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Assateague Island National Seashore is a unit of the National Park Service system of the U.S. Department of the Interior.Located on the East Coast along the Atlantic Ocean in Maryland and Virginia, Assateague Island is the largest natural barrier island ecosystem in the Middle Atlantic states region that remains predominantly unaffected by human development.
Assateague stallion Horses play near an Assateague Island campsite Assateague Lighthouse in 2001. Assateague Island is a 37-mile (60 km) long barrier island located off the eastern coast of the Delmarva Peninsula facing the Atlantic Ocean. [1] The northern two-thirds of the island are in Maryland, and the southern third is in Virginia.
It is operated by the Maryland Port Administration (MPA), [1] a unit of the Maryland Department of Transportation. [ 2 ] Founded in 1706, the port was renamed in 2006 for Helen Delich Bentley (1923–2016), who represented Baltimore as a U.S. Representative for a decade and who had also been a maritime reporter and editor for The Baltimore Sun ...
Betterton Beach is located at the foot of Main Street. The beach has 300 feet (91 m) of frontage for swimming. The water is generally free of sea nettles because the water is not very salty. The beach has public restrooms (seasonal), a boardwalk, a fishing jetty, a public landing, and reasonable parking. A picnic pavilion is nearby. [8]
MD 2 leads north to Annapolis and Baltimore, while MD 4 heads northwest to Washington, D.C. Maryland Route 261 is the other highway directly serving the town, following Bayside Road from south to north through Chesapeake Beach and providing connections to other communities along the Chesapeake Bay. Cox Road is unsigned Maryland Route 775, and ...
There are also a number of unnamed islands in Maryland, many of which are very temporary in nature, lasting only a few years or decades, both in the tidal environment and also in Maryland's larger whitewater rivers. These come and go due to the effect of storms. This is a list of named islands of Maryland.
St. Michaels and southern Maryland in 1832 St. Michaels in 1858 St. Michaels Historic District. The community that became Saint Michaels began in the mid-1600s as a trading post for tobacco farmers and trappers who took advantage of the deep–water port's access to the Chesapeake Bay. [6]
HAER No. MD-86-B, "Baltimore Inner Harbor, Pier 6, South of Pratt Street between Concord Street & Jones Falls outlet", 10 photos, 10 data pages, 3 photo caption pages HAER No. MD-86-C, " Baltimore Inner Harbor, Pier 4, South side of Pratt Street between Frederick Street & Market Place ", 7 photos, 14 data pages, 2 photo caption pages