I’ll stand by the privately owned. This is St Mary’s County and it’s one of the few counties in this shit hole of a state that’s conservative.
For the viewing audience (since I'm sure you already know it), "eminent domain" is a provision of law that states that the State can take over any piece of private property it wants to accomplish a public purpose.
Maryland could decide that it wanted to build a parking garage on the site and perfectly legally take the property for that purpose. We know that this is 100% legal because of the Kelo decision of SCOTUS a few years ago. If, later on, the state ran into a problem with the parking garage project, for example, they couldn't get the rest of the millions needed...well, the property still belongs to the state.
You'll see an example of this soon when they take the property needed to build the "Purple Line."
Well, at least St. Mary’s does not have any moques —yet. Do a search on “mosques in Southern Maryland”. Sickening.
Oh, and please watch your language; there are ladies present.
Gov. William Donald Schaefer once referred to the Eastern Shore as a `s***house’. IIRC it’s more conservative than the rest of Maryland.
But compared to Virginia, the state is pretty liberal. At least the “Baltimore Bulldozer” Barbara Mikulski is fixing to retire.
I used to go boating from Solomons, MD to open water. Anyone remember the old lighthouse near the Patuxent NAS?