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    Hancock is a town in Washington County, Maryland, United States. The population was 1,557 at the 2020 census. The Western Maryland community is notable...
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    on the Eastern Shore and Cumberland, Frostburg, and Hancock in Western Maryland. Southern Maryland is still somewhat rural, but suburbanization from Washington...
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  • William Dorsey Swann (category People from Hancock, Maryland)
    child in a Protestant family with 13 children. He was enslaved in Hancock, Maryland. After the Civil War, his parents were able to buy a farm. Swann's...
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  • up hancock in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Hancock may refer to: Hancock, Iowa Hancock, Maine Hancock, Maryland Hancock, Massachusetts Hancock, Michigan...
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    Warfordsburg. The highways travel concurrently to Hancock, Maryland. Maryland I-68 / US 40 north-northwest of Hancock. I-70/US 40 travels concurrently to south-southwest...
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    Battle of Hancock was fought during the Confederate Romney Expedition of the American Civil War on January 5 and 6, 1862, near Hancock, Maryland. Major General...
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    states of West Virginia and Maryland, connecting I-79 in Morgantown, West Virginia, east to I-70 in Hancock, Maryland. I-68 is also Corridor E of the...
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    town of Hancock, the northern and southern boundaries are separated by just 1.8 miles, the narrowest stretch in the state. Western Maryland is more rural...
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    former right-of-way of the Western Maryland Railway (WM) between Fort Frederick State Park and Little Orleans via Hancock, paralleling the C&O Canal and Potomac...
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    Washington County, Maryland, United States. Its population was 82 as of the 2010 census. It is between Clear Spring, Maryland and Hancock, Maryland along Interstate...
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  • gain it back. Not much is known about Elvira Hancock's past other than that she was born in Baltimore, Maryland. After leaving Baltimore, she headed to Miami...
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    John Hancock (January 23, 1737 [O.S. January 12, 1736] – October 8, 1793) was an American Founding Father, merchant, statesman, and prominent Patriot...
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    Richard K. Sutherland (category People from Hancock, Maryland)
    the South West Pacific Area during the war. Sutherland was born in Hancock, Maryland, on 27 November 1893, the only son among the six children of Howard...
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    colloquially known as "Yinzers". The dialect is even heard in the town of Hancock, Maryland. Scots-Irish, Pennsylvania Dutch, Polish, Ukrainian and Croatian immigrants...
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    as "the queen of drag" was William Dorsey Swann, born enslaved in Hancock, Maryland, who in the 1880s started hosting drag balls in Washington, DC attended...
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    Morgantown, West Virginia I-70 in Hancock, Maryland 01991-01-011991 current Serves two states: West Virginia, Maryland I-69 879.82 1,415.93 US 59 in Rosenberg...
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    Pennsylvania; and again from Hancock, Maryland to Baltimore; I-64 in parts of Missouri and Illinois; I-68 along the Maryland Panhandle; and I-95 from Baltimore...
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  • changed to Hancock in 1948 to reflect its location on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad mainline across the river from Hancock, Maryland. Hancock is also accessible...
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    prevented the burning of Hancock in Maryland, and McConnellsburg and Bedford in Pennsylvania. McCausland planned to burn Hancock, Maryland, after not receiving...
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  • George W. Smith. Wason worked to establish the Presbyterian Church in Hancock, Maryland. A large monument is in front of the church marking the grave of Wason...
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    outside of Baltimore, Maryland. In Maryland, the Interstate Highway runs 91.85 miles (147.82 km) from the Pennsylvania state line in Hancock east to the Interstate's...
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    Charles H. Rowland (category People from Hancock, Maryland)
    House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Rowland was born in Hancock, Maryland. He moved to Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, in 1866 and to Houtzdale...
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    Western Maryland, and South Central Pennsylvania to its terminus in the Susquehanna Valley. The highway serves Berkeley Springs, West Virginia; Hancock, Maryland;...
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    Sideling Hill (category Landforms of Washington County, Maryland)
    from the former Exhibit Center are now displayed at the Hancock Museum in nearby Hancock, Maryland. The former exhibit center building was reopened as a...
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  • record producer based in Miami, Florida. Carey grew up in Hancock, Maryland, graduating from Hancock Middle-Senior High School in 1993. His father was a live...
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    Potomac River (category Rivers of Maryland)
    Spring and South Branch Depot, West Virginia from whence it flows past Hancock, Maryland and turns southeast once more on its way toward Washington, D.C.,...
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    County, Maryland, United States. Its principal is Jenny Ruppenthal. It enrolls 262 students as of 2016 and School Day is 8:30 to 3:30. Hancock Middle-Senior...
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    fishing in the Potomac River is in the section from Spring Gap to Hancock. Maryland Route 51 runs through Spring Gap, leading northwest to Cumberland...
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    connects Berkeley Springs to Interstate 70 and Interstate 68 near Hancock, Maryland, while heading south provides a connection to Interstate 81 near Winchester...
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    with at-grade intersections to connect the freeway heading south to Hancock, Maryland, with the ramp to I-76, which through this section is the Pennsylvania...
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