
Tuckahoe Creek is a
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accessed April 1, 2011 tributary of the
Choptank River on
Maryland's Eastern Shore. It is sometimes (erroneously) referred to as the Tuckahoe River. Upstream of
Hillsboro, it forms the boundary between
Caroline County and
Queen Anne's County, passing through
Tuckahoe State Park and dividing the small towns of
Queen Anne and Hillsboro. Downstream of Hillsboro, it forms the boundary between Caroline County and
Talbot County, before flowing into the Choptank.
Two miles south of Queen Anne, east of where Tapper's Corner Road ends at Lewistown Road, a creek flows () into the Tuckahoe near the most likely birthplace of
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, February 14, 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, Abolitionism in the United States, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. He was the most impor ...
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See also
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List of rivers of Maryland
Notes and references
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Tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay
Rivers of Maryland
Rivers of Caroline County, Maryland