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0591420. Towson ( / ˈtaʊsən /) [3] is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. The population was 55,197 as of the 2010 census. It is the county seat [4] of Baltimore County and the second-most populous unincorporated county seat in the United States (after Ellicott City, the ...
Baltimore County Public Library ( BCPL ), established in 1948, is a public library system located in central Maryland and headquartered in Towson, Maryland [4] [5] BCPL serves Baltimore County, Maryland, which surrounds but does not include the city of Baltimore. [6] Still, occasionally the two library systems share resources and expertise. [7]
Jordan Valinsky, CNN. May 12, 2024 at 6:16 AM. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images. Apple Store workers in Towson, Maryland, the first of the tech giant’s retail employees to unionize, made history again ...
Hampton National Historic Site. Hampton National Historic Site, in the Hampton area north of Towson, Baltimore County, Maryland, preserves a remnant of a vast 18th-century estate, including a Georgian manor house, gardens, grounds, and the original stone slave quarters. The estate was owned by the Ridgely family for seven generations, from 1745 ...
Maryland colonists turned to importing indentured and enslaved Africans to satisfy the labor demand. By the 18th century, Maryland had developed into a plantation colony and slave society, requiring extensive numbers of field hands for the labor-intensive commodity crop of tobacco. In 1700, the province had a population of about 25,000, and by ...
Opened. September 27, 1925. The Kelso Home for Girls, formerly the Kelso Home and Orphan Asylum in Baltimore, Maryland, was a 19th-century orphanage and school building for girls on East Baltimore Street in the Jonestown/Old Town neighborhood, east of the Jones Falls. It was founded by businessman and philanthropist Thomas Kelso, (1784–1878 ...
Founded in 1866 as Maryland's first training school for teachers, Towson University is a part of the University System of Maryland. Since its founding, the university has evolved into eight subsidiary colleges with over 20,000 students. Its 329-acre campus is situated in Baltimore County, Maryland eight miles north of downtown Baltimore.
Towson Town Center is a large indoor shopping mall located in Towson, Maryland. It was the largest indoor shopping mall in Maryland prior to the completion of Arundel Mills in late 2000 in Hanover and the 2007 expansion of Westfield Annapolis .