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.

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″ north

Longitude

-76.45995° or 76° 27′ 36″ west

Elevation

3 feet (1 metre)

Open location code

87C58GMR+92

OpenStreetMap ID

node 369000100

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=bay

GeoNames ID

4347667

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