Editing Port Deposit, Maryland (section)

===National Register of Historic Places listing===
[[File:VIEW FROM AN AMTRAK PASSENGER TRAIN ENROUTE FROM HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, TO BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, AND WASHINGTON... - NARA - 556852.jpg|thumb|right|Washington Hall as viewed from the Washington section of [[Amtrak]]'s ''[[Broadway Limited]]'' in 1974.]]
The entire town of Port Deposit was listed as a [[Historic districts in the United States|historic district]] on the [[List of Registered Historic Places in Maryland|National Register of Historic Places]] on May 23, 1978. Starting from Bainbridge Road on the south, the district extends about 1.4 miles north along US 222 to the quarry at the north end of town.<ref name="MHT map">{{cite web|title=Port Deposit Historic District (Boundary Map)|url=http://www.mht.maryland.gov/nr/map/nrb474.jpg |work=Maryland Historical Trust|access-date=July 22, 2013}}</ref>

The town has several impressive older buildings, many built of the local granite or brick. The oldest structures in the historic district date from 1725, with the majority built from 1830 through the 1890s.<ref name="A" />

The town remained largely unspoiled by new construction until the late 20th century, since there was little room for construction. The bulk of the older buildings line the main street and the, until recently, single side street built in the narrow space between the bluffs and the river. The bluffs have been terraced and stairways lead between streets. Adams Hall, formerly part of the Tome Institute, became the Town Hall; the only remains of the Tome Institute's former Washington Hall is the granite doorway that separates the Main Street from a parking lot today.<ref name="B" />