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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 ...
Harford County is a county located in the U.S. state of Maryland. As of the 2020 census, the population was 260,924. [1] Its county seat is Bel Air. [2] Harford County is included in the Washington-Baltimore-Arlington, DC-MD-VA-WV-PA Combined Statistical Area. The county is part of the Central Maryland region of the state.
In August 2007, Joppatowne became the first high school to specialize in teaching skills useful to the industries serving U.S. Homeland Security. [2] Mother Jones magazine reported that, funded by government agencies as well as defense firms, students in the school's "Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness magnet program will study cybersecurity and geospatial intelligence, respond to ...
Trinity Lutheran Christian School & Early Learning Center (TLCS) is a private K-8 Christian school in the Joppa community and in the Edgewood census-designated place in Harford County, Maryland. [1] [2] Trinity serves families with children ages 6 weeks to 8th Grade.
Riverside is a census-designated place (CDP) in Harford County, Maryland, United States.The population was 6,425 at the 2010 census. [2] The term "Riverside" is generally used interchangeably with "Belcamp"; both names are accepted for the U.S. Postal Service's ZIP Code of 21017.
Towson (/ ˈ t aʊ s ə n /) [3] is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. The population was 59,533 in the 2020 census . It is the county seat [ 4 ] of Baltimore County and the second-most populous unincorporated county seat in the United States (after Ellicott City , the seat of ...
Ruxton and Riderwood are unincorporated communities in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. They are sometimes considered a part of Towson and are part of Towson's census area. The boundaries of Ruxton have been established largely by local custom. Both the eastern boundary, Charles Street, and the western, Falls Road, are generally ...