About Davidsonville and DACA

The geographic center of Davidsonville is the intersection of Route 214 (which travels East-West and is known in Davidsonville as Central Avenue or West Central Avenue) and Route 424 (a North-South byway referred to as Davidsonville Road). 

In 1992, the Davidsonville Historic District was added by the Maryland Historical Trust to the list of Maryland’s National Register Properties. According to the trust, the crossroads of Routes 214 and 424 are “significant as a largely intact representative example of the type of crossroads community which characterized rural Anne Arundel County in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Davidsonville is among the best preserved examples of this type of community remaining in the county; other comparable villages have been obliterated by subsequent development. The village has maintained substantial integrity despite increasingly intensive development pressure in the surrounding area.” (Read more.)

• Maintain and improve the quality of life in our community. We join together to counsel with one another so that we may wisely guide the growth and development of the our community for the betterment of our lives and for the lives of our children and their children.

• Consider and deal by all lawful means with common problems involved in matters pertaining to land and natural resource utilization in the geographical area known as Davidsonville, to secure cooperative action in advancing common purposes of the members of the association.

• Promote community pride and civic interests.

• Consider, account for, and educate the community about the unique history of the Davidsonville community.

• Promote land use policies that preserve the agricultural and rural character of the Davidsonville community, protect the environment, preserve open space, and improve safety — including the safety of roads and pedestrian byways — while respecting the property rights of residents.

• Monitor and, as appropriate, effectively voice concern with or support for laws, rules and policies that affect Davidsonville residents.

• Provide a forum where ideas, concerns and needs can be discussed with respect for each other’s opinions. 

Preamble: We, the citizens of the Davidsonville Area, state and affirm our will to maintain and improve the quality of life in our community. We join together to counsel with one another so that we may wisely guide the growth and development of our village for the betterment of our lives and for the lives of our children and their children.

We recognize and seek to understand the many forces working to change our community. Indeed, many among us are a part of that change. We understand that all change is not bad, nor is all change good. We seek change that will balance the needs of agriculture and commerce but above all, the needs of the people who give our village life.

Be it resolved, therefore, that we establish a community civic association through which the people of this community may exert all just influence in the determination of matters bearing on the life of the community. Said association will avoid personal gain, parochial interest and partisan political advantage. It shall be open to all facets of opinion and shall serve as a forum in which the wants and needs of the community are discovered.