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Ditto Knolls is a historic home and farm located near Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland, United States. It was built about 1790, and is a five-bay, two-story brick house with a two-bay, one-story brick rear wing. It features a one-story entrance porch supported by Doric columns. Also on the property is a large stone bank barn and springhouse
Map of the boundary stones. The District of Columbia (initially, the Territory of Columbia) was originally specified to be a square 100 square miles (260 km 2) in area, with the axes between the corners of the square running north-south and east-west, The square had its southern corner at the southern tip of Jones Point in Alexandria, Virginia, at the confluence of the Potomac River and ...
Landmark name Image Date established [5] Location County Description; 1: Antietam National Battlefield: August 30, 1890: Sharpsburg: Washington: 2: Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park: January 8, 1971: Maryland: multiple counties Also included in District of Columbia and West Virginia 3: Fort McHenry National Monument and ...
Full name of church is Christ Protestant Episcopal Church of St. Michael's Parish. [54] The Parish was established in 1672. [55] John Hollingsworth patented 50 acres (20 ha) around the shore of the river in 1664, and named it The Beach. Current church, built in 1878, is the fourth church building to occupy the site—part of land that was ...
The Middletown Historic District comprises the historic center of Middletown, Maryland.Middletown became the chief community in the Middletown Valley in the late 18th century, retaining its importance until the 1930s, when the expanding influence of Frederick, Maryland, the construction of a bypass on US 40 and the abandonment of the Hagerstown and Frederick Railway produced a gradual decline.
Granite Historic District is a national historic district in Granite, Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. It comprises the focus of a rural quarrying community located in the Patapsco Valley of western Baltimore County, Maryland. It includes two churches, a school, a social hall, former commercial buildings, and houses and outbuildings ...
Bolton Hill is a neighborhood in Baltimore, Maryland, with 20 blocks of mostly preserved buildings from the late 19th century.It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, [2] preserved as a Baltimore City Historic District, [3] [4] and included within the boundaries of Baltimore National Heritage Area. [5]
Named after the Chesapeake Bay, the retriever was developed in the United States to recover waterfowl for hunters. The University of Maryland, Baltimore County's mascot is a retriever. 1964 [9] Fish: Rock fish Morone saxatilis: The rockfish, also called striped bass, is found in abundance in Maryland. 1965 [10] Flower: Black-eyed susan ...