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Kentlands is a neighborhood of the U.S. city of Gaithersburg, Maryland. Kentlands was one of the first attempts to develop a community using Traditional Neighborhood Design planning techniques (also known as 'neo-traditional new town planning') that are now generally referred to under the rubric of the New Urbanism.
UTC−4 (EDT) Congressional district. 6th. Website. www.washco-md.net. Washington County is a county located in the western part of the U.S. state of Maryland. The population was 154,705 as of the 2020 census, making it the most populous county in the Western Maryland region. [1] Its county seat and largest city is Hagerstown.
December 23, 2005. Boonsboro Historic District is a national historic district at Boonsboro, Washington County, Maryland, United States. The district includes 562 contributing elements. Its component buildings chronicle the town's development from its founding in 1792 through the mid 20th century. Most of the late 18th and early 19th century ...
Bordering the Potomac River from Georgetown, Washington, D.C. to Cumberland, Maryland. 39°35′53″N 77°49′40″W. / 39.598147°N 77.827693°W / 39.598147; -77.827693 ( Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park) Antietam, Cedar Grove, Hancock, and Sharpsburg. 15.
Washington County Closed-Circuit Educational Television Project demonstrated. The Washington County Closed-Circuit Educational Television Project was the first closed-circuit television network in aiding elementary school teaching by the use of television. [1] The project took place in Washington County, Maryland, and started in September 1956.
Point Lookout State Park is a public recreation area and historic preserve occupying Point Lookout, the southernmost tip of a peninsula formed by the confluence of Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac River in St. Mary's County, Maryland. The state park preserves the site of an American Civil War prisoner of war camp and the Point Lookout Light ...
History. Bakersville is an historic rural crossroads community located where one of the earliest east–west roads through western Maryland crossed the main north–south road from the Sharpsburg area. The region known as Carey's Crossroads for a then prominent landowner George Carey, had become central to the mostly German settlement taking ...
March 15, 1982. Wilson's Bridge is a bridge near Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland, United States. It originally carried the Hagerstown and Conococheague Turnpike, the National Road, across Conococheague Creek 7 miles (11 km) west of Hagerstown. The five-arched structure, the longest of the county's stone bridges, is 210 feet (64 m) in ...