Near Savage in Howard County, Maryland — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)

Explore your Chesapeake

Photographed by Adam Margolis, December 19, 2022

1. Explore your Chesapeake Marker

Inscription. Welcome to the Chesapeake region, a place that celebrates the natural and cultural heritage of the Chesapeake Bay and its rivers. Discover our proud traditions and precious resources at Chesapeake Bay Gateways.

The Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network united more than 150 parks, wildlife refuges, maritime museums, historic sites and water trails across the Bay watershed. Visit them all and enjoy the full meaning of the Chesapeake story.

Let us be your guide. Take a map of these special places, talk to a travel counselor and explore to a travel counselor and explore your Chesapeake!

Visit us at www.baygates.net or call 1-866-BAYWAYS.

Erected by Chesapeake Bays Gateways Network.

Topics. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: Parks & Recreational Areas.

Location. 39° 8.733′ N, 76° 50.7′ W. Marker is near Savage, Maryland, in Howard County. It can be reached from Interstate 95 at milepost 37, one mile south of Patuxent Freeway (Maryland Route 32). Marker 15 feet to the south of Maryland Travel Information building at the I-95 South Welcome Center and near flags. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Laurel MD 20723, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in Central Maryland. It is also in the American Mid-Atlantic. Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region, North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once one of the original Thirteen Colonies and also the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 2 miles of this marker, measured

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as the crow flies: Governor Harry R. Hughes (a few steps from this marker); Maryland Purple Heart Trail (within shouting distance of this marker); Explore Your Chesapeake (approx. 0.3 miles away); a different marker also named Maryland Purple Heart Trail (approx. 0.3 miles away); This Survey Point (approx. one mile away); Millworkers House (approx. 1.1 miles away); 9051-9053 Baltimore Street (approx. 1.2 miles away); Historic Savage Mill (approx. 1.2 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Savage.

Photographed by Adam Margolis, December 19, 2022

2. Explore your Chesapeake Marker

The marker is located to the right of image, facing in the direction of the image.

Credits. This page was last revised on January 14, 2024. It was originally submitted on January 12, 2019, by David Lassman of Waldorf, Maryland. This page has been viewed 349 times since then and 9 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on December 19, 2022, by Adam Margolis of Mission Viejo, California. • Bill Pfingsten was the editor who published this page.