Third Cove

Third Cove is a bay in Calvert County, Maryland. Third Cove is situated nearby to the neighborhood Johnstown, as well as near the hamlet Town Creek.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Calvert Marine Museum and Drum Point Light.

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.

Governor Thomas Johnson Bridge

Bridge

Photo: Pubdog, Public domain.

The Governor Thomas Johnson Memorial Bridge is a 1.37-mile bridge in Maryland over the lower Patuxent River joining Calvert and St. Mary's counties. The bridge, named for the first governor of Maryland, Thomas Johnson, saw construction start in 1972 and opened to traffic on December 17, 1977.

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.

Third Cove

Type: Bay
Address: MD
Category: body of water
Location: Calvert County, Maryland, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

38.33262° or 38° 19′ 57″ north

Longitude

-76.47551° or 76° 28′ 32″ west

Elevation

7 feet (2 metres)

Open location code

87C58GMF+2Q

OpenStreetMap ID

node 369001663

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=bay

GeoNames ID

4371236

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