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UTC−4 (EDT) Congressional district. 5th. Website. www.charlescountymd.gov. Charles County is a county located in the U.S. state of Maryland. As of the 2020 census, the population was 166,617. [ 1 ] The county seat is La Plata. [ 2 ] The county was named for Charles Calvert (1637–1715), third Baron Baltimore.
24-45750. GNIS feature ID. 0585340. Website. www.townoflaplata.org. La Plata (/ ləˈpleɪtə / lə-PLAY-tə) [ 3 ] is a town in Charles County, Maryland, United States. The population was 10,159 at the 2020 census. [ 4 ] It is the county seat of Charles County.
The Times Crescent is a newspaper that began publishing on May 26, 1893 and runs to the present day in La Plata, Charles County, Maryland.Walter J. Mitchell, who later became a judge of the Maryland Court of Appeals from 1934-1941, was the man responsible for merging the existing La Plata paper, the Crescent, with the Port Tobacco Times to form the Times Crescent in 1898.
The 2002 La Plata tornado was an extremely powerful and fast-moving multi-vortex tornado that devastated the town of La Plata, Maryland, [ 3 ] killing 3 people and injuring 122 others. [ 4 ][ 5 ] It was the costliest tornado of the tornado outbreak of April 27–28, 2002, causing at least $115 million in damages. [ 6 ]
Pomfret is a census-designated place in Charles County, Maryland, United States. [3] As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 514. [4] There are five properties in the area that are on the National Register of Historic Places. The origins of the settlement go back to at least 1666.
November 10, 1988. St. Thomas Manor (1741) is a historic home and Catholic church complex located near Port Tobacco, Charles County, Maryland. Known as St. Ignatius Church and Cemetery, the manor house complex is the oldest continuously occupied Jesuit residence in the world. The mission settlement of Chapel Point was established in 1641 by ...
Headquarters. Port Tobacco, Maryland. OCLC number. 9717061. The Port Tobacco Times was a newspaper published from 1844 to January 14, 1898 in Port Tobacco, Charles County, Maryland. [1] It was founded as a Democratic newspaper by Elijah Wells Jr. and G. W. Hodges. In 1845, the name of the paper was changed to the Port Tobacco Times and Charles ...
The Charles County Times-Crescent: La Plata: 1893 Weekly Free State Communications, Inc. Also published as The Crescent, 1893-1898, The Times Crescent, 1898-1966, The Times-Crescent The Charles County Leaf, 1966-1971, Times-Crescent, 1971-1989. Columbia Flier: Columbia: 1969 Weekly Tribune Publishing: Cumberland Times-News: Cumberland: Daily