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Denton Historic District is a national historic district in Denton, Caroline County, Maryland, United States. It is located on the flat land along the south bank of the Choptank River . The west end of the district focuses on the courthouse square, which was laid out in the 1790s, with its late 19th century courthouse building and square faced ...
Location of Caroline County in Maryland. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Caroline County, Maryland.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Caroline County, Maryland, United States.
After World War II, construction began to fill the 5-mile (8.0 km) gap between the eastern end of MD 328 and the western end of MD 457. [10] The new bridge over Tuckahoe Creek and the remainder of the highway were completed in 1947 and by 1948 the MD 328 designation was applied to the whole highway from Easton to Denton.
MD 404 bypasses Denton to the north and east and serves as the main route between the Chesapeake Bay Bridge to the west and the Delaware Beaches to the east. A business route, MD 404 Business, passes through the center of Denton. MD 313 follows MD 404 around the east side of Denton and runs north to Greensboro and south to Federalsburg.
Caroline County is a rural county located in the U.S. state of Maryland.As of the 2020 census, the population was 33,293. [1] Its county seat is Denton. [2] [3] The county is part of the Mid-Eastern Shore region of the state.
The Choptank River is a major tributary of the Chesapeake Bay and the largest river on the Delmarva Peninsula. [4] Running for 71 miles (114 km), [5] it rises in Kent County, Delaware, runs through Caroline County, Maryland, and forms much of the border between Talbot County, Maryland, on the north, and Caroline County and Dorchester County on the east and south.
In 1987, MD 313 and MD 404 were rerouted to bypass Denton along the newly completed four-lane divided bypass. The former alignment of MD 404 through Denton became MD 404 Bus. [18] MD 404 westbound concurrent with MD 313 northbound on the bypass of Denton. The Maryland State Highway Administration worked on improvements to MD 404 in order to ...
Tuckahoe Creek [1] is a 21.5-mile-long (34.6 km) [2] tributary of the Choptank River on Maryland's Eastern Shore. It is sometimes (erroneously) referred to as the Tuckahoe River. [ 3 ] Upstream of Hillsboro , it forms the boundary between Caroline County and Queen Anne's County , passing through Tuckahoe State Park [ 4 ] and dividing the small ...