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Map showing the Reserve within Montgomery County. The Agricultural Reserve is a designated land use zone in Montgomery County, Maryland.The 93,000 acres (380 km 2) zone was created in 1980 by the Montgomery County Council to preserve farm land and rural space in the northwestern part of the county.
The main house is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, late Federal-style frame house with additions made in 1855 and 1910. Also on the property are a one-story gable-roofed stone slave quarters, a one-story gable-roofed brick smokehouse, a stone spring house, and the foundations of two barns, all built during the 1824–1850 plantation period. 26: Drury ...
In the 1920s, wealthy individuals from surrounding cities were attracted by the waterfowl concentrations and bought portions of the island for hunting retreats. The present visitor contact station was built as a hunting lodge in 1930. [4] During the 1950s a property developer proposed to subdivide a portion of the island into 293 house lots.
This is a list of Maryland wildlife management areas. As of 2016 [update] , the state of Maryland owned and managed sixty-one wildlife management areas (WMAs) covering 123,530 acres (499.9 km 2 ) of land.
Chapman State Park is a public recreation and historic preservation area bordering the Potomac River in Charles County, Maryland.The state park preserves the mansion and grounds of Mount Aventine, the historic home of the Chapman family, who had significant ties to many of the Founding Fathers.
The new plot will help maintain the water quality of the Nanticoke River watershed and preserve the habitat of species endemic to forest interiors. Maryland purchases nearly 20 acres of Wicomico ...
The following are approximate tallies of current listings in Maryland on the National Register of Historic Places. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [ 2 ] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [ 3 ]
The Mount Airy Mansion is a historic building near Upper Marlboro in Prince George's County, Maryland.Expanded c. 1751 on the site of the 17th century hunting lodge of Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore by his great-grandson Benedict Swingate Calvert, the mansion today is managed by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources within the Rosaryville State Park.