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Oxford is one of the oldest towns in Maryland. While Oxford officially marks the year 1683 as its founding because in that year it was first named by the Maryland General Assembly as a seaport, the town began between 1666 and 1668 when 30 acres (120,000 m 2) were laid out as a town called Oxford by William Stephens Jr.. By 1669 one of the first ...
Map of the United States with Maryland highlighted. Maryland is a state located in the Southern United States. [1] As of the 2020 United States census, Maryland is the 18th-most populous state with 6,177,224 inhabitants and the ninth-smallest by land area, spanning 9,707.24 square miles (25,141.6 km 2) of land. [2]
The Oxford Historic District encompasses the peninsular portion of the town of Oxford, Maryland. Established as the site of a ferry across the Tred Avon River in 1683, the historic portion of the town occupies a peninsula between that river and Town Creek. The town did not experience any significant growth until the late 19th century, which is ...
County executives head nine of the 23 counties of Maryland: Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Cecil, Frederick, Harford, Howard, Montgomery, Prince George's, and Wicomico.All of these counties have chartered governments and county councils; while Dorchester and Talbot counties also have chartered governments, they do not have executives.
Sep. 18—Howard County employees next year are set to receive a 5% raise for the third year in a row, while employees at the Howard County Sheriff's Office are set to receive a larger 10% raise.
Talbot County is a county located in the U.S. state of Maryland.As of the 2020 census, the population was 37,526. [2] Its county seat is Easton. [3] The county was named for Lady Grace Talbot, the wife of Sir Robert Talbot, an Anglo-Irish statesman, and the sister of Lord Baltimore. [4]
A small Black community in Anne Arundel County goes back to the 1800s. Wilsontown, in Odenton, was where Quakers and freed slaves worked and lived together.
Anne Arundel County (listen ⓘ; / ə ˈ r ʌ n d əl /), also notated as AA or A.A. County, is located in the U.S. state of Maryland.As of the 2020 United States census, its population was 588,261, [1] an increase of just under 10% since 2010.