Originally the Chesapeake Beach Railway station at the line's intersection with Solomons Island Road was known as " Friendship.

Solomons Island Road, the main Calvert County artery

Maryland Route 231 intersects Solomons Island Road and runs west, ultimately crossing the Patuxent River and continuing into Charles County.

Solomons Island is on the north side of the mouth of Patuxent River, where it meets the Chesapeake Bay.

Originally called Bourne's Island ( 1680 ), then Somervell's Island ( 1740 ), Solomons, also known as Solomons Island, takes its name from 19th century Baltimore businessman Isaac Solomon, who established a cannery there shortly after the Civil War.

The bridge leads from just off Solomons Island proper to Saint Mary's County, Maryland and the Patuxent Naval Air Station.

Solomons is also home to the popular Tiki Bar of Solomons Island.

The weekend of the annual opening of the Tiki Bar brings tens of thousands of visitors to the Tiki Bar and other Solomons Island establishments.

Image: Solomons Island UMC Dec 08. JPG | Solomons United Methodist Church, December 2008.

In August, the task force supported the landings on Guadalcanal, then fought in the Battle of the Eastern Solomons, followed by the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands in October, the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal in November, and covered the retreat of TF 18 after the Battle of Rennell Island.

The South coast of New Guinea from the entrance to the Bensbak River ( 141 ° 01 ' E ) to Gado-Gadoa Island near its Southeastern extreme (), down this meridian to the 100 fathom line and thence along the Southern edges of Uluma ( Suckling ) Reef and those extending to the Eastward as far as the Southeast point of Lawik Reef () off Tagula Island < nowiki >< nowiki ></ nowiki >, thence a line to the Southern extreme of Rennell Island and from its Eastern point to Cape Surville, the Eastern extreme of San Cristobal Island < nowiki >< nowiki ></ nowiki >, Solomons ; thence through Nupani, the Northwestern of the Santa Cruz Islands () to the Northernmost Island of the Duff or Wilson Group ().

Image: Solomons_maryland_bronze_sculpture_on_watch_navy_training_center. jpg | Sculpture On Watch ( Commemorating The World War II U. S. Naval Amphibious Training Base, Solomons, Maryland, 1942 – 1945 ) by artist Antonio Tobias Mendez ( 2007 bronze ) -- near the end of Dowell Road, Solomons, MD.

The route runs concurrent with Maryland Route 4 through much of Calvert County along a four-lane divided highway known as Solomons Island Road, passing through rural areas as well as the communities of Lusby, Port Republic, Prince Frederick, and Huntingtown.

In Sunderland, MD 2 splits from MD 4 and continues north as two-lane undivided Solomons Island Road into Anne Arundel County, still passing through rural areas.

Maryland Route 2 heads north on Solomons Island Road, a two-lane undivided road with a speed limit of in Solomons Island, Calvert County from an intersection with Lore Road and an off-ramp from northbound Maryland Route 4 known as Maryland Route 2G.

A short distance later, a portion of Maryland Route 765 called MD 765R continues north along Solomons Island Road, while MD 2 merges onto MD 4 to form a concurrency with that route on a four-lane divided highway a short distance north of where MD 4 crosses the Patuxent River over the Governor Thomas Johnson Bridge.

Upon merging with MD 4, the road continues north as Solomons Island Road, passing commercial areas to the east and a U. S. Navy Recreation Center to the west.

Solomons Island Road intersects MD 2N ( Calvert Cliffs Parkway ), which provides access to the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant and another segment of MD 765 which runs to the west of the route on Saw Mill Road.

A short distance past MD 765, Solomons Island Road intersects Maryland Route 402 ( Dares Beach Road ).

At the split, MD 4 heads northwest on four-lane divided Southern Maryland Boulevard while MD 2 heads northeast on two-lane undivided Solomons Island Road, which has a speed limit.

MD 765 returns to MD 2 past this intersection and Maryland Route 778 then loops to the east of the route on Old Solomons Island Road.

Past the MD 665 interchange, the route heads into commercial areas on the outskirts of Annapolis as a road, with Maryland Route 393 ( Old Solomons Island Road ) branching off from the route and paralleling it to the east.

After an exit for Solomons, the state highway is joined by MD 2 ( Solomons Island Road ) in a long concurrency through Calvert County that is often referenced as MD 2-4.

With James's supervision, Stein and another student, Leon Mendez Solomons, performed experiments on normal motor automatism, a phenomenon hypothesized to occur in people when their attention is divided between two simultaneous intelligent activities such as writing and speaking.

A large housing development called Chesapeake Ranch Estates is nearby, as well as the tourist resort town of Solomons.

Solomons is a community and census-designated place ( CDP ) in Calvert County, Maryland, United States.

Solomons is considered a popular weekend destination spot amongst many living in the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area.

Solomons is located at ( 38. 336431, − 76. 464102 ).

The Annmarie Garden in Solomons is a Smithsonian-affiliated forested sculpture park where creations of Kenneth Snelson, George Rickey, Arnaldo Pomodoro and other major sculptors are on exhibit.

It contains a large antique dealer complex, and is a few miles north of the popular weekend resort town Solomons, Maryland.

The Autonomous Region of Bougainville, previously known as North Solomons, is an autonomous region in Papua New Guinea.

* T. m. pygmaeus ( Solomons White Ibis ) is a dwarf form found on the Solomon Islands that has been considered a separate species at times.

This region is also known as Bougainville Province or the North Solomons.

Aharon Solomons is an A. I. D. A Instructor Trainer and currently teaches in Eilat, Israel.

Tulagi is developing a tourism industry based on scuba ; however, due to ongoing civil unrest, the industry in the Solomons is in a perilous state.

It is unknown when Poinsett became a Master Mason, but it is known that he was a Past Master of Recovery Lodge # 31, Greenville, and Solomons Lodge # 1, Charleston ( Reference: Thompson, Edward N., " Joel Robert Poinsett: The Man Behind the Flower ", Short Talk Bulletin, Masonic Service Association of the United States, December 1984 ).

The Solomons Baptist Association is a regional / national association of churches affiliated with and cooperating in the American Baptist Association.

The faith and practice of the churches of the Solomons Baptist Association is the same as other churches of the American Baptist Association, which can be described as conservative, evangelical, and landmark.

XIV Corps is credited with service in the Guadalcanal, Northern Solomons, Bismarck Archipelago, and Luzon Campaigns.

With 1925 origins as a research station on Solomons Island, the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science ( UMCES ) is one the University System of Maryland's two scientific research centers.

Solomons also has three major hotels, a U. S. Navy family recreation center, and a church retirement home.

The naval Battle of the Eastern Solomons ( also known as the Battle of the Stewart Islands and, in Japanese sources, as the, took place on 24 – 25 August 1942, and was the third carrier battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II and the second major engagement fought between the United States Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Guadalcanal Campaign.

After the Battle of the Eastern Solomons, in which the aircraft carrier was heavily damaged and forced to travel to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, for a month of major repairs, three U. S. carrier task forces remained in the South Pacific area.

With the Japanese Army's next planned major ground attack on Allied forces on Guadalcanal set for 20 October, Yamamoto's warships began to position themselves towards the southern Solomons to support the army offensive on Guadalcanal, and to be ready to engage any Allied ( primarily U. S .) ships, especially carriers, that approached to support the Allied defenses on Guadalcanal.

The Japanese believed that U. S. Navy forces were likely to be in the Solomons Island area because they had read a report from the United Press dated 20 October that stated that the United States Navy was preparing for a major sea and air battle in the South Pacific.