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Thainston is a farm complex and national historic district in La Plata, Charles County, Maryland, United States.The main house is a two-story, L-shaped brick house built in 1865 and enlarged early in the 20th century.
Marker title Image City Location Topics; 300-Year Old Southern Red Oak: Newburg, Maryland: MD 257 (north side), 400 ft east of US 301: 2]: Araby: Mason Springs, Maryland: MD 255 (west side), 0.3 miles southeast of MD 224
Maryland Route 6 is the main east-west highway serving La Plata, following Port Tobacco Road and Charles Street through town. From La Plata, MD 6 heads west to Port Tobacco and continues east to Charlotte Hall. Maryland Route 225 follows Hawthorne Road westward from US 301 in La Plata, eventually reaching Maryland Route 210 near Indian Head.
La Plata vicinity: part of the Tobacco Barns of Southern Maryland MPS: 11: La Grange: La Grange: October 22, 1976 : Maryland Route 6, west of U.S. Route 301: La Plata: 12: Linden: Linden: November 23, 1977 : North of Port Tobacco on Mitchell Rd.
Maryland Route 488 (MD 488) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. Known as La Plata Road, the state highway runs 6.01 miles (9.67 km) from MD 6 in La Plata east to MD 5 near Bryantown. MD 488 is a connector between La Plata and eastern Charles County, including the town of Hughesville. The state highway was constructed in the mid-1930s.
Chapel Point was once part of the 4,000-acre (1,600 ha) St. Thomas Manor patented by the Roman Catholic Church in 1638. [4] In the 1880s, the Jesuits, in partnership with J. C. and W. M. Howard, built a resort known as Hotel Belleview on Chapel Point, with guests brought in by steamboat from Washington, D.C. [5] In 1924, the site hosted the first Charles County Fair. [6]
The highway was constructed as a 14-foot (4.3 m) gravel road from Indian Head to Mason Springs in 1913 and from La Plata to Ripley in 1915. [5] The gap between Mason Springs and Ripley was filled by 1919. [6] [7] In La Plata, the highway's eastern terminus was originally Washington Avenue, which was the original alignment of MD 3 and later US ...
Oak Grove is a historic home located at La Plata, Charles County, Maryland, United States. It was built in the early Federal style about 1800, and is a one-story, two part brick house of Flemish bond masonry. Two outbuildings date from the 19th century: a small frame dependency built about 1830, and a small corncrib with flanking sheds.