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Dunkirk is located in northwestern Calvert County at (38.713499, −76.670070 Its western border is the Patuxent River , which is also the Prince George's County line. Maryland Route 4 passes through the center of Dunkirk, leading northwest 10 miles (16 km) to Upper Marlboro and south 14 miles (23 km) to Prince Frederick , the Calvert County seat.
Location of Calvert County in Maryland. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Calvert County, Maryland.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Calvert County, Maryland, United States.
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The road was completed from MD 2 (now MD 765I) at Mount Harmony to about 1 mile (1.6 km) west of the beach by 1921. [5] Chesapeake Beach Road was completed to the beach by 1923. [6] Construction on a graveled westward extension of MD 260 to Southern Maryland Boulevard, which was then MD 416, south of Dunkirk was started in 1930 and completed by ...
Sunderland is an unincorporated community located at the crossroads of Maryland routes 2, 4, and 262, Dalrymple and Pushaw Station roads in Calvert County, Maryland, United States, approximately five miles south of Dunkirk and 10 miles north of Prince Frederick.
During World War II, the neighborhood's "Victory Gardens" had occupied much of what now comprises Murdock Road, to the north of Dunkirk. Despite the population density of Rodgers Forge, until the early 1960s, just to the west, a small working farm of a few acres with livestock remained at the junction of Stevenson Lane and Bellona Avenue.
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The name of Dunkirk derives from West Flemish dun(e) 'dune' or 'dun' and kerke 'church', thus 'church in the dunes'. [6] A smaller town 25 km (15 miles) farther up the Flemish coast originally shared the same name, but was later renamed Oostduinkerke(n) in order to avoid confusion.