Gumbottom Branch Valentine Creek Old Place Creek (Fox Creek) Browns Cove (on Little Round Bay) Maynadier Creek & Deep Ditch Branch Hopkins Creek & Davids Run Brewer Pond & Arthurs Run Brewer Creek & Howards Branch Clements Creek & Hockley Branch Saltworks Creek & Cabin Branch Martins Pond (Whitehurst Lake) Luce Creek & Howard Creek Cove of Cork Weems Creek & Cowhide Branch Shady Lake College Creek (Dorsey Creek) & Peters Cove Spa Creek (Spaw Creek, Carrols Creek) & Acton Cove, Hawkins Cove Back Creek Lake Ogleton Providence Providence, the first colonial settlement in Anne Arundel County, was founded in the fall and winter of 1649–1650 at the beginning of a mass migration of a group of Puritans and non-conformists from Lower Norfolk County in Virginia to primarily the north side of the mouth of the Severn. It faded away after the 1680s when Annapolis came into favor and, in 1694, became Maryland's capital. This "lost town" of Providence was originally thought to be limited to the Carr Creek and Greenbury Point area across the river from Annapolis on what are now the grounds of Naval Station Annapolis (renamed North Severn Complex.) More recent archaeological research has uncovered homes of this scattered settlement further to the north and northeast as well, on the southern half of the Broadneck Peninsula, especially near Whitehall Creek. References NOAA Chart of Severn River Severn River history from Anne Arundel County web site A. T. Davison and C. B. Rucker. Gems of the Severn (Severn River Commission, Annapolis, MD, 1988) Available from Scenic Rivers Land Trust, http://www.srlt.org Further reading Maryland DNR's Surf Your Watershed: Severn River Severn River Association Severn Riverkeeper Severn River Commission College Creek watershed assessment from 2007 Severn River area publications and forums Annapolis Forum: Electronic Discussion for Annapolis MD Area Folk The Capital Newspaper Environment section for Severn River and Chesapeake Bay Tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay Rivers of Maryland Annapolis, Maryland Rivers of Anne Arundel County, Maryland