Ruthsburg is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

in Queen Anne's County,

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, United States. Ruthsburg made national headlines in 2009, when the proposed creation of a

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training center spurred unexpected controversy between those who believed it would have devastated neighboring

Tuckahoe State Park Tuckahoe State Park is a public recreation area along Tuckahoe Creek in Caroline and Queen Anne's counties on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, United States. Adkins Arboretum, a garden and preserve maintaining over 600 native plant species, o ...

, the

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, wildlife, agriculture, communities, and the region as a whole and those who believed it would lead to economic benefits for local businesses, including local firms involved in the construction of the facility, A total of 500 new jobs were forecasted to be brought by the facility, and additional new people brought to the area as transfers who would then be participants in the local economy. In mid-2010, the State Department scrapped plans for the facility."Some in Md. town call anti-terrorism training plan a dud,"
''The Washington Post'', by Aaron C. Davis, February 23, 2010 Hawkins Pharsalia and the Thomas House are listed on the

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