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Eagle Harbor is a tiny incorporated town in the far southeast corner of Prince George's County, Maryland, near the rural community of Aquasco.

The community began in 1925, when developer Walter L. Bean purchased land adjoining Trueman Point to create a resort community for middle-class African Americans, offering lots for $50 or less and advertising it as "a high class summer colony for the better people."

After a number of summer cottages were constructed, the community incorporated as the town of Eagle Harbor in 1929.

Before the resort, the site was Trueman Point, a river port established in the early 18th century on the Patuxent River to serve as a shipping point for tobacco plantations in the Aquasco area.

Trueman Point was considered by the Maryland colony as an official tobacco inspection station in 1747, but it never received that designation.

In 1817 George Weems established the Weems Steamboat Company at Trueman Point, and steamboat traffic continued there into the 1930s; Trueman Point Landing is now a local historic site identified by the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission.

The 2020 census counted 67 residents in Eagle Harbor, up from 63 in 2010 and 55 in 2000.

Eagle Harbor's earliest census counts were in the single digits, just 3 residents in 1930 and 2 in 1940, reflecting its origins as a seasonal summer colony.

Reflecting that summer-colony character, only 23 of the town's 53 housing units were occupied year-round at the 2020 census.

African Americans made up 52.2 percent of Eagle Harbor's population in the 2020 census, 35 of its 67 residents, and the town remains a historic African American community.