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White Marsh or Whitemarsh can refer to: * White Marsh, Maryland, United States * White Marsh, the location of Sacred Heart Church (Bowie, Maryland) *Whitemarsh Township, Pennsylvania, United States ** Battle of White Marsh, a Revolutionary War battle * White Marsh, Virginia White Marsh is an unincorporated community in Gloucester County, in the U. S. state of Virginia. White Marsh is located on U.S. Route 17 south of Gloucester Courthouse. White Marsh has a post office with ZIP code 23183. Abingdon Church and th ..., a community in Gloucester County See also * * * * Whitmarsh, surname {{geodis ...
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White Marsh, Maryland
White Marsh is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. The population was 9,513 at the 2010 census. White Marsh is a northeast suburb of Baltimore. History In 1965, the largely undeveloped northeast corridor was identified by Baltimore County as the preferred site for intensive development. A town center was proposed to be located west of Belair Road at the planned intersection of White Marsh and Walther Boulevards. The Harry T. Campbell Sons Corporation owned thousands of acres of land to the east of the planned town center, on both sides of Interstate 95. The land was bought in the 1930s and was being mined of its natural sand and gravel deposits. The Campbell family merged its sand and gravel business with an international building supply company. A new family-owned entity was charged with rejuvenating the family's property in northeast Baltimore County, which was covered with deep craters and pits. In January 19 ...
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Sacred Heart Church (Bowie, Maryland)
Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Bowie, Maryland is a Catholic church established in 1729. The church was originally built on part of the Jesuit estate known as White Marsh Manor. History Sacred Heart Church had been better known as White Marsh after the long stretch of sandy loam between the church and the Patuxent River and marsh. This soil contains a significant amount of mica which appears sparkling white. Beginning with the Protestant Revolution in Maryland in 1689, Catholics were prohibited to worship publicly and the Catholic Church was not allowed to own land. The original patent to the "White Marsh" property was granted by the authority of Charles Calvert II in 1722 to James Carroll. On February 12, 1728, Carroll bequeathed of White Marsh, then known as ''Carroll's Burgh'', to the Jesuits at St. Thomas Manor in the vicinity of Port Tobacco, Maryland. During this time, while Catholics could not worship publicly, they could do so privately and were able to bui ...
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Whitemarsh Township, Pennsylvania
Whitemarsh Township is a Home rule municipality in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. It retains its former classification of "Township" in its official name despite being a home rule municipality. The population was 17,349 at the 2010 census. Whitemarsh is adjacent to the neighborhood of Andorra in the Roxborough section of Philadelphia, and is bordered in Montgomery County by Springfield, Upper Dublin, Whitpain, and Plymouth townships, and by Conshohocken Borough. It is also bordered by the Schuylkill River, which separates it from Lower Merion Township. Communities within Whitemarsh Township include: Barren Hill; Lafayette Hill; part of Miquon, which straddles Whitemarsh and Springfield townships, Spring Mill; part of Plymouth Meeting (which straddles Whitemarsh and Plymouth townships); and part of Fort Washington, some of which is in Whitemarsh, but which is chiefly in Upper Dublin Township. History Whitemarsh was originally inhabited by the Lenni Lenape ...
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Battle Of White Marsh
The Battle of White Marsh or Battle of Edge Hill was a battle of the Philadelphia campaign of the American Revolutionary War fought December 5–8, 1777, in the area surrounding Whitemarsh Township, Pennsylvania. The battle, which took the form of a series of skirmish actions, was the last major engagement of 1777 between Kingdom of Great Britain, British and Thirteen Colonies, American forces. George Washington, Commander-in-chief#United States, commander-in-chief of the American revolutionary forces, spent the weeks after his defeat at the Battle of Germantown encamped with the Continental Army in various locations throughout Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, Montgomery County, just north of British-occupied Philadelphia. In early November, the Americans established an entrenched position approximately north of Philadelphia along the Wissahickon Creek and Sandy Run (Wissahickon Creek), Sandy Run, primarily situated on several hills between Old York Road and Bethlehem Pike. From ...
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White Marsh, Virginia
White Marsh is an unincorporated community in Gloucester County, in the U. S. state of Virginia. White Marsh is located on U.S. Route 17 south of Gloucester Courthouse. White Marsh has a post office with ZIP code 23183. Abingdon Church and the Fairfield Site are listed on the National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v .... References Unincorporated communities in Virginia Unincorporated communities in Gloucester County, Virginia {{GloucesterCountyVA-geo-stub ...
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