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Eastport Yacht Club Lights Parade

The Eastport Yacht Club’s annual Lights Parade will be held on Saturday, December 8th, from 6:00pm to 8:00pm. For the parade, area boaters decorate their sailboats and powerboats with holiday lights and decorations. The lights can be seen along Spa Creek, the Severn River (near and opposite the USNA), and Ego Alley/City Dock.

The Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network

The Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network connects you with the Chesapeake Bay and its rivers through 150 exceptional parks, wildlife refuges, museums, sailing ships, historic communities, trails and more. Gateways are the special places where you can experience the authentic Chesapeake.

Banneker-Douglass Museum

The Banneker-Douglass Museum, named for Benjamin Banneker and Frederick Douglass, is dedicated to preserving Maryland’s African American heritage, and serves as the state’s official repository of African American material culture. The museum annually sponsors and hosts a variety of preservation, arts, and cultural lectures, workshops, performances, and other programs.

Maryland Watermen’s Association

The Maryland Watermen’s Association is dedicated to the interests of all who derive beauty & benefit from Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay Waters.

Charles Carroll House

Celebrating three generations and an urban cultural landscape that spans over 300 years, the Carroll House is a restoration-in-progress. This national historic landmark bears great historical significance to the state of Maryland and America as the home of Charles Carroll the Settler, first Attorney General of Maryland who settled here in 1706, his son, Charles Carroll of Annapolis, and his grandson, Charles Carroll of Carrollton (1737-1832).

Lights on the Bay

Many residents in the area know the holiday season has begun when they see the illumination of Sandy Point State Park. They have made driving through Anne Arundel Medical Center’s holiday light show “Lights on the Bay” at the park a family tradition for the past 10 years.

The “Lights on the Bay” event, which opens Nov. 18 and runs through Jan 1., features a scenic drive along the shore of the Chesapeake Bay where more than 60 spectacular animated and stationary displays illuminate the roadway.

Broadneck High School

Broadneck High School is located on Green Holly Drive. The Bruin is the school’s mascot. It is one of the newer schools in the county. It is known for the breadth of its Advanced Placement program. The Broadneck Bruins are rivals with the nearby Severna Park High School Falcons. BHS feeder middle schools are Severn River Middle School, and Magothy Middle School. The school is a part of the Anne Arundel County Public Schools system and is the district’s test school for the classes of Linear Algebra and Calculus III.

Cape St. Claire Volunteer Fire Company

Cape St. Claire Volunteer Fire Company is a combination Fire Department consisting of over 20 riding volunteers, supplemented by four 24-hour shifts of 4 career personnel per shift (shift begins at 0700 hours). CSCVFC operates with both county owned and volunteer owned equipment to include two engines, a tanker, a BLS unit, a chief’s car, and utility vehicle.