Solomons Island

Solomons Island is an island in Calvert County, Maryland. Solomons Island is situated nearby to the neighborhood Johnstown, as well as near Rousby Hall.

Places of Interest

Highlights include J. C. Lore Oyster House and Calvert Marine Museum.

J. C. Lore Oyster House

Historic building

Photo: Pubdog, Public domain.

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.

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.

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.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Johnstown and Solomons.

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.

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.

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 Island

Type: Island
Also known as: “Bournes Island”, “Solomon Island”, and “Somervells Island”
Categories: locality and landform
Location: Calvert County, Maryland, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

38.32406° or 38° 19′ 27″ north

Longitude

-76.46073° or 76° 27′ 39″ west

Elevation

3 feet (1 metre)

Open location code

87C58GFQ+JP

OpenStreetMap ID

node 358241712

OpenStreetMap feature

place=island

GeoNames ID

4369876

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