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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.
Whitaker's Mill Historic District is a national historic district near Joppa, Harford County, Maryland, United States.It includes three early- to mid-19th-century buildings: the 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story rubble stone Whitaker's Mill built in 1851, the 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story rubble stone miller's house, and the log-and-frame Magness House, begun about 1800 as the miller's house for the first mill on the site.
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 ...
Soil collected from George Armwood's lynching in Maryland sits inside a glass jar next to 37 others within an exhibit in the Reginald F. Lewis Museum in Baltimore.
Location of Harford County in Maryland. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Harford County, Maryland. 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 ...
Olney, originally patented as Prospect, is a historic home and farm complex located at Joppa, Harford County, Maryland.It is a 264-acre (1.07 km 2) working pony farm with a collection of 15 structures ranging in style, use, and elegance.
This list of museums in Maryland encompasses museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Jerusalem Mill Village is a living history museum that spans the 18th through early 20th centuries. One of the oldest and most intact mill villages in the U.S. state of Maryland, Jerusalem is located in Harford County, along the Little Gunpowder Falls River. It also serves as the headquarters of the Gunpowder Falls State Park. [2]