This island is one isolated spot — 3 1/2 miles by a mile and a half, and most of that marshland — spang in the middle of Chesapeake Bay. Tangier takes its time coming into view. Its water tower, the ...

This article originally appeared in Business Insider. If you stand at the end of the dock in Crisfield, Maryland, and gaze out over the water, you might not catch the tiny shape of a water tower ...