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12/09/07
If you turn off Muddy Creek Road onto Plantation Boulevard in West River, you find yourself in yet another suburban enclave carved out of the swampy woods. 
J. Henson - The Capital
Dean Hall shows a document relating to his property. In 1781, the property hosted Anne Arundel County's only Revolutionary War land action.Find Us On Facebook
Lined with relatively new family homes, the blacktop offers no hint that the land around it once witnessed the only Revolutionary War land action in Anne Arundel County.
On the night of March 31, 1781, about 100 British marines landed on Chalk Point in the West River and raided Stephen Steward's Shipyard, where swift gunboats were being built to harass King George's warships on the Chesapeake Bay. The marines burned part of the house, a nearly complete gunboat, and much of...
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