Golf in La Plata

La Plata is the seat of Charles County in Southern Maryland's rural interior, a community anchored by county government and the corridor commerce along Route 301. Charles County's economy was shaped by three centuries of tobacco cultivation, and the transition to other crops and light industry has reshaped the rural landscape without eliminating its agricultural character. Hawthorne Country Club serves the county seat's recreational golf market in a community that functions as a regional service center for the sparsely settled communities of Southern Maryland's lower peninsula. The surrounding countryside of pine forest, tobacco barns, and working farms provides a distinctly Maryland character that differentiates Southern Maryland from both the DC suburbs and the Eastern Shore.