Back Creek
Back Creek is a bay in Calvert County, Maryland. Back Creek is situated nearby to the neighborhood Oyster Bay at Solomons Island, as well as near Johnstown.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Drum Point Light and Calvert Marine Museum.
Drum Point Light
Museum
Photo: Pubdog, Public domain.
Drum Point Light Station also known as Drum Point Lighthouse is one of four surviving Chesapeake Bay screw-pile lighthouses. Originally located off Drum Point at the mouth of the Patuxent River, Maryland, United States, it is now an exhibit at the Calvert Marine Museum.
Calvert Marine Museum
Museum
Photo: Sampsonsimpson20, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Calvert Marine Museum is a museum located in Solomons, Maryland. The museum has three main themes: Among its exhibits are the Drum Point Light, the bugeye Wm.
J. C. Lore Oyster House
Historic building
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J. C. Lore Oyster House, also known as J. C. Lore and Sons, Inc, Seafood Packing Plant, is located at 14430 Solomons Island Road South, in Solomons, Calvert County, Maryland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Johnstown and Dowell.
Johnstown
Neighborhood
Johnstown is an unincorporated community in Calvert County, Maryland, United States. The historic Preston-on-the-Patuxent house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
Dowell
Locality
Dowell is a small, rural unincorporated community in Calvert County, Maryland, United States, located immediately north of Solomons. The city once had its own zip code, that being 20629, but it was changed to 20688, shared with Solomons.
Solomons
Photo: Pubdog, Public domain.
For the island chain in the South Pacific, see Solomon Islands. Solomons is a resort area in Southern Maryland, near the Patuxent Naval Air Station. Solomons within a two-hour drive of Washington, D.C., Baltimore, and Annapolis.
Back Creek
- Type: Bay
- Address: MD
- Category: body of water
- Location: Calvert County, Maryland, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
38.33346° or 38° 20′ 0″ northLongitude
-76.45995° or 76° 27′ 36″ westElevation
3 feet (1 metre)Open location code
87C58GMR+92OpenStreetMap ID
node 369000100OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bayGeoNames ID
4347667
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