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Nanjemoy Creek is a 13.1-mile-long (21.1 km) [2] tidal tributary of the Potomac River in Charles County, Maryland, United States, located between Cedar Point Neck and Tayloe's Neck. Its watershed area (excluding water) is 73 square miles (190 km 2), with 2% impervious surface in 1994. [3]
Nanjemoy is within the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area, approximately 25 miles (40 km) south of the Capital Beltway (Interstates 95 and 495).. The area is served by Maryland Route 6 and other two-lane state highways; the nearest major roads are Maryland Route 210 to the north and U.S. Route 301 to the east.
Today the area is a renowned sanctuary for a variety of birds, harbor seals, river otters, bald eagles, and a colony of bats, as well as serving as an important great blue heron rookery. [2] A recent conservation program in the area between the State of Washington and the Nature Conservancy is the first of its kind in the country. [3]
The following are approximate tallies of current listings in Maryland on the National Register of Historic Places. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [ 2 ] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [ 3 ]
Location County Description; 1: Antietam National Battlefield: August 30, 1890: Sharpsburg: Washington: 2: Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park: January 8, 1971: Maryland: multiple counties Also included in District of Columbia and West Virginia 3: Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine: March 3, 1925 (National Park ...
May 26—Before the southeast corner of Riverside Avenue and Howard Street became a parking lot, it was an important retail and office location since 1890. After the great fire of 1889, five ...
Location of Montgomery County in Maryland. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Montgomery County, Maryland. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are ...
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.