McComas Institute

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McComas Institute
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Nearest city Joppa, Maryland
Coordinates 39°28′2″N76°21′30″W / 39.46722°N 76.35833°W / 39.46722; -76.35833 Coordinates: 39°28′2″N76°21′30″W / 39.46722°N 76.35833°W / 39.46722; -76.35833
Area1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built1867 (1867)
NRHP reference # 80001819 [1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 8, 1980

McComas Institute is a historic school located at Joppa, Harford County, Maryland, United States. The school was built in 1867, and is a one-story frame structure with a gable roof, five bays long and three bays wide, and resting on a stone foundation. It is one of three schools erected in the area by the Freedmen's Bureau after the Civil War. [2]

School Institution for the education of students by teachers

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Joppa, Maryland Unincorporated community in Maryland, United States

Joppa is a former colonial town and current planning region of Harford County, Maryland. Joppa was founded as a British settlement on the Gunpowder River in 1707 and designated as the third county seat of Baltimore County in 1712. The original boundaries of Baltimore County were defined in 1659 and contained all of modern day Baltimore County, Baltimore City, Harford and Cecil Counties and parts of Howard, Carroll, Anne Arundel and Kent Counties. The settlement was named for the Biblical town of Jaffa in the ancient Holy Land of modern day Israel. Joppa's harbor began to silt in due to clearcutting and farming upriver and coupled with multiple outbreaks of diseases such as smallpox and malaria, the county seat was moved to the growing, deep water port of Baltimore in 1768. Joppa's population would decline rapidly thereafter and businesses left for more prosperous environments in the new Baltimore Town.

Harford County, Maryland County in the United States

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The McComas Institute was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service.
  2. Susan M. Deeney and Natalie Shivers (September 1979). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: McComas Institute" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-01-01.

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