MARYLAND

 http://www.mountairymd.org/

About Mount Airy, Maryland (courtesy of Wikipedia):

Mount Airy is a town located in Carroll and Frederick counties in the U.S. state of Maryland. It is part of both the Washington Metropolitan Area andBaltimore Metropolitan Area. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 9,288.[5]

 Outside of the town limits, the surrounding community is colloquially referred to as Mount Airy or the “Four-County Area” by locals. The “Four-County Area” derives its name from the fact that the community encompasses portions of Frederick, Carroll, Montgomery, and Howard counties. 

 For more information on buying or selling a house in Mount Airy, or anywhere in Maryland, contact a State 7 Realty Agent. 

http://visitellicottcity.com/

About Ellicott City (courtesy of Wikipedia):

Ellicott City is an unincorporated community and census-designated place, along with being the county seat of local government in Howard County,Maryland, United States. It is part of the Baltimore–Washington Metropolitan Area. The population was 65,834 at the U.S. Decennial Census of 2010.[2] It is the county seat of Howard County.[3] Founded in 1772, the town features the B. & O. Railroad Museum’s branch at the Ellicott City Station, built in 1830, and the first terminus of the initial line then constructed, and a downtown historic district in the pictureseque stream valley of the upper Western Branch of the Patapsco River, which is a very popular destination among antiques shoppers, and historical tourists with restaurants, eclectic boutique shops, coffee shops, a tea room and many historic sites. As of the 2000 U.S. Census, Ellicott City surpassed Towson, Maryland (county seat of neighboring Baltimore County) for the first time, as the largest unincorporated county seat in the country.

Ellicott City is listed among America’s most affluent communities.[4] Since 2005, Ellicott City has been ranked four times among the top “20 Best Places to Live in the United States” by Money and CNNMoney.com.[5][6][7][8]

The downtown area in the Patapsco Valley is often called “Historic Ellicott City” or “Old Ellicott City”, to distinguish it from the surrounding suburban unincorporated area that extends north to the Baltimore County line, south to the other large unincorporated town in Howard County, Columbia, and west to West Friendship.

For more information on buying or selling a house in Ellicott City, or anywhere in Maryland, contact a State 7 Realty Agent.

http://www.catonsville.org/

Catonsville is a census-designated place (CDP) in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. The population was 41,567 at the 2010 census.[1] The community lies to the west of Baltimore along the city’s border. Catonsville is dominated economically and demographically by the presence of theUniversity of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), a major public research university with close to 14,000 students.

For more information on buying or selling a house in Catonsville, or anywhere in Maryland, contact a State 7 Realty Agent. 

http://www.sykesville.net/

About Sykesville, MD (courtesy of Wikipedia):

The land on which Sykesville sits started out as part of the 3,000-acre (12 km2) Springfield Estate, owned by wealthy Baltimore shipbuilder William Patterson.[5] In 1803, Patterson’s daughter Elizabeth, married Napoléon Bonaparte‘s brother Jérôme, but when she arrived in Europe as Jérôme’s bride, Napoléon refused to let Betsy Patterson Bonaparte set foot on land. Napoleon refused the marriage of the two, and would not let Elizabeth set foot on France’s soil. He was determined that Jerome marry into royalty, and sent Betsy back home. Denied by Napoleon, she was never able to see her husband again, leaving her to raise their son alone in the United States. Upon the death of William in 1824, his son George Patterson inherited the estate. In 1825, George Patterson sold 1,000 acres (4.0 km2; 1.6 sq mi) of Springfield Estate to his friend and business associate, James Sykes.[6][7]

A tract of land on the Howard County side of the Patapsco River contained an old saw and grist mill. In 1830 Sykes replaced it with a newer mill and constructed a five-story stone hotel, to take care of railroad personnel and the tourist trade. In 1831 the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) extended itsmain line to “Horse Train Stop”, since Sykesville had yet to be named.[8] Other businesses moved into the area, including two general stores, new mills, churches and a post office. In 1832 the town managed to gain control of a barn across the Patapsco River, the dividing line between Carroll and Howard County, but the citizens were forced to return the barn under threat of federal troops.[citation needed]

Much of the town was destroyed by a flood in 1868, ending a water rights dispute between the Sykesville mill and the Elba Furnace when both were damaged.[9] The town was rebuilt on the Carroll County side of the river.[5]

The town was incorporated in 1904. A weekly newspaper, the Sykesville Herald, was founded in 1913 and published regularly until the 1980s.[5]

http://www.eldersburg.net/

About Eldersburg, MD (courtesy of Wikipedia):

Eldersburg is named after John Elder. The community was served by a post office in April 1850 in the Howard district of Anne Arundel County with the name “Eldersburgh”. In 1851, Howard County was formed, and in October 28, 1871, the post office moved to Carroll County, retaining the “Eldersburgh” spelling. In December 1894, “Eldersburgh” was shortened to “Eldersburg”.[2][3] The Moses Brown House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.[4] Wesley Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church was listed in 1984.[4]

For more information on buying or selling a house in Eldersburg, Sykesville, or anywhere in Maryland, contact a State 7 Realty Agent. 

http://www.baltimorecity.gov/

About Baltimore City (courtesy of Wikipedia):

Baltimore  is the largest city in the U.S. state of Maryland, and the 26th-most populous city in the country. It is the largest independent city in the United States.

Founded in 1729, Baltimore is the second largest seaport in the Mid-Atlantic.[17] Baltimore’s Inner Harbor was once the second leading port of entry for immigrants to the United States and a major manufacturing center.[18] After a decline in major manufacturing, industrialization and rail transportation, Baltimore shifted to a service-oriented economy, with the Johns Hopkins Hospital (founded 1889), and Johns Hopkins University(founded 1876), now the city’s top two employers.[19]

 Baltimore had a population of 622,104 in 2013; in 2010, that of Baltimore Metropolitan Area was 2.7 million, the 20th largest in the country.[20][21]

With hundreds of identified districts, Baltimore has been dubbed “a city of neighborhoods”. Famous residents have included the writers Edgar Allan Poe, Frederick Douglass and H.L. Mencken, jazz musician James “Eubie” Blake, singer Billie Holiday and baseball player Babe Ruth. In the War of 1812, Francis Scott Key wrote The Star-Spangled Banner, later the American national anthem, in the city.[22]

Almost a quarter of the jobs in the Baltimore region are in science, technology, engineering and math, in part attributed to its extensive undergraduate and graduate schools.[22]

For more information on buying or selling a house in Baltimore City, or anywhere in Maryland, contact a State 7 Realty Agent. 

 http://www.visitfrederick.org/

About Frederick, MD (courtesy of Wikipedia):

Frederick is a city and the county seat of Frederick County in the State of Maryland. Frederick has been an important crossroads community since it was located in colonial times at the intersection of an important north–south Indian trail, and east–west routes to the Chesapeake Bay both atBaltimore and what became Washington, D.C. and across the Appalachian mountains to the Ohio River watershed. The gateway to western Maryland is now within the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is part of a greater Washington-Baltimore-Arlington, DC-MD-VA-WV-PA Combined Statistical Area. The city’s population was 65,239 people at the 2010 United States Census, making it the second-largest incorporated city in Maryland, behind only Baltimore.

 Frederick is home to Frederick Municipal Airport (IATA: FDK), which primarily accommodates general aviation traffic, and to the county’s largest employer U.S. Army‘s Fort Detrick bioscience/communications research installation.[6] 

For more information on buying or selling a house in Frederick, or anywhere in Maryland, contact a State 7 Realty Agent.