Chincoteague doesn't have a beach.
chincoteague is the populated yet smaller island while assateague is home to the ponies and much much bigger.
Chincoteague ponies are found in a little island on the side of Virginnia. Chincoteague Ponies are actually found on the small island off the east side of Virginia and Maryland. The island's name is Assateague, so it's ironic that the ponies are called Chincoteague ponies instead of Assateague ponies.
They live on Assateague Island, and every year they are rounded up, made to swim across the channel over to Chincoteague island, where some are auctioned in order to maintain the number of horses on the island. the rest are released back onto Assateague to live in the wild for another year.
Chincoteague Island is in Virginia. East and slightly north of Richmond, VA. South of Maryland and Delaware. Very near the border of Maryland. Bordered by Chincoteague Bay and Assateague Bay. West of Assateague Island and Morris Island.
In 1925, they held the first annual roundup of the Assateague (Chincoteague) ponies. This is called the Chincoteague pony swim. During this, they swim a herd of the ponies across the Assateague Channel (inbetween Assateague Island and Chincoteague Island). When they reach the shore of Chincoteague, the ponies are put in pens. Then, before they swim them back to Assateague Island, they hold an auction to sell some of the ponies. This helps to decrease the population of the wild ponies. The money that they raise from these auctions helps to fund the Chincoteague Volunteer Fire Department, whose firemen are the ones who round up and swim the ponies across the channel.
Chincoteague ponies
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The Assateague Island is located in Delvara, Maryland, America. It is 37 miles long and is a barrier island. It is near Ocean City and near Chincoteague Island.
there are two stories: (1) a spanish galleon crashed in a storm off the coast of chincoteague and the ponies that were aboard swam to shore and (2) the early settlers of assateague let their ponies graze there and after years and years there were reports of wild "beach ponies" on the island. When the settlers moved to chincoteague, the wild ponies stayed. And those were the ancestors of today's chincoteague ponies.
There are several small feral American pony breeds, but the most famous is the Chincoteague/Assateague breed from Virginia/Maryland.
Each year they do the Chincoteague Island/Assateague Island pony swim. Where they send a herd of Chincoteague Ponies over to Assateague where they round them up and auction them off... It really depends on the type, age, and gender of the pony to determine how much it is. The islands are located off of the coasts of Virginia and Maryland.
The larger herd, in the Virginia portion of the island, is owned by the Chincoteague Volunteer Fire Department. The smaller herd in the Maryland portion at the far north of the island is owned and managed by the US National Park Service.