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Charles County, Maryland
Charles County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: La Plata
Year Organized: 1658
Square Miles: 461 |
Court House: P. O. Box 2150
County Government Building
La Plata, MD 20646-2150
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, second proprietor of the Maryland colony
Demographics:
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History
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Neighboring Counties:
- North: Prince George's County
- East: Calvert County
- Southeast: St. Mary's County
- South: Potomac River Estuary
- Southwest: King George County, Va.; Amherst County, Va.
Cities and Towns:
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- Indian Head |
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- La Plata
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- Port Tobacco |
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County Resources:
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County Resource Guide
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The history of our nation can be seen as a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names we've given our counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic
features of our country!"
But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history.
Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally,
act locally." |
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Penn Foster High School
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