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The site has since been redeveloped for commercial use, and it currently includes a former Walmart store that opened in 2002 and closed in January 2016. [3]Interstate 95 serves Port Covington through Exits 54 (Hanover Street) and 55 (Key Highway); through this area, McComas Street serves as a frontage road between the two exits and continues east into the Locust Point neighborhood.
Greensboro is a town located on the banks of the Choptank River in Caroline County, Maryland, United States. The population was 1,931 at the 2010 United States Census. The ZIP code is 21639. The primary phone exchange is 482 and the area code is 410. The town is served by Maryland Routes 480 and 313.
Milford is an unincorporated community in Caroline County, in the U.S. state of Virginia. It was a stop on the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad in the nineteenth century; the railroad has since been replaced by CSXT. Milford is west of Bowling Green along VA 207, and is home to Caroline Middle School [2] and High School. [3]
In later years, U.S. Route 301 was built through the area, connecting Richmond with Baltimore, Maryland, by what was effectively an eastern bypass of the Washington, D.C., area. A new road, Virginia State Route 207, was established from Bowling Green west to Carmel Church. It intersects Interstate 95 and U.S. Route 1, major north–south highways.
The first contact that European explorers had with the Caroline islands was in 1525, when a summer storm carried the Portuguese navigators Diogo da Rocha and Gomes de Sequeira eastward from the Moluccas (by way of Celebes). They ended up reaching several of the Caroline islands and staying there for several months, until 20 January 1526. [17]
Lower Trestles, the famed surfing spot in Southern California, is fast becoming a happy hunting ground in the career of American surfer Caroline Marks.
Locust Point has been called "Baltimore's Ellis Island" because the neighborhood was once the third largest point of entry for immigrants to the United States after Ellis Island and the Port of Philadelphia. From 1868 until the closure of the Locust Point piers in 1914, 1.2 million European immigrants entered Baltimore through Locust Point. [4]
It is also just a water taxi ride from Baltimore's Inner Harbor as well as Federal Hill. In 2006 the Baltimore City Paper selected Upper Fells Point as Baltimore's Best Neighborhood. [3] The neighborhood was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 21, 2007. [1] It is within Baltimore National Heritage Area. [5]