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Calvert Cliffs State Park. Calvert Cliffs State Park is a public recreation area in Lusby, Calvert County, Maryland, that protects a portion of the cliffs that extend for 24 miles along the eastern flank of the Calvert Peninsula on the west side of Chesapeake Bay from Chesapeake Beach southward to Drum Point. [4] [5] The state park is known for ...
Calvert County. The Calvert Formation is a geologic formation in Maryland, Virginia, and Delaware. It preserves fossils dating back to the early to middle Miocene epoch of the Neogene period. It is one of the three formations which make up the Calvert Cliffs, all of which are part of the Chesapeake Group .
Calvert and his family lived at Mount Airey mansion, now a part of Rosaryville State Park. Benedict Swingate Calvert, (c.1730-1788), son of Charles Calvert, fifth Baron Baltimore, lived at Mount Airy, and died there on January 9, 1788. Calvert was a politician and planter in colonial Maryland.
Flag Ponds Nature Park is a nature preserve located in Lusby, Maryland along the Chesapeake Bay in Calvert County, Maryland. It is operated by the Calvert County Department of Natural Resources. The park includes nature trails and a beach for swimmers. Fossil shark's teeth eroded from the Calvert Cliffs formation may be collected on the beach ...
Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant. / 38.43194°N 76.44222°W / 38.43194; -76.44222. The Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant ( CCNPP) is a nuclear power plant located on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay near Lusby, Calvert County, Maryland in the Mid-Atlantic United States. It is the only nuclear power plant in the state of Maryland.
U.S. National Register of Historic Places. Area. 4 acres (1.6 ha) NRHP reference No. 73000907 [1] Added to NRHP. April 11, 1973. The Cove Point Light is a lighthouse located on the west side of Chesapeake Bay in Calvert County, Maryland. [2] [3] [4]
The Governor Thomas Johnson Memorial Bridge (also referred to as the Thomas Johnson Bridge and the Solomons Bridge) is a 1.37-mile (2.20 km) bridge in Maryland over the lower Patuxent River joining Calvert and St. Mary's counties. The bridge, named for the first governor of Maryland, Thomas Johnson, saw construction start in 1972 and opened to ...
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