Charles County, Maryland
Waldorf Real Estate and Local Guide
The largest commercial and residential center in Southern Maryland, about 23 miles south-southeast of Washington, D.C., that grew rapidly from a small tobacco-market village into a busy suburban hub.
Living in Waldorf
Once nicknamed a 'Little Las Vegas'; in the 1950s and 1960s its legal slot-machine revenue at times rivaled Las Vegas before Maryland banned the machines in 1968. Source: preservationmaryland.org
Homes in Waldorf
- About 57.6% of homes are single-family detached houses, with townhomes and apartments common in planned communities like St. Charles.
Source: ACS 2023
What makes Waldorf home
Dr. Samuel A. Mudd House Museum
Historic farmhouse where Dr. Mudd set John Wilkes Booth's broken leg in 1865, now a museum on the National Register
Regency Furniture Stadium
4,200-seat ballpark home to the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs of the Atlantic League
Piscataway Indian Museum and Cultural Center
Museum and cultural center operated by the Piscataway Indian Nation
Robert D. Stethem Memorial Sports Complex
Charles County sports complex on Piney Church Road with baseball fields, a playground, and a picnic pavilion
Capital Clubhouse
90,000-square-foot indoor sports complex with ice skating and hockey rinks
Waldorf areas to know
St. Charles
Large planned community begun after a 1970 federal HUD loan package