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Website Updates:
Oct 2011:
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Biography: William Brent - Contributed
by Therman Kellar
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Biography: Joseph Lancaster Brent - Transcribed by Andrea Stawski
Pack
APR 2011: 1821 Court News,
HAMILTON-SPALDING marriage announcement - Contributed by K. Torp
Nov 2010: STONE, HANSON, LEIDLER, SMITH, FOWKE, MCPHERSON, LEE, HOPKENSON,
HARRISON, HAWKINS, CHAPMAN, COURTS, DAVIS, LEE, DENT, HAMMOND obit;
MILLER-WEBSTER, LINGAN-HANSON marriage announcements
2010: WPA Slave Narrative
Aug 2009: Queries, Death notices, Marriages
31 Oct 2007: 1777-1790 Marriages; bio, 1790 Census |
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County Background
Charles County was created in 1658 by an Order
in Council. It is not to be confused with an earlier Charles County
(1650-1653) known as Old Charles County. The County was named for Charles
Calvert (1637-1715), 3rd Lord Baltimore. Calvert lived in Maryland
from 1661 until he returned to England in 1684. He was Proprietor of
the Maryland colony from 1675 to 1689, when he lost his right to govern.
From 1692 until Calvert's death in 1715, Maryland was governed as a royal
colony.
[Source:
Charles County, Maryland,
Government]
Current Statistics
Land Area: 461 square miles
Water Area: 182 square miles
Total Area: 643 square miles
Population: 120,546 (2000); 140,764
(2008)
[Source:
U. S. Census
Bureau]
Cities
Indian Head (incorporated 1920)
La Plata (incorporated 1888)
Port Tobacco Village (incorporated
1888)
Unincorporated Census-Designated Places
Bennsville -- Bryans Road -- Hughesville
-- Potomac Heights -- Saint Charles -- Waldorf
Other unincorporated places not listed as Census-Designated Places but known
in the area include:
Bel Alton -- Benedict -- Bryantown --
Cobb Island -- Dentsville -- Faulkner -- Ironsides -- Issue -- Malcolm --
Marbury -- Morgantown -- Mount Victoria -- Nanjemoy -- Newburg -- Pisgah
-- Pomfret -- Pomonkey -- Popes Creek -- Ripley -- Rison -- Rock Point --
Swan Point -- Welcome -- White Plains
Surrounding
Counties
Calvert
County (east)
Prince George's
County (north)
St. Mary's County
(southeast)
Fairfax
County, Virginia (northwest)
King
George County, Virginia (south)
Prince
William County,
Virginia (west)
Stafford County, Virginia (west)
Westmoreland
County, Virginia (southeast)
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