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Joppa (/ ˈ dʒ ɒ p ə / JOP-ə) is a former colonial town and current planning region of Harford County, Maryland, United States.Joppa was founded as a British settlement on the Gunpowder River in 1707 and designated as the third county seat of Baltimore County in 1712.
The Old Joppa Site was added to the National Register of Historic Places as an archeological site in 1979. [3] [7] Joppa was the county seat of Baltimore County from 1712 to 1768. Present-day Harford County was part of Baltimore County until 1773. Joppa's "mile wide harbor" on the Gunpowder River could accommodate the largest ocean-going ships ...
Like Old Court Road, Joppa Road was improved on its state and county segments in the mid-1920s to form a circumferential paved highway around Baltimore. The state-maintained segment of the highway between Towson and Perry Hall was designated Maryland Route 148. MD 148 was widened in the mid-1930s and again in the late 1930s and 1940s.
One of Baltimore County's main cross-county roads on the north side of the county. Divided in central Towson into West and East Joppa Road. To the west of central Towson, Joppa Road is primarily a two-lane residential road. In Towson, a segment is one-way westbound. To the east of the Towson Circle, it is a four+ lane commercial corridor.
The segment from Fallston to MD 147 at Bagley, which was a county highway in 1930, was resurfaced in macadam in 1932. [6] [7] MD 152 was paved in macadam from US 40 (now MD 7) in Joppa north to Bagley in 1932 and 1933. [7] [8] The state highway was extended north from Rutledge to MD 146 near Taylor in 1938. [9] [10]
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Harford County, Maryland, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a map. [1]
Old Harford Road follows a curving path along relatively high land bordering streams that feed the upper Chesapeake Bay, including Chinquapin Run.This suggests its likely origin as an Indian trail that subsequently was adopted by settlers to convey farm products from northeastern Baltimore County, Harford County, and southern Pennsylvania to the port of Baltimore in the late 18th century.
Old Court Road is a state- and county-maintained highway in the U.S. state of Maryland.Including the adjacent road in Howard County known as Woodstock Road, the highway runs 15.4 miles (24.8 km) from Maryland Route 99 (MD 99) near Woodstock east to Joppa Road near Towson.