Benedict is an unincorporated town and census-designated place in Charles County, Maryland, United States, located on the Patuxent River in southern Maryland. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 261.
Landscape in Benedict
Oyster boats and pleasure craft docked in the Patuxent River at Benedict, 1941
The Patuxent River is a tributary of the Chesapeake Bay in the state of Maryland. There are three main river drainages for central Maryland: the Potomac River to the west passing through Washington, D.C., the Patapsco River to the northeast passing through Baltimore, and the Patuxent River between the two. The 908-square-mile (2,352 km2) Patuxent watershed had a rapidly growing population of 590,769 in 2000. It is the largest and longest river entirely within Maryland, and its watershed is the largest completely within the state.
Patuxent River near Bowie
The Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
View of the River, 1935
Aerial photograph of the Patuxent River forming the boundary of Calvert County (foreground) and Prince George's County