Bristol, Maryland

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Bristol is an unincorporated community in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States.{{cite web|url=http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic|title=Geographic Names Information System|date=2009-01-29|work= Bristol (Populated Place)|publisher=U.S. Geological Survey}} Jug Bay Wetlands Sanctuary (a stop on the Patuxent Water Trail){{cite web|url=http://www.patuxentwatertrail.org/resources.php|title=Patuxent Water Trail|accessdate=2013-02-20|publisher=Patuxent Riverkeeper|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120923131135/http://www.patuxentwatertrail.org/resources.php|archivedate=2012-09-23}} and the colonial town of Pig Point (alternately referred to as Bristol Landing and Leon at times) are on the Patuxent River waterfront portion of Bristol. Pig Point saw War of 1812 action{{cite web|url=http://starspangledtrail.net/things-to-do/a-guide-to-public-archeology-on-the-patuxent-river/pig-point/|title=Star-Spangled History|accessdate=2013-02-20|publisher=National Park Service Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130630141754/http://starspangledtrail.net/things-to-do/a-guide-to-public-archeology-on-the-patuxent-river/pig-point/|archive-date=2013-06-30|url-status=dead}} and was the county's largest steamboat port on the Patuxent in the mid-19th century.{{cite web|url=http://www.aacounty.org/PlanZone/SAP/Resources/SouthCountySAP_Final.pdf|title=South County Draft Small Area Plan|accessdate=2015-02-26|publisher=Anne Arundel County|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110035415/http://www.aacounty.org/PlanZone/SAP/Resources/SouthCountySAP_Final.pdf|archivedate=2013-11-10}} Pig Point is a very significant Native American Early Archaic Period archaeological site.{{cite web|url=http://www.losttownsproject.org/projects/Pig%20Point/overview.html|title=Pig Point|author=Al Luckenbach|accessdate=2013-02-20|publisher=Anne Arundel County|display-authors=etal|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131008102525/http://losttownsproject.org/projects/Pig%20Point/overview.html|archivedate=2013-10-08}}{{cite journal|url=http://www.losttownsproject.org/publications/articles/Triangle%20points%20-%20Luckenbach,%20Grow,%20and%20Sharpe.pdf|title=Archaic Period Triangular Points from Pig Point|author=Al Luckenbach|accessdate=2013-02-20|journal=Journal of Middle Atlantic Archaeology |volume=26 |year=2010|display-authors=etal}}{{dead link|date=July 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

The Chesapeake Beach Railway was completed in 1899 through the southern part of Bristol or "Pindell"; ruins of the Pindell Station and its general store remain.{{cite web|url=http://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/stagsere/se1/se5/001000/001400/001469/pdf/msa_se5_1469.pdf|title=Nomination Form for National Register of Historic Places|accessdate=2013-02-20|publisher=Maryland Historic Trust}}{{cite web|url=http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~andersoninsco/State_Map_Maryland.jpg

|title=Maryland and Delaware (map showing towns of Bristol and Pindell and the rail line)|accessdate=2015-02-26|date=1908|publisher=C.S. Hammond and Co., NY}} The James Owens Farm, listed on the National Register of Historic Places,{{NRISref|2008a}} and the southern terminus of the Stephanie Roper Highway portion of Maryland Route 4 are also located in Bristol.

In the mid-twentieth century, the segregated Bristol Elementary School was located in the northern part of town, three-quarter mile southeast of Waysons Corner and a half mile south of the crossroad village of Drury. The school in 1953 published a history of Bristol (largely reprinting a 1927 Bristol town history from the Annapolis Capital newspaper).{{cite web|url= http://www.longwebs.org/history/BristolElementarySchool.pdf|title=Discovering Our School Community|date= 1953|author=Fifth Grade class|accessdate=2015-02-26|publisher=Anne Arundel County Board of Education}} The following year it was enlarged and renovated, growing to 200 students (and four teachers and a heating and rodent problem) by 1969{{cite journal|url= http://msa.maryland.gov/msa/refserv/bulldog/bull96/html/bul10-21.html|title=Grand Jury Inspection of Schools|journal=The Archivist's Bulldog |volume=10 |issue=21|date= 12 November 1996|author=Pat Melville|accessdate=2015-02-26|publisher=Maryland Archives}} after the county was ordered to desegregate schools in 1966.{{cite web|url= https://www.baltimoresun.com/1995/02/12/philip-l-brown-has-the-long-view-of-anne-arundels-schools-and-racial-integration/|title=Philip L. Brown has the long view of Anne Arundel's schools and racial integration|date= 12 February 1995|author=Carol L. Bowers|access-date=2015-02-26|work=The Baltimore Sun}}