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Inspired by Lafayette's comments, the residents incorporated the town as Havre de Grace in 1785. George Washington stayed overnight in the town in 1789 on the journey to New York City for his first inauguration. During the First Congress in 1789, Havre de Grace missed by only one vote being named the capital of the fledgling United States. [4] [5]
Havre de Grace Historic District is a national historic district at Havre de Grace, Harford County, Maryland, United States.It is an urban district of approximately a thousand buildings and includes the central business district and most of the residential neighborhoods radiating out of it.
The Southern Terminal, Susquehanna and Tidewater Canal is a national historic district at Havre de Grace, Harford County, Maryland, United States.Located along the western bank of the Susquehanna River near its mouth at the Chesapeake Bay, it includes the Lock Master's House, the canal's outlet lock, and the foundations of a bulkhead wharf along the river side of the lock.
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The community was established after the American Civil War in 1866. Freedmen (and women) Peter Sanks, Matilda Papy, Harriet Weedman, Miles Hancock, Israel McKenzie, Aaron DuPont and Tom Solana leased land for $1.00 a year on what was then the west bank of Maria Sanchez Creek, across from the developed part of St. Augustine.
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Havre de Grace Historic District: March 25, 1982 : Roughly bounded by Chesapeake Bay, the Susquehanna River, U.S. Route 40, and Stokes, Juniata, and Superior Sts. Havre de Grace: 28: Havre de Grace Lighthouse: Havre de Grace Lighthouse
View west along MD 155 at MD 763 in Havre de Grace. MD 155 begins at an intersection with MD 22 (Churchville Road) in Churchville. The state highway heads east as Level Road, a two-lane undivided road that passes north of Church of the Holy Trinity and Churchville County Park and intersects Glenville Road, which heads northeast through the Finney Houses Historic District.