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Old Saint John's Church Cemetery

Memorials	:	11
Location	:	Joppatowne, Harford County, USA
Description	:	There are two tombstones remaining from the early days of Joppa, with most having been moved to Kingsville by the families when the Church moved. Those that remained were destroyed over time by Mother Nature and farming. The site of Old Joppa, including the cemetery, became a farm for the next 150 years after the demise of the town. The town of Joppa was founded in 1707 and was a major port for the shipping of tobacco, cotton was not a crop grown here. The site of Old Joppa lies at the head of the Gunpowder River, not at the confluence... Read More	There are two tombstones remaining from the early days of Joppa, with most having been moved to Kingsville by the families when the Church moved. Those that remained were destroyed over time by Mother Nature and farming. The site of Old Joppa, including the cemetery, became a farm for the next 150 years after the demise of the town. The town of Joppa was founded in 1707 and was a major port for the shipping of tobacco, cotton was not a crop grown here. The site of Old Joppa lies at the head of the Gunpowder River, not at the confluence of the River and Chesapeake Bay. Joppa was the County Seat of Baltimore County from 1712 through 1768 when it moved to Baltimore Town (City today). The town never became a “Ghost Town,” as the business owners and landowners left Benjamin Rumsey purchased their lots and dismantled whatever they did not take with them. He owned all of the former town lots by the time of his death in 1808. Baltimore County was not “redistricted” as you word it, but essentially split in two to create Harford County in 1774 after years of citizen complaints of having to travel great distances to the new Courthouse in Baltimore town. There were no hurricanes in Maryland in 1957. Those tombstones not removed to the Kingsville Church had long since been destroyed by Mother Nature and farming. Only two remain today and one is completely unreadable. The original Church site was excavated in 1992 and pieces of tombstones mortared together to make a cairn. There are no old pilings or evidence of the old wharves left in the river today. The harbor area as it was in the days of old Joppa has been all but destroyed by years of sand & gravel mining in the area and the one big hurricane that came through in 1972, hurricane Agnes. There is however, one building from the days of Old Joppa still standing, the Rumsey mansion. Built ca. 1720-1724, enlarged sometime after 1770 and restored in 1970-71.

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