[Fiji Hill]

St Mary’s County was very remote and rural until fairly recently when the US Navy transferred thousands of its personnel from Northern VA to the Patuxent Naval Air base.

That influx would dramatically affect the county’s demographic, but I’d never have suspected the change would be in this direction. A few decades ago St Mary’s seemed heavily populated with genuine Amish farmers.

Tourist brochures touting St. Mary's County's fruit stands, mom-and-pop eateries, and St.Mary's City, where colonial life is re-enacted make the area look like a bastion of traditional American culture, not wacky political correctness.

[EDINVA]

That was how I knew it, but haven’t been down there in @ 20 years, well before the Navy move.
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