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The four photos were taken in Hughesville, Charles County, Maryland. The first photo is for Serenity Farm, Inc. More than 4,000 enemy British troops camped on this property and in this valley and surrounding hills August 19, 1814. The second photo is the historical 1812 marker Enemy Camp which is about this encampment. The third photo is on the grounds of the Indian Creek Natural Resource where the British camped during the War of 1812. The fourth photo is the historical marker Solid Ground about the War of 1812 and the encampment on this property.

FROM WIKIPEDIA

"Hughesville is a census-designated place (CDP) in Charles County, Maryland, United States. The population was 2,197 at the 2010 census. Truman's Place was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 11.2 square miles (29.1 km2), of which 11.2 square miles (28.9 km2) is land and 0.08 square miles (0.2 km2), or 0.69%, is water.[4]

Hughesville was a tobacco market town. The former tobacco warehouses are now used for second-hand thrift stores and boutique gift and craft shops.

Because Hughesville, though small, is considered the strategic geographic center of the tri-county Southern Maryland region, it houses institutions such as the headquarters for the Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative, an animal shelter, an economic development council, a board of realtors, and a homeless women's shelter, which serve the tri-county area. There is also a Girl Scout camp. The town has no traditional grid-layout streets, but consists of merely businesses along the highway and some very small outlying housing developments. It was announced in 2013 that the College of Southern Maryland is building their fourth campus in the town.

A 5.5-MW solar farm near Hughesville generates enough power for 600 homes, and offsets the pollution of 1,600 cars."

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