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    Port Deposit is a town in Cecil County, Maryland, United States. It is located on the east bank of the Susquehanna River near its discharge into the Chesapeake...
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    The Columbia and Port Deposit Railroad (C&PD) was a railroad that operated in Pennsylvania and Maryland in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It operated...
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    The Port Deposit Gneiss is a Paleozoic gneiss formation in Cecil County, Maryland. It is described as a "Moderately to strongly deformed intrusive complex...
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    crossings. The wooden covered bridge was constructed just north of Port Deposit, Maryland, between 1817 and 1818 and lasted until 1857. It was built and operated...
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    Bainbridge (USNTC Bainbridge) was the U.S. Navy Training Center at Port Deposit, Maryland, on the bluffs of the northeast bank of the Susquehanna River. It...
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  • in Prince George's County, Maryland Snow Hill Site, Port Deposit, Maryland, listed on the NRHP in Cecil County, Maryland Snow Hill, North Carolina, a...
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  • Frank L. Rowland (category People from Port Deposit, Maryland)
    1891 near Port Deposit, Maryland, to Alice (née Ball) and Edwin H. Rowland. Rowland was a Democrat. He served as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates...
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  • Cecil Clyde Squier (category People from Port Deposit, Maryland)
    Squier did not marry and lived in Port Deposit, Maryland. He died March 20, 1951, at the age of 80, in Port Deposit. He was buried at West Nottingham...
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    Joseph I. France (category People from Port Deposit, Maryland)
    Institute of Port Deposit, Maryland, in 1897, but resigned later to enter the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Baltimore, Maryland. He commenced...
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  • Road railway station, Birmingham, England Port Road Branch, rail branch line serving Port Deposit, Maryland Port Road, a nickname of the Portpatrick and...
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    Benedum-Trees Oil Company, Hiawatha Oil and Gas, etc. Donaldson Brown, Port Deposit, Maryland; E. I du Pont de Nemours & Co. George R. Brown, Houston; Brown &...
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    Tome School (category Preparatory schools in Maryland)
    attracting almost all the students from the town of Port Deposit and many from outside, throughout Maryland, Pennsylvania, and neighboring states. Tome left...
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    Frank Kelso (category People from Port Deposit, Maryland)
    Power School in United States Naval Training Center Bainbridge, Port Deposit, Maryland. Following tours included Commanding Officer, USS Finback; Staff...
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  • Evalyn France (category People from Port Deposit, Maryland)
    in Port Deposit, Maryland, to Henry C. Nesbitt, a merchant who owned a general store in Port Deposit and branch stores in Harford County, Maryland. In...
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    James Wilson Squier (category People from Port Deposit, Maryland)
    from Maryland. He served as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 1908 to 1910. James Wilson Squier was born in Port Deposit, Maryland, to John...
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    John Creswell (category People from Port Deposit, Maryland)
    was born in Port Deposit, Maryland, then known as Creswells Ferry, on November 18, 1828. His father was John G. Creswell, from Maryland of English ancestry...
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    Jacob Tome (category People from Port Deposit, Maryland)
    to Port Deposit, Maryland, to work at Boggs' Hotel. He moved to Philadelphia for a short time to take up bookkeeping, but returned to Port Deposit in...
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    Jennifer Pahlka (category People from Port Deposit, Maryland)
    Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better. She was born in Port Deposit, Maryland, and raised in Austin, New Haven, and New York City. She is a graduate...
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    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1882. He attended Tomes Institute in Port Deposit, Maryland. After working on merchant marine vessels at age 14, Bancroft was...
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  • him. After being released from prison in August 1975, he moved to Port Deposit, Maryland, where he married Crawford and moved in with her and her two daughters...
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    Martha Tracy Owler (category People from Port Deposit, Maryland)
    was like that of Washington Irving. Martha Ruth Tracy was born in Port Deposit, Maryland in 1852. Her parents were George Hopkins Tracy (1830-1856) and Martha...
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    63 km) from MD 222 in Port Deposit north to U.S. Route 1 (US 1) near Harrisville in western Cecil County. MD 276 connects Port Deposit with Rising Sun. MD...
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    citizenship and a free person, Clark taught in Freedmen's schools in Port Deposit, Maryland and Virginia, often facing hostile racism. For example, in a letter...
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    Perryville, Port Deposit, and Conowingo along its route paralleling the Susquehanna River in western Cecil County. Due to limitations in the highway in Port Deposit...
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  • James M. Touchstone (category People from Port Deposit, Maryland)
    was a blacksmith and served in the Maryland House of Delegates. At a very young age, he moved to Port Deposit, Maryland, with his family. He studied at common...
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    James Devereux (category People from Port Deposit, Maryland)
    D.C., then the Tome School overlooking the Susquehanna River at Port Deposit, Maryland, LaVilla in Lausanne, Switzerland (when his parents lived in Vienna...
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  • Frank T. Benson (category People from Port Deposit, Maryland)
    with a quarry company in Port Deposit. He served in that role until 1923. Benson was a Republican. He was a member of the Maryland House of Delegates, representing...
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    Mike Reid (golfer) (category People from Port Deposit, Maryland)
    PGA Championship and the 2009 Tradition. Reid was born in Bainbridge, Maryland, the son of an Air Force officer. He first hit a golf ball when he was...
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    western Cecil County. MD 275 provides an eastern bypass of the town of Port Deposit. The state highway also serves to connect the town of Rising Sun (via...
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    Susquehanna River in Port Deposit, Maryland at the former Tome School campus, some 40 miles (64 km) northeast of Baltimore, Maryland. NAPS returned to Newport...
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