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The Severn Grove community was platted and subdivided in 1932 by a Mr. Fred E. Kroker of Washington, DC and given the name Severn Grove. The creek was originally called Underwood Creek but later named Saltworks Creek. See The Annals of Severn Grove, Annapolis, Maryland written by Mrs. Edith Whitcraft Eberhart in 1993.

Severn Grove is 36.30 acres divided into 88 lots with parks, roads, a beach, and a marina. A 1980 Chesapeake Bay Magazine article gave this description:

“Later while exploring this beautiful river(Severn River), we poked our way into Saltworks Creek (formerly Underwood Creek). Here we found an Adirondack Mountain lake setting. Saltworks has to be one of the prettiest miniature harbors on the Severn River!

Saltworks Creek is reminiscent of a beautiful mountain lake, with high wooded shored that allow only a glimpse of scattered houses perched high above the anchorage. There are the usual piers along the water’s edge, but as darkness falls, the setting can’t be very different from the days when the early Puritans were first settling these shores over three hundred years ago.”