History of Dorchester County Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland,

by Elias Jones, 1902