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Location of Charles County in Maryland. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Charles County, Maryland.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Charles County, Maryland, United States.
Nanjemoy is within the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area, approximately 25 miles (40 km) south of the Capital Beltway (Interstates 95 and 495).. The area is served by Maryland Route 6 and other two-lane state highways; the nearest major roads are Maryland Route 210 to the north and U.S. Route 301 to the east.
Purse State Park is a former Maryland state park located on the Potomac River in Charles County that has been subsumed into the 1,365-acre (552 ha) Nanjemoy Wildlife Management Area. [3] As the Purse Area, the former park is known for fossil hunting on the beaches of Wades Bay at the southern end of the Nanjemoy WMA.
Ironsides is an unincorporated community or "post village" [1] in Charles County, Maryland, United States with zip code 20643. [2] The Post Office was established in 1897 [3] and remained open until at least 1976. [4]
The Nanjemoy Formation was defined by Clark and Martin in 1901, as part of the mapping by the Maryland Geological Survey. The Nanjemoy Formation was divided into two members, the lower or Potapaco, and the upper or Woodstock. The main lithologic distinction is that the lower part of the Nanjemoy is much more clayey than the upper part.
Nanjemoy Creek is a 13.1-mile-long (21.1 km) [2] tidal tributary of the Potomac River in Charles County, Maryland, United States, located between Cedar Point Neck and Tayloe's Neck. Its watershed area (excluding water) is 73 square miles (190 km 2 ), with 2% impervious surface in 1994.
Doncaster Demonstration Forest is located at Nanjemoy in Charles County, Maryland. It is on the north side of Port Tobacco Road, due east of Gilroy Road, and the west side of Gilroy Road, south of the Gilroy Road and Port Tobacco road intersection. [2] Doncaster is 12 miles (19 km) west of La Plata off of Maryland Route 6.
In 1991, The Rouse Company proposed the sale of the environmentally sensitive undeveloped land valued at $1.9 million to a Rouse managed trust paid for by Howard County for $2.2 Million. [3] In 1993, students raised $16,000 to save the 1864 Pfieffers Corner schoolhouse from demolition on its five-acre (2.0 ha) Elkridge site.