POPE'S CREEK, MARYLAND

:''For Pope's Creek in Westmoreland County, Virginia, see Pope's Creek, Virginia.''
'Pope's Creek' is a stream in Charles County, Maryland a tributary of the Potomac River.

Contents

Power Plant

Railroad

References

Power Plant

The Potomac Electric Power Co. (PEPCO) built a power generating plant in the 1960's in Morgantown, Maryland near the mouth of Pope's Creek. This is sometimes referred to the Pope's Creek Power Plant.^[1]

Railroad

In 1853 the State of Maryland chartered the Baltimore and Potomac Rail Road Company to construct a railroad from the City of Baltimore via Upper Marlboro and Port Tobacco to a point on the Potomac River between Liverpool Point and the St. Marys River, and any branches of at most 20 miles (32 km) in length. This rail line is known as the "Pope's Creek Branch" and carried passenger service until 1949. Today it is primarily used to haul coal to the power plant.^[1]

References

1.
A CONDENSED HISTORY OF THE POPES CREEK LINE as interpreted by Dave Goldsmith

2.
A CONDENSED HISTORY OF THE POPES CREEK LINE as interpreted by Dave Goldsmith