TURNER STATION, Md. — Allen Smith discovered his perfect spot when he moved to Turner Station a few months ago.

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The new fishing pier at Fleming Park offers everything he loves about the waterfront community.

“It’s beautiful,” he says. “It’s pretty. It’s pretty in the daytime. It’s even prettier at night. Especially at this pier here because you have lights that’s all over there, and it looks like Christmas.”

For nearly 50 years, an old loading dock sat here. A forgotten relic from the construction of the 695 connector to the Key Bridge.

Generations of residents like Olivia Lomax turned it into an informal fishing spot.

“So many of our neighbors and friends that come here to fish and crab,” Lomax say

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