Port Tobacco Historic District is a national

historic district A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains historic building, older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal p ...

Port Tobacco Port Tobacco, officially Port Tobacco Village, is a town in Charles County, Maryland, United States. The population was 13 at the 2010 census, making Port Tobacco the smallest incorporated town in Maryland. Overview This was historically the te ...

Charles County, Maryland Charles County is a county located in the U.S. state of Maryland. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 166,617. The county seat is La Plata. The county was named for Charles Calvert (1637–1715), third Baron Baltimore. T ...

. It is located along both sides of Chapel Point Road immediately south of

Maryland Route 6 Maryland Route 6 (MD 6) (sometimes called Port Tobacco Road) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. The state highway runs from a cul-de-sac, dead end at the Potomac River in Riverside, Charles County, Maryland, Riverside east to Ma ...

. It includes five surviving 18th- and 19th-century buildings; four have been privately restored as single-family residences. The fifth was renovated for use as a children's museum. Two of these buildings, Chimney House and Stagg Hall (listed separately), are immediately adjacent to one another at one corner of the town square. In 1972, the 1821–1892 courthouse was reconstructed on its original site for use as a museum of local history. Other buildings include several private residences built after 1940. A brick wellhouse was erected in 1958 to commemorate the county's tercentenary. Approximately 90 percent of the historic features of the community constitute

archeological Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscapes. Archaeology ...

sites, nearly all of which have remained undisturbed by later development. It was added to the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...

in 1989.

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Image:Port Tobacco Courthouse Rear Sept 09.JPG, Port Tobacco Courthouse, Rear View, September 2009 Image:Port Tobacco Cemetery Sept 09.JPG, Port Tobacco Cemetery, September 2009 Image:Port Tobacco Marker Sept 09.JPG, Port Tobacco Historic Marker, September 2009 Image:Port Tobacco Schoolhouse Sept 09.JPG, Port Tobacco Schoolhouse, September 2009

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External links

*, including photo dated 1988, at Maryland Historical Trust
Boundary Map of the Port Tobacco Historic District, Charles County
at Maryland Historical Trust Historic districts in Charles County, Maryland Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland National Register of Historic Places in Charles County, Maryland {{CharlesCountyMD-NRHP-stub