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Lake Montebello is a reservoir located near Mayfield and Coldstream-Homestead-Montebello in Northeast Baltimore City in central Maryland. The lake was excavated and constructed in 1881, and nearby Montebello Filtration Plants 1 and 2 were completed in 1915 and 1928, respectively. [ 1 ]
Lake Kittamaqundi is a man made 27-acre (110,000 m 2) reservoir located in Columbia, Maryland in the vicinity of the Mall in Columbia as well as Merriweather Post Pavilion. It is also adjacent to offices and visible from US-29. [1] The lake was created by The Rouse Company in 1966 during the development of
On November 19, 1915, due to silting problems and the creation of the much larger Loch Raven Reservoir the prior year, the lake's use was terminated, apart from its use again on December 2 that year. [1] [11] The following year, some parts of the lake were sold to the L'Hirondelle Club and the county's division of the water department was ...
Deep Creek Lake is a man-made reservoir in the U.S. state of Maryland. [1] It has an area of 3,900 acres (16 km 2 ), a shoreline length of 69 miles (111 km), and a volume of 106,000 acre⋅ft (0.131 km 3 ).
Lake Roland Historic District, declared in 1992, is a national historic district in Baltimore City and Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. [4] It consists of a man-made lake, Lake Roland , portions of the Jones Falls and Roland Run streambeds, and portions of the rights-of-way of former Green Spring Valley Railroad and the Northern ...
The Maryland Historical Trust (MHT) describes the district as follows: . The Bare Hills Historic District, covering approximately 275 acres, takes its name from the geological formation it in part encompasses, a promontory of Serpentine (“copper rock”) around which the Jones Falls flows on its way to Baltimore and the Chesapeake Bay.
Greenbrier State Park is a public recreation area located on South Mountain, three miles (4.8 km) northeast of Boonsboro in Washington County, Maryland, USA. The state park has camping, hiking trails, and a 42-acre (17 ha) man-made lake. It is managed by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. [3]
Lake Habeeb is a reservoir of 243 acres (0.98 km 2) and is located in Allegany County, Maryland, United States. The lake is fed by Rocky Gap Run, and nestled against the east side of the southern tip of Evitts Mountain. The dam was built by the Army Corps of Engineers in 1970 and Rocky Gap State Park formally opened on July 17, 1974, [2] it ...