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Joppa (/ ˈ dʒ ɒ p ə / JOP-ə) is a former colonial town and current planning region of Harford County, Maryland, United States.Joppa was founded as a British settlement on the Gunpowder River in 1707 and designated as the third county seat of Baltimore County in 1712.
The Old Joppa Site was added to the National Register of Historic Places as an archeological site in 1979. [3] [7] Joppa was the county seat of Baltimore County from 1712 to 1768. Present-day Harford County was part of Baltimore County until 1773. Joppa's "mile wide harbor" on the Gunpowder River could accommodate the largest ocean-going ships ...
Joppa Town: Joppatowne, Maryland: Bridge Drive and Anchor Drive: 25] Ladew Topiary Gardens and Pleasant Valley House: Jarrettsville, Maryland: MD 146 (northbound), 0.8 mile south of MD 152, north of Pocock Road
The segment from Fallston to MD 147 at Bagley, which was a county highway in 1930, was resurfaced in macadam in 1932. [6] [7] MD 152 was paved in macadam from US 40 (now MD 7) in Joppa north to Bagley in 1932 and 1933. [7] [8] The state highway was extended north from Rutledge to MD 146 near Taylor in 1938. [9] [10]
Whitaker's Mill Historic District is a national historic district near Joppa, Harford County, Maryland, United States.It includes three early- to mid-19th-century buildings: the 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story rubble stone Whitaker's Mill built in 1851, the 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story rubble stone miller's house, and the log-and-frame Magness House, begun about 1800 as the miller's house for the first mill on the site.
Like Old Court Road, Joppa Road was improved on its state and county segments in the mid-1920s to form a circumferential paved highway around Baltimore. The state-maintained segment of the highway between Towson and Perry Hall was designated Maryland Route 148. MD 148 was widened in the mid-1930s and again in the late 1930s and 1940s.
The Big Gunpowder, 56.7 miles (91.2 km) long, [1] begins in the extreme southern part of Pennsylvania's York County.From there, the Gunpowder flows in a generally southeast direction through the length of Baltimore County – past the Perry Hall Mansion and the site of its former plantation – until it reaches Joppatowne where it is joined by the Little Gunpowder and the Bird River, becoming ...
U.S. Route 40 (US 40) in the U.S. state of Maryland runs from Garrett County in Western Maryland to Cecil County in the state's northeastern corner. With a total length of 221 miles (356 km), it is the longest numbered highway in Maryland.