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Lake Roland Historic District, declared in 1992, is a national historic district in Baltimore City and Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. [4] It consists of a man-made lake, Lake Roland , portions of the Jones Falls and Roland Run streambeds, and portions of the rights-of-way of former Green Spring Valley Railroad and the Northern ...
Lake Artemesia is a man-made lake in Prince George's County, Maryland, located within the Lake Artemesia Natural Area in College Park and Berwyn Heights.The lake covers an area of 38 acres (150,000 m 2), and the surrounding natural area is administered by Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission and includes aquatic gardens, fishing piers, and hiker-biker trails.
Lake Roland is a 100-acre (0.40 km 2) defunct reservoir in Baltimore County, Maryland. It was named for Roland Run, a nearby stream that feeds the lake and eventually flows into Jones Falls . It runs southeast through the city center to the Northwest Branch of the Patapsco River and the Baltimore Harbor .
The Maryland State General Assembly passed a bill creating a five-member Park Commission in 1918. Three years later, a swamp in the park was drained creating Lower Lake. And in 1924, Mr. and Mrs. Singer donated the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts to City Park.
Deep Creek Lake is a man-made reservoir in the U.S. state of Maryland. [1] It has an area of 3,900 acres (16 km 2), a shoreline length of 69 miles (111 km), and a volume of 106,000 acre⋅ft (0.131 km 3). [2] [3] The lake is home to a wide variety of aquatic
The area got its name from its role as a lookout post, used to watch British ship movements during the War of 1812. [9]During the War of 1812 the Chesapeake Bay was a major route for British War ships, who established a naval and military base at near-by Tangier Island in Virginia for the Royal Navy under Rear Admiral George Cockburn with Fort Albion there, which constantly raided Chesapeake ...
The new movie "Caddo Lake," from M. Night Shyamalan's studio, was partly filmed in Shreveport. Here's how to stream the film, released last week.
Lake Elkhorn is a 37-acre (150,000 m 2) [2] reservoir located in the Owen Brown area of Columbia, Maryland. It is Columbia's third and largest lake. [3] [4] Its main features are a small dam and a park with a picnic pavilion and a two-mile (3 km) walking path around the lake. The path was built in 1982 [5] and is surrounded by a park and ...