Mallows Bay-Widewater Historic and Archeological District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
A shipwreck at Mallows Bay, February 2011
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Location
Off Sandy Point Charles County, Maryland[1]
Coordinates
38°28′21.4″N77°16′6.9″W / 38.472611°N 77.268583°W / 38.472611; -77.268583 (Mallows Bay, Potomac River, Maryland)[1]
NRHP reference No.
15000173
Added to NRHP
April 24, 2015
Mallows Bay is a small bay on the Maryland side of the Potomac River in Charles County, Maryland, United States. The bay is the location of what is regarded as the "largest shipwreck fleet in the Western Hemisphere"[2][3] and is described as a "ship graveyard."[4]
Mallows Bay was declared a National Marine Sanctuary on September 9, 2019.[5]
^ abU.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Mallows Bay
^Shomette, Donald G. (Winter 2001). "The Ghost Fleet of Mallows Bay". The Maryland Natural Resource. Archived from the original on April 20, 2011. Retrieved December 19, 2010.
^Shomette, Donald G. (Winter 1999). "The Ghost Fleet of Mallows Bay". Invention & Technology Magazine. 14 (3). Archived from the original on December 3, 2008. Retrieved December 19, 2010.
^United States Coast Pilot. Vol. 3 (43rd ed.). Washington, D.C.: National Ocean Service. 2010. p. 313. Retrieved May 5, 2010.
^"Designation of Mallows Bay-Potomac River National Marine Sanctuary". www.federalregister.gov. September 9, 2019.
of Mallows Potomac National Marine Sanctuary in Nanjemoy, Maryland Friends of Mallows Potomac National Marine Sanctuary Facebook page MallowsBay - Potomac...
Look up Mallow or mallow in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mallow or mallows may refer to: Malvaceae, a family of plants; in particular the following...
Fleet, managed by the US MARAD Ghost Fleet of MallowsBay, a reference to the sunken ships in MallowsBay after World War I Ghost Fleet of Truk Lagoon...
world’s largest ship graveyard. Unlike the arrival en masse of ships at MallowsBay, here the number of craft has built up over time, as corrupt officials...
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sites along the Chesapeake Bay, the Potomac River, and the Patuxent River are also tourist attractions. These include MallowsBay and Solomon's Island. The...
also extended their line to include HugMees, Squish-Doos, Heroes, Flip-A-Mallows, Squishville, Mystery Squad, Micromallows, and Stackables. Squishmallows...
The Mallows, also known as Alida Chanler Emmet and Christopher Temple Emmet Estate, is a historic home located at Head of the Harbor in Suffolk County...
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National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-12-16. "Tugboat sinks in Lake Superior Bay". Twin Cities. 2009-03-24. Retrieved 2023-04-27. "U.S.S. Essex". Lake Superior...
in 1924 to 566 acres (2.29 km2) of company owned farmland surrounding MallowsBay in Maryland. The EFC was renamed the U.S. Shipping Board Merchant Fleet...
Columbia University Press. Ridley, Evan; Haas, Meredith (April 1, 2016). "MallowsBay Ship Graveyard a Map for Rhode Island". Rhode Island Sea Grant. Retrieved...
marine sanctuary created in the United States since the designation of MallowsBay, Maryland, as a sanctuary in 2019. Upon designating the area as a sanctuary...
Malvaceae (/mælˈveɪsiˌaɪ, -siːˌiː/), or the mallows, is a family of flowering plants estimated to contain 244 genera with 4225 known species. Well-known...
continues north parallel to the Potomac River and passes to the east of MallowsBay. The highway follows Riverside Road to its northern end at Chicamuxen...
maritimus) and marsh-mallow (Althaea officinalis) and all the wildlife they support. A primary reason for the listing is the presence in the bay of the twait...
species of flowering plant in the mallow family, known by the common names dwarf checkerbloom, Greek mallow, prairie mallow and dwarf checkermallow. Sidalcea...
Robert Herb Truelove Kidneywort, or Anemone hepatica Lady's Mantle Mallows Marsh Mallows, or Althaea officinalis Mercury (plant) Mints Motherwort Mugwort...
in horticulture. Common names include redvein abutilon, red vein Indian mallow, redvein flowering maple, Chinese-lantern and red vein Chinese lanterns...
platform was extended during the Mallow-Tralee mini-CTC scheme very little of the main platform is covered. There is also a bay serving the south face of the...
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