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Reisterstown
Reisterstown is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Baltimore and Carroll counties, Maryland, United States. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 25,968. Founded by German immigrant John Reister in 1758, Reisterstown is located to the northwest of Baltimore. Though it is older than the surrounding areas, it now serves primarily as a residential suburb of Baltimore. The center is designated the Reisterstown Historic District and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. Also listed are the Montrose Mansion and Chapel and St. Michael's Church. Just outside the community, to its north, is the small military reservation of Camp Fretterd, which serves as a training site for the Maryland Army National Guard and Air Guard. The Maryland Defense Force is also headquartered at Camp Fretterd. Geography According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Reisterstown CDP occupies , all land. The community stretches along Reisterstown Road (Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maryland Route 140
Maryland Route 140 (MD 140) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. The route runs from U.S. Route 1 in Maryland, U.S. Route 1 (US 1) and U.S. Route 40 Truck (Baltimore, Maryland), US 40 Truck in Baltimore northwest to the Pennsylvania border, where the road continues into that state as Pennsylvania Route 16 (PA 16). MD 140 passes through the northern part of central Maryland, connecting Baltimore, Pikesville, Maryland, Pikesville, Reisterstown, Maryland, Reisterstown, Westminster, Maryland, Westminster, Taneytown, Maryland, Taneytown, and Emmitsburg, Maryland, Emmitsburg. Route description MD 140 is a part of the main National Highway System (United States), National Highway System from I-795 in Reisterstown to US 15 in Emmitsburg. The highway has two segments where it serves as an intermodal passenger transport, intermodal connector: from Patterson Avenue in Baltimore to I-695 in Pikesville and from Painters Mill Road to Owings Mill Boulevard in Owings Mills. The re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maryland Route 30
Maryland Route 30 (MD 30) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. Known for most of its length as Hanover Pike, the highway runs from Maryland Route 140, MD 140 in Reisterstown, Maryland, Reisterstown north to the Pennsylvania state line near Melrose, Maryland, Melrose, where the highway continues as Pennsylvania Route 94 (PA 94). MD 30 is a major, two-lane regional highway in western Baltimore County, Maryland, Baltimore County and northeastern Carroll County, Maryland, Carroll County. Locally, the highway serves the towns of Manchester, Maryland, Manchester and Hampstead, Maryland, Hampstead; the latter town is bypassed by the highway but served by a business route. Regionally, MD 30 connects Reisterstown and Baltimore, Maryland, Baltimore with Hanover, Pennsylvania. MD 30 originated in the Colonial History of the United States, colonial era as part of a wagon road connecting the fledgling port of Baltimore with the new settlement that was to become Hanover. This h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maryland Route 129
Maryland Route 129 (MD 129) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland, running north-northwesterly from U.S. Route 40 (US 40) and MD 295 in the city of Baltimore into Baltimore County, ending at Garrison Forest Road east of Reisterstown. The route leaves downtown on the one-way pair of McCulloh Street and Druid Hill Avenue, and then uses the entire length of Park Heights Avenue to the end. MD 129 connects Downtown Baltimore with Druid Hill Park using McCulloh Street and Druid Hill Avenue. As Park Heights Avenue, the state highway is one of two primary radial routes (with MD 140) in the northwestern part of the city, providing access to The Maryland Zoo and Pimlico Race Course. In Baltimore County, MD 129 passes through Pikesville, where it has a junction with Interstate 695 (I-695) and serves an affluent rural area north of Pikesville and east of Reisterstown. Route description MD 129 begins at Franklin Street, the westbound direction of US 40, in the Seton Hill neigh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maryland Route 128
Maryland Route 128 (MD 128) is a state highway located in Baltimore County in the U.S. state of Maryland. Known as Butler Road, the state highway runs from MD 30 in Reisterstown east to MD 25 at Butler. MD 128 was constructed in the early 1930s east of Glyndon. The state highway was extended west to MD 30 in the late 1940s concurrent with the removal of the parallel MD 127 in Reisterstown. An intermediate section of MD 128 was maintained by Baltimore County and MD 127 temporarily returned to its old route between 1970 and 1987. Route description MD 128 begins at a four-way intersection with MD 30 (Hanover Pike) in Reisterstown. The west leg of the intersection is unsigned MD 795, a connector between the intersection and the northern end of Interstate 795 (I-795) at MD 140 that allows Baltimore–Hampstead traffic to bypass the center of Reisterstown. MD 128 heads east as a two-lane undivided road through the community of Glyndon, where the highway crosses over CS ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reisterstown Historic District
Reisterstown Historic District is a national historic district in Reisterstown, Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. Its development is inseparably identified with the roads that converge to form Main Street. They are Maryland Route 30 and Maryland Route 140. The earliest structures, including several of log, date to the late 18th century, although the town was founded in 1758. It developed as a convenient stopping place for weary travelers from the outer reaches of Western Maryland or Pennsylvania and many businesses catered to the traveler: including taverns and inns, smithshops, saddleries, stables, waggoners. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ... in 1979. References External links *, including pho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Interstate 795 (Maryland)
Interstate 795 (I-795), also known as the Northwest Expressway, is a auxiliary Interstate Highway linking Baltimore's northwestern suburbs of Pikesville, Maryland, Pikesville, Owings Mills, Maryland, Owings Mills, and Reisterstown, Maryland, to the Baltimore Beltway (Interstate 695 (Maryland), I-695). The route bypasses Maryland Route 140 (MD 140; Reisterstown Road), carrying part of the Maryland Transit Administration (MTA)'s Baltimore Metro SubwayLink in its median for a stretch, and provides direct access to the former Owings Mills Mall. It never connects to its parent, Interstate 95 in Maryland, I-95, except via I-695. Route description I-795 begins in Pikesville at a directional T interchange with I-695 (Baltimore Beltway), which heads south toward Glen Burnie, Maryland, Glen Burnie and east toward Towson, Maryland, Towson. I-695 provides access to I-95 in the directions of Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia to highways into Baltimore. Immediately to the east of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Reister
John Reister (1715–1804) was a German immigrant to America who founded the town of Reisterstown, Maryland in 1758. Born in 1715 and raised in Germany, John Reister moved to America in September 1738. Departing from Rotterdam in the Netherlands and arriving in Philadelphia, Reister originally settled in York, Pennsylvania and began using his background in farming to start earning a living. In 1746 he married a York innkeeper's daughter named Margaret Sohn and moved south into Maryland where he had purchased a tract of land just to the west of modern-day Westminster, Maryland.History of Reisterstown cplonline.org The Reisters used this land for farming and were able to create a comfortable life for themselves. While living on this farm, the Reisters had their six children John Jr., Mary, Margaret, Catherine, Phili ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glyndon, Maryland
Glyndon is an unincorporated community in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. Founded in 1871 by Dr. Charles A. Leas, the village is located in the northwest section of Baltimore County and is primarily a residential suburb of metropolitan Baltimore City. Glyndon is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (1973) and on the Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties (1973); the Glyndon Historic District was also designated as the first historic district in Baltimore County (1981). Glyndon is also known for its yearly 4th of July parade. History The arrival of the Western Maryland Railway in 1860 promoted the early location and growth of Glyndon. Prior to 1871, Dr. Charles A. Leas, the first health officer of Baltimore City and a former American consul, made several purchases of land in what is now Glyndon. When he discovered that farming was not his metier, he decided to found a small town. He employed the Baltimore surveyor Augustus Bouldin to lay out the lot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montrose Mansion And Chapel
Montrose Mansion and Chapel, originally known as Montrose Mansion, is a historic home located on the campus of Camp Fretterd Military Reservation of the Maryland Army National Guard in Reisterstown, Baltimore County, Maryland. It is a two-story neoclassical stone house constructed originally about 1826 by William Patterson who gave it to his grandson, Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte as a wedding present. By the middle of the 19th century, a large two-story wing was added, then a mansard roof with round-top dormers, a cupola, and a bracketed cornice with pendants was added about 1880. The chapel was completed in 1855 and is a rectangular structure of stone with Greek Revival decorative detailing. It features a three-story bell and entrance tower. The mansion and tower are separated by about a quarter of a mile. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United State ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hampstead, Maryland
Hampstead is a town in Carroll County in the U.S. state of Maryland. The population was 6,323 at the 2010 census. History Between 1736 and 1738, Robert Owings was assigned to "cut a new road as Christopher Gist had marked it" south from Conewago (now Hanover, Pennsylvania) to a point about halfway to Fort Garrison in Baltimore County. The village of Spring Garden became a stage-line stop on the new road and later became the town of Hampstead, named after Hampstead, in England. The first European settlers to the area were English immigrants who made their way west from the Port of Philadelphia. They were followed by Scots and Germans. Hampstead was used by farmers from surrounding areas as a center to obtain goods brought from Baltimore and to send produce to markets in Baltimore and Pennsylvania. The level and fertile land, coupled with the availability of lime, gave farmers important advantages for successful farming. In 1879, the Harrisburg Division of the Western Maryland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Owings Mills, Maryland
Owings Mills is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. It is a suburb of Baltimore. Per the 2020 census, the population was 35,674. Owings Mills is home to the northern terminus of the Baltimore Metro Subway, and housed the Owings Mills Mall until its closure in 2015. It is also home to the Baltimore Ravens' headquarters facility, and the studios for Maryland Public Television. In 2008, CNNMoney.com named Owings Mills number 49 of the "100 Best Places to Live and Launch". Geography Owings Mills is located at (39.412282, −76.793065). According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of , all land. Geology The Soldiers Delight Natural Environment Area is in the Owings Mills area. It is a serpentinite barren fostering a unique ecosystem as a result of the dissolution of the rock into an easily eroded thin soil. This site and the Bare Hills District have historically been sources of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greenspring Avenue
Greenspring Avenue is a road in Baltimore, Maryland and its northwestern suburbs. At one time, Greenspring Avenue was Maryland Route 519 from Maryland Route 128, Worthington Road to Dover Road (Reisterstown), Dover Road, but the road has since been List of former Maryland state highways, decommissioned and no longer has any numerical designation. Sections Greenspring Avenue is currently divided into three sections, as follows: *In Baltimore city: From Druid Hill Park to Northern Parkway (Baltimore), Northern Parkway *In Baltimore city: From Northern Parkway (Baltimore), Northern Parkway to Cross Country Boulevard/Pimlico Road *In Baltimore city/county: From Cross Country Boulevard to Tufton Avenue. Greenspring Avenue begins inside of Druid Hill Park, near the Maryland Zoo. The first section, which is approximately long, is mostly lined with high-rise apartment, high-rise and garden apartments. This section ends at Northern Parkway, at Sinai Hospital, and across from Cylburn Par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
