42 GAZETTEER OF MARYLAND. [bill. 231. 
Holland; strait, a passage between Bloodsworth Island and South Marsh on bounds 
ary between Dorchester and Somerset counties. 
Holland Island; bar, a small island at entrance to Holland Straits in Dorchester 
County. A light-house is erected thereon. 
Holland Island; post village in Dorchester County. 
Hollands; small branch of Deer Creek in Harford County. 
Hollin Cliff; point in Calvert County, projecting into Patuxent River. 
Hollins; station in Baltimore County on the Northern Central Railway. 
Hollofield; station in Howard County on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 
Holly-grove; station in Worcester County on the Baltimore, Chesapeake and Atlantic 
Railway. 
Hollywood; post village in St. Mary County. 
Holton; point in Queen Anne County, projecting into Chester River. 
Homeland; station in Baltimore County on the Maryland and Pennsylvania 
Railroad. 
Hong-a; river, a long winding bay, an arm of Chesapeake Bay. 
Hood; point in Queen Anne County, projecting into Prospect Bay. 
Hoods Mills; post village in Carroll County on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 
Hooper; islands, a long narrow strip of almost entirely marshy land between Honga 
River and Chesapeake Bay in Dorchester County. 
Hooper; neck, a strip of land between Davis and Slaughter creeks in Dorchester 
County. 
Hooper; point in Dorchester County, projecting into Little Choptank River. 
Hoopersville; post village in Dorchester County. 
Hoop Pole; small mountain ridge in Garrett County. 
Hope; post village in Queen Anne County. 
Hopewell; post village in Somerset County on the New York, Philadelphia and 
Norfolk Railroad. 
Hopkins; creek, a small branch of Middle River in Baltimore County. 
Horn; point in Anne Arundel County, projecting into Annapolis Roads. 
Horn; point in Dorchester County, projecting into Choptank River. 
Horner; cove, a small inlet of West Fork of Langford Bay in Kent County. 
Horning-; run, a small branch of Bird River in Baltimore County. 
Horse; creek, a branch of Ape Hole Creek in Somerset County. 
Horse; small marshy island at mouth of Manklin Creek in Worcester County. 
Horse; small marshy island in Assaw T oman Bay in Worcester County. 
Horsebridge; creek, a small branch of Nassawango Creek in Wicomico County. 
Horse Landing; creek, a small tributary of Patuxent River in St. Mary County. 
Horsepen; branch, a small tributary of Prince George County. 
Horseshoe; bend, a small inlet of St. Mary River in St. Mary County. 
Horseshoe; point in Anne Arundel County, projecting into Chepapeake Bay. 
Horseshoe; point in St. Mary County, projecting into St. Mary River. 
Houstans; branch, a small tributary of Nanticoke River in Caroline County. 
Howard; county, formed out of the northwest corner of Anne Arundel County, is 
bounded on the north by Carroll County, east by Baltimore and Anne Arundel 
counties, and southwest by Prince George and Montgomery counties. The 
surface is undulating, being completely intersected with spring branches flowing 
into larger streams. The area is 240 square miles, of which more than three- 
fourths, or 110,546 acres, was under cultivation in 1900. The population for 
the same year was 16,715. The county seat is Ellicott City. The average mag- 
netic declination in the county in 1900 was 5° 15 / west. The annual rainfall 
commonly ranges between 45 and 50 inches, and the mean annual temperature 
between 50° and 55°. 
Howard; wharf on St. Clement Bay in St. Mary County. 
