A Beautiful and Sublime Sunday In Port Deposit, Maryland!
Today, I will be showing you some photos that I took on a recent drive (and brief stop) through the historic town of Port Deposit in Cecil County, Maryland.
Port Deposit is a small town located along the east bank of the Susquehanna River. The town was placed on the Historic Register in 1978. Driving along Susquehanna River Road, you can see this old military tank that is parked outside the VFW Post 8185.
The town was built on large stores of granite and had many quarries at one time. Port Deposit granite was used in many structures in the town and other cities on the East Coast. The next few photos were taken on Main Street. These photos were taken from the car as we weren't able to park but you can see quite a bit of granite was used in some of the structures. Unfortunately, Port Deposit has seen a lot of floods throughout the years and we saw a few of the houses vacant and boarded up. I guess after so many times of being flooded, the owners gave up or maybe they were older and moved on to a safer and drier area.
This church coming up on the left (sorry, I couldn't get a better photo) is the Tome Memorial United Methodist Church named after resident Jacob Tome. Jacob Tome grew up poor but became the first millionaire in Cecil County. He was a philanthropist who founded the Tome School For Boys and donated millions to charity.
This building, on the corner, used to be a bank but closed many years ago. It is currently home to the USNTC Bainbridge Museum (United States Naval Training Center). The building was also constructed with Port Deposit granite.
We were able to pull into the parking lot of the Marina Park which is where I took the first photo in my post.
In this photo you can see the I95 bridge and the Route 40 bridge. There are also two railway bridges but they are hard to make out.
We saw a lot of geese both in the water and out!
We spent about half an hour enjoying the views and watching the geese before we headed out. It was a little chilly with a bit of wind but the temperature was pretty nice for March. We took the Route 40 bridge to go home and I made this little gif to end my post.
Thanks for coming along with me and...
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By the water and such a quaint looking place thanks for taking us along with you through this post ;)
Thanks Jay!! It really is quaint! I think there are less than 800 people that live in the town.
Sound slike the kind of pace i would love ot live in the total opposite of where i work now lOL
Nice day trip. Does the salt water come up to Fort Deposit area?
Thank you @manorvillemike! They flood a lot when too many of the flood gates have to be opened at the Conowingo Dam.
To provide electricity these dams do a lot of harm....
Conowingo has replaced a free-flowing section of the Susquehanna River with a 14 mile long, 9,000 acre reservoir, fundamentally altering the river’s ecology. Conowingo – along with the four other hydropower facilities on the river – has changed seasonal river flow, blocked the migration of shad, herring, eel, and other fish, destroyed fragile aquatic habitat, devastated the mussel communities that naturally filtered the Susquehanna’s water, killed millions of fish caught in hydroelectric turbines, and altered the river’s natural ability to transport nutrients and sediment.
Conowingo also traps polluted sediment from the Susquehanna River in its reservoir. There are nearly 200 million tons of sediment, nutrients, and other pollutants from the Susquehanna River trapped behind the dam. During floods caused by large storms like Hurricane Agnes and Tropical Storm Lee, some of the sediment trapped behind the dam is scooped up along with the other sediment flowing down the Susquehanna River and sent downstream to the Bay. This sediment trapped behind Conowingo has an impact on upper Chesapeake Bay water quality.
Taken from ... http://www.conowingodam.org/issues/river-dam/
I've seen a lot of the back up behind the dam when we drive over. I don't know what they do with it but I have to think that they do clean some of it out because it is really blocked up with trees and other junk. Maryland has a lot of conservation organizations for the Bay but I guess like most things there is good and bad. I will have to try to read more about it as I forget so much that I use to know.
I forget what I just forgot :-)
Lmao..that's me! :)
The photos still turned out quite well.
The place has an Interesting small town charm.
Thanks so much @ace108!! It definitely does and I love when we get to visit up there!
You're welcome.
Happy Sunday @deerjay! :-)
Such beautiful photos! I just love the
one 4th from the bottom with all the
bridges! I wonder why it's called
Fort Deposit, do the floods deposit
a lot of silt in that area?
Hi @shasta and thank you!! It's called Port Deposit because a lot of ships would come into the port and deposit their loads..at least, I think that is how the story goes.
They've had some pretty bad floods and minor ones so I would imagine so. I love to visit but don't think I could live there..too much flooding for me but I guess a lot of the people who stay are used to it and it is a trade off to live in such a pretty place.
What a great day trip Dee. Interesting town and the bridges are awesome. Great shot of the geese. U&R
Thanks Jo!! It was a nice excursion and I was happy we were able to stop by the water. ;)
Howdy deerjay! This is a great post filled with great photos and interesting and educational as well, very interesting name for the town too!
Thank you @janton!!
my pleasure deerjay, God bless you!
Beautiful photography
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Thanks so much @offgridlife!!
Beautiful blue skies, and a tank! That’s not something you see every day, you got some wonderful photos of this small town - it’s very interesting seeing all these buildings.
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Thanks so much @c0ff33a!! I'm glad I got an okay shot of that tank. It is possibly the coolest lawn ornament ever..lol!