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Joppa ( JOP-ə) is a former colonial town and current planning region of Harford County, Maryland, United States. Joppa was founded as a British settlement on the Gunpowder River in 1707 and designated as the third county chair of Baltimore County in 1712. The indigenous boundaries of Baltimore County were defined in 1659 and contained whatever of advocate day Baltimore County, Baltimore City, Harford and Cecil counties and parts of Howard, Carroll, Anne Arundel and Kent counties. The deal was named for the Biblical town of Jaffa in the ancient Holy Land of modern-day Israel. Joppa’s port began to silt in due to clearcutting and gardening upriver and coupled next multiple outbreaks of diseases such as smallpox and malaria, the county seat was moved to the growing, deep water harbor of Baltimore in 1768. Joppa’s population would decline rapidly thereafter and businesses left for more prosperous environments in the further Baltimore Town.

The town of Joppa close the Western Shore of the Chesapeake Bay was designated as a “Port of Entry” by the colonial legislature, the Maryland General Assembly. It traded internationally in agricultural products, primarily tobacco; the chief commodity crop and currency throughout much of its colonial era.