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- ↑ Lake Straus: "Baltimore Speeds Scout Camp Work". Washington Post. Jul 22, 1947.:B1Healey, David (Sep 18, 2012). Great Storms of the Chesapeake. Arcadia. p. 160.
- ↑ U.S. Department of Agriculture U.S. National Forest Service. Northeast Area. , accessed March 1, 2013
- ↑ Maryland Department of Natural Resources. Annapolis, MD. "Broad Creek." Archived June 16, 2011, at the Wayback Machine Maryland's Surf Your Watershed--Watershed Profile. August 2000.
- United States Geological Survey. Reston, VA. "Broad Creek." Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). Accessed 2010-08-30.
