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Waltus L. Watkins established the 80-acre livestock farm he called Bethany Plantation in 1839. [8] Watkins Mill was built in 1859-1860. Watkins built housing for the mill workers nearby, creating one of the first planned communities in North America. The community was effectively self-sufficient, the mill producing yarn and wool cloth.
Location of Somerset County in Maryland. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Somerset County, Maryland. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Somerset County, Maryland, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided ...
Watkins Mill may refer to three things in the United States: Watkins Woolen Mill State Park and State Historic Site in Missouri; Watkins Mill High School in Montgomery County, Maryland; Watkins Mill Town Center, a proposed development in Gaithersburg, Maryland
Before the national seashore was created in 1965, the island was going to be turned into a private resort community called Ocean Beach, Maryland. Some 5,000 private lots comprising what is now NPS property were zoned and sold for resort development in the 1950s. However, the Ash Wednesday Storm of 1962 halted the plans for development. The nor ...
Charles Mill Rd., west of its junction with Maryland Route 64 39°41′18″N 77°35′27″W / 39.688333°N 77.590833°W / 39.688333; -77.590833 ( Huckleberry Leitersburg
Watkins Mill High School is a public high school located in Gaithersburg, an incorporated city in Montgomery County, Maryland. The school is named after the Watkins family, who owned a mill on the property. The school opened in 1989 at 269,706 ft² with a 28,140 ft² addition in 1994 and a 3,733 ft² in 1999 with 300 ft² of renovation.
The Chesapeake Beach Railway (CBR), now defunct, was an American railroad of southern Maryland and Washington, D.C., built in the 19th century.The CBR ran 27.629 miles from Washington, D.C., on tracks laid by the Southern Maryland Railroad and its own single track through Maryland farm country to a resort at Chesapeake Beach. [1]
The state-run portion of the trail ends at Maryland Route 355. The county portion is a 7.8-mile natural-surface trail that continues to the north. Follow the trail under the bridge, then cross the creek on the bridge to get to a gravel parking area. From there the trail runs to Watkins Mill Road, where there is also a parking area.