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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.
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.
Joppa was Maryland's most important commercial center in colonial times, with tobacco being the primary commodity crop and export. Long before Baltimore was established, this was one of the busiest ports in the western hemisphere. For many years Joppa reigned the mistress of the Chesapeake bay. Within its borders were the county court-house ...
Location of Harford County in Maryland. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Harford County, Maryland. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Harford County, Maryland, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided ...
Olney, originally patented as Prospect, is a historic home and farm complex located at Joppa, Harford County, Maryland.It is a 264-acre (1.07 km 2) working pony farm with a collection of 15 structures ranging in style, use, and elegance.
McComas Institute is a historic school located at Joppa, Harford County, Maryland, United States.The school was built in 1867, and is a one-story frame structure with a gable roof, five bays long and three bays wide, and resting on a stone foundation.
Old Harford Road follows a curving path along relatively high land bordering streams that feed the upper Chesapeake Bay, including Chinquapin Run.This suggests its likely origin as an Indian trail that subsequently was adopted by settlers to convey farm products from northeastern Baltimore County, Harford County, and southern Pennsylvania to the port of Baltimore in the late 18th century.
The Maryland Center for History and Culture (MCHC), formerly the Maryland Historical Society (MdHS), [6] founded on March 1, 1844, [1] is the oldest cultural institution in the U.S. state of Maryland. The organization "collects, preserves, and interprets objects and materials reflecting Maryland's diverse heritage".