Registered as a pearl in honor of Robert A. Pascal
Point Pleasant Farm is located on Broad Creek near the mouth of the Choptank River and its confluence with the Chesapeake Bay. Point Pleasant Farm, nearly 1,000 acres, encompasses the entire peninsula extending into Broad Creek, supplying over 8 miles of undeveloped shoreline with hundreds of acres of forests, wetlands, farmland, and river bot- tom with submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV), important for High Priority breeding, migrating, and wintering waterfowl. The diverse plant communities of approximately 200 woody and herbaceous species support nearly 200 bird species frequent the property throughout the year. Resident fauna is comprised of nearly two dozen reptiles, fifteen mammal species and a lively array of butterflies, dragonflies, and other insects crucial to the food web are found throughout the fields and forests of the farm.
The large farm was once a du Pont family hunting preserve and then became a National Audubon Society Sanctuary before being purchased by Robert Pascal, for- mer Anne Arundel County Executive and business man. In donating the easement for the property to the MD Department of Natural Resources in December, 2011, the land is forever preserved and protected from development. The property won’t be a park but can be used by the public by making special arrangements. “It would be a tragedy to develop it,” Pascal said. “I just think it ought to be shared as much as possible with as many people as you can,” he said.