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This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a map. [1]
Kent Island is the largest island in the Chesapeake Bay and a historic place in Maryland.To the east, a narrow channel known as the Kent Narrows barely separates the island from the Delmarva Peninsula, and on the other side, the island is separated from Sandy Point, an area near Annapolis, by roughly four miles (6.4 km) of water.
The old Stevensville post office is located at 408 Love Point Road. The date of construction for this building is not known, but the building does appear on an 1877 map of Stevensville. [3] The post office was visited by Franklin D. Roosevelt during his visit to Stevensville. The Kent Island Heritage Society acquired the property in 1997. [3]
A locator map showing Kent Island in Maryland. David Benbennick made this map. It is a simple modification of Image:Map of Maryland highlighting Queen Anne's County.svg .
Family name Related Family members Notes Adams. Charles County. Francis Adams (c. 1645 – 1698) [1] early settler John Adams (c. 1670 – 1740) early settler [2] Francis Adams II (1680 – 1766) revolutionary, planter and gentleman [1] Charles Adams (c. 1672 – 1733) carpenter [3] [4] Bowie. Prince George's County
Norman's Retreat is a historic home and farm complex at Galesville, Anne Arundel County, Maryland. It consists of an early-19th-century dwelling, three 19th-century outbuildings, and a bath house and gazebo of recent date. The 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story house was constructed about 1812 and is of frame construction with a brick gable end. [2]
Claiborne repeatedly attempted and failed to regain Kent Island from the Maryland Calverts, sometimes by force of arms, after its inclusion in the lands that were granted by a 1632 Royal Charter to the Calvert family. Kent Island had become Maryland territory after the surrounding lands were granted to Sir George Calvert, first Baron and Lord ...
Norman was born in 1750 into a free mixed-race, African-American family. Because his grandmother Elizabeth Norman (b.c.1695) was a white English woman, she was a free subject in the Maryland colony. She had come to serve as an indentured servant for a period to pay off her passage. [2]