1899 Map of Patuxent

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Maryland Agril. College and the growing rail junctions of Hyattsville and Bladensburg anchor the northwestern corner of this late 19th-century survey. The landscape transitions from these early suburban nodes near the District of Columbia into the extensive agricultural and marshy reaches of the Patuxent River and the Zekiah Swamp. The industrial and leisure economy of the era is evident in the alignment of the Chesapeake Beach Railroad, which terminates at the massive Chesapeake Beach Pier on the Herring Bay shoreline.