Towson Maryland was settled in 1752 when Pennsylvania brothers, William and Thomas Towson Maryland, began farming an area of Sater's Hill, northeast of the present-day York and Joppa Roads.
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18 Facts About Towson Maryland
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Towson Maryland built the hotel at current-day Shealy Avenue and York Road, near the area's main crossroads.
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The property in West Towson Maryland came from two land grants: 400-acre Gott's Hope in 1719, and Gunner's Range in 1706.
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On November 2,1894, Towson Maryland was supplied with electric service through connection with the Mount Washington Electric Light and Power Company.
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The Towson Maryland Legislature had established the MSNS in 1865 as Towson Maryland's first teacher-training school, or normal school.
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Author Robert Coston, who grew up in the area of Towson Maryland now called "Historic East Towson Maryland", recalled in an interview the unique African-American history of that area during the mid-century:.
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Eudowood is a Towson neighborhood named after Eudocia, the wife of Dr John T Stansbury, on whose former estate it is situated.
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Towson Maryland has light rail service to downtown Baltimore and BWI Airport along its periphery via the Lutherville and Falls Road stops, though there are no stops actually in Towson Maryland.
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Passenger service was discontinued on August 31,1954, and the railroad line through Towson Maryland was finally abandoned altogether on June 11,1958, leaving only the stone abutments where the tracks crossed York Road on a steel girder bridge.
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Towson Maryland Place is a major shopping area near Joppa Road, Goucher Boulevard, and Putty Hill Avenue.
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Towson Maryland Place is next to Calvert Hall College High School, a Roman Catholic Lasallian Christian Brothers secondary school which moved in 1960 to its suburban location from its original site, founded 1845 in the city's Mount Vernon-Belvedere neighborhood on Cathedral Street at West Mulberry Street.
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Also located in Towson Maryland is Goucher College, a small private liberal arts school that was founded in 1885.
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The current 287-acre campus of the school in Towson Maryland was notably registered as a historic district and in 2007 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places for its unique and innovative architecture.
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Towson Maryland is served by the Baltimore County Public Schools district, and the Baltimore County Board of Education headquarters is located there.
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Towson Maryland is served by seven public elementary schools in the school district.
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Towson Maryland is served by two public middle schools, Dumbarton Middle School and Loch Raven Technical Academy.
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Also located in Towson Maryland is Ridge Ruxton School, a special education school serving the central area of Baltimore County, including Reisterstown, Owings Mills, Parkville, Cockeysville, and Hunt Valley.
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Towson Maryland area has a number of long-established private schools at the secondary school level, including Loyola Blakefield, Calvert Hall College High School, Concordia Preparatory School, and Notre Dame Preparatory School.
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