Point of Rocks is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Frederick County, Maryland. As of the 2010 census, it had a population...
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Point of Rocks is a historic passenger rail station on the MARC Brunswick Line between Washington, D.C., and Martinsburg, WV, located at Point of Rocks...
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Church is a parish of the Episcopal Church near Point of Rocks, Frederick County, Maryland, in the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland. It is noted for its...
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Santa Fe Trail Point of Rocks, Maryland, a town on the Potomac River Point of Rocks (MARC station), listed on the National Register of Historic Places...
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Indiana Pleasant View, Kentucky Pleasant View, Maryland, a settlement near Point of Rocks, Maryland Pleasant View, Tennessee Pleasant View, Utah Pleasant...
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common name of the species refers to the area known as Point of Rocks, Maryland, in the USA. Bogan, A.E. (1996). "Tryonia elata". IUCN Red List of Threatened...
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Northeast Corridor. It meets the Old Main Line Subdivision at Point of Rocks, Maryland. At its northwest end in Weverton, the line joins the Cumberland...
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entire length of the highway in Maryland is part of the National Highway System. US 15 enters Maryland at Point of Rocks, named for the pair of mountain peaks...
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Turner Ashby (category People of Virginia in the American Civil War)
fords across the Potomac River and bridges from Harpers Ferry to Point of Rocks, Maryland. He became known for visiting his pickets on long horseback rides...
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D.C. via Union Station, as well as with points west including Point of Rocks, Maryland, and Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. Multiple Ride On buses serve...
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origin of the Chessie System was the former Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, which had merged with the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, and the Western Maryland Railway...
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Furnace Mountain (Virginia) (category Mountains of Loudoun County, Virginia)
of Catoctin Mountain in Loudoun County, Virginia. It rises steeply from the southern banks of the Potomac River across from Point of Rocks, Maryland and...
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Action at Mount Zion Church (category Battles of the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War)
Virginia as part of Mosby's Operations in Northern Virginia. After successfully raiding the Union garrison at Point of Rocks, Maryland, Mosby's Rangers...
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Old Main Line Subdivision, between Relay (outside Baltimore) and Point of Rocks, Maryland Park Avenue main line, the former New York Central Railroad (now...
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follows portions of two Maryland Scenic Byways: the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Scenic Byway from its western terminus in Point of Rocks to MD 109 in Beallsville...
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Washington, D.C., to Point of Rocks, Maryland. The first suburban development appeared in 1887 when Selina Wilson divided part of her farm on present-day...
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Ephraim Francis Baldwin (category Catholic University of America people)
Museum (established 1953), the B&O passenger station (1875) at Point of Rocks, Maryland and the immensely long Baltimore & Ohio Warehouse at Camden Yards...
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north to Gettysburg, PA and south concurrent with U.S. 340 to Point of Rocks, Maryland and Leesburg, Virginia. US 40: Runs concurrent with I-70 and U...
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ties through his business to Point of Rocks, Maryland, where he was station master for the B&O Railroad. After the secession of Virginia in May 1861, Confederate...
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Island near Point of Rocks, Maryland.: 27 Georgetown was established in 1751 when the Maryland General Assembly purchased sixty acres of land for the...
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Potomac River (redirect from Headwaters of the Potomac river)
to Point Lookout, Maryland, and drains 14,679 sq mi (38,020 km2). The length of the river from the junction of its North and South Branches to Point Lookout...
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Maryland (US: /ˈmɛrɪlənd/ MERR-il-ənd) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. The state borders Virginia to its south, West Virginia...
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Piscataway people (redirect from Cedarville Band of Piscataway Indians)
Island) in the Potomac near Point of Rocks, Maryland. They remained there until after 1722. In the 18th century, the Maryland Colony nullified all Indian...
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Washington, D.C. (redirect from District of Columbia, District of Columbia)
displaced the Piscataway people, some of whom established a new settlement in 1699 near Point of Rocks, Maryland. Several other cities served as the U...
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the Point Lookout Light, which was built in 1830. It is the southernmost spot on Maryland's western shore, the coastal region on the western side of the...
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CSX Transportation owns and operates a vast network of rail lines in the United States east of the Mississippi River. In addition to the major systems...
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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (category 1827 establishments in Maryland)
1831; Point of Rocks on April 2, 1832; and Sandy Hook on December 1, 1834. Sandy Hook, Maryland, on the north shore of the Potomac, was the end of the line...
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Maryland Route 464 (MD 464) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. Known for most of its length as Point of Rocks Road, the state highway runs...
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miles (14 km) southwest of Frederick, the county seat, and 5 miles (8 km) northeast of the Potomac River at Point of Rocks. Maryland Route 85 "2020 U.S. Gazetteer...
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87th Ohio Infantry Regiment (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion)
defenses of Bolivar Heights until September. Skirmishes at Berlin [now Brunswick] and Point of Rocks, Maryland, September 4–5 (detachment). Defense of Harpers...
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