St. Augustine 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 ...

Cecil County Cecil County is a county located in the U.S. state of Maryland at the northeastern corner of the state, bordering both Pennsylvania and Delaware. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 103,725. The county seat is Elkton. The ...

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, United States. Land rights to the area were granted to merchant

Augustine Herman Augustine Herman, First Lord of Bohemia Manor (Czech: Augustin Heřman, c. 1621 – September 1686) was a Kingdom of Bohemia, Bohemian European colonization of the Americas, explorer, merchant and cartography, cartographer who lived in New Amsterd ...

by Lord Baltimore prior to 1686 but the Herman family was never able to lay proper claim to the title.

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was listed on the

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in 1984.

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