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Emmitsburg, Maryland

Emmitsburg was founded in 1785 and is in Frederick County, Maryland, United States, just south of the Mason-Dixon line separating Maryland from Pennsylvania. The population was 2,814 at the 2010 census. As of the 2010 census it has 2,814 people. It is the home of Mount St. Mary's University. The National Emergency Training Center, National Fallen Firefighters Memorial and Emergency Management Institute are also located in Emmitsburg on the former campus of St. Joseph's College.

Located at 39.7047, -77.3253 (Lat. / Lng.), about 0 miles away.
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Populated places in Frederick County, Maryland, Towns in Maryland, Populated places established in 1785, 1785 establishments in Maryland

Cumberland Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania

Cumberland Township is a township in Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 5,718 at the 2000 census. In 1863, the American Civil War battle of Gettysburg took place mainly in Cumberland Township.

Located at 39.7333, -77.2581 (Lat. / Lng.), about 4 miles away.
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Populated places established in 1733, Townships in Adams County, Pennsylvania

Carroll Valley, Pennsylvania

Carroll Valley is a borough in Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 3,876 at the 2010 census.

Located at 39.7478, -77.3789 (Lat. / Lng.), about 4 miles away.
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Populated places established in 1974, Boroughs in Adams County, Pennsylvania

Freedom Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania

Freedom Township is a township in Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 844 at the 2000 census.

Located at 39.7664, -77.2981 (Lat. / Lng.), about 4 miles away.
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Populated places established in 1739, Townships in Adams County, Pennsylvania, 1739 establishments in the Thirteen Colonies

Fairfield, Pennsylvania

Fairfield is a borough in Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 507 at the 2010 census.

Located at 39.7872, -77.3694 (Lat. / Lng.), about 6 miles away.
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Highland Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania

Created in 1863 from parts of Hamiltonban, Cumberland, and Franklin Townships, Highland Township is a township in Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 825 at the 2000 census.

Located at 39.8, -77.2997 (Lat. / Lng.), about 7 miles away.
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Populated places established in 1733, Townships in Adams County, Pennsylvania

Liberty Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania

Liberty Township is a township in Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,063 at the 2000 census.

Located at 39.7578, -77.3539 (Lat. / Lng.), about 4 miles away.
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Populated places established in 1736, Townships in Adams County, Pennsylvania

Mount St. Mary's University

Mount St. Mary's University, also known as The Mount, is a private, liberal arts, Catholic university in the Catoctin Mountains near Emmitsburg, Maryland. It was founded by French émigré Father John DuBois (Père Jean Dubois) in 1808 and is the oldest independent Catholic college in the United States. (It is the second oldest Catholic college in the United States, after Georgetown. ) The school became co-educational in 1972.

Located at 39.682, -77.353 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Knott Arena

Knott Arena is a 3,121-seat multi-purpose sports arena at Mount Saint Mary's University, in Emmitsburg, Maryland. It was built in 1987 and is home to the Mount St. Mary's Mountaineers men's basketball team.

Located at 39.6795, -77.3464 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Raven Rock Mountain Complex

The Raven Rock Mountain Complex (RRMC) is a United States government facility on Raven Rock, a mountain in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It is located in Liberty Township, Adams County, about 14 km east of Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, and 10 km north-northeast of Camp David, Maryland. It is also called the Raven Rock Military Complex, or simply Site R.

Located at 39.734, -77.419 (Lat. / Lng.), about 5 miles away.
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Military facilities in Pennsylvania, Disaster preparedness in the United States, Nuclear bunkers, Buildings and structures in Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States nuclear command and control, Continuity of government in the United States, Secret places

Marsh Creek (Monocacy River)

Marsh Creek is a 26.6-mile-long tributary of the Monocacy River in south-central Pennsylvania and north-central Maryland in the United States. Marsh Creek and Rock Creek join below Gettysburg and the Gettysburg Battlefield to form the Monocacy River. The height of land between Marsh and Rock creeks is the site of the Battle of Gettysburg. There is a little known whitewater section running from Old US Route 15 to Mason Dixon Road featuring some Class III action when the water is high.

Located at 39.7183, -77.2272 (Lat. / Lng.), about 5 miles away.
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Streams of Maryland, Rivers of Pennsylvania, Landforms of Frederick County, Maryland, Geography of Adams County, Pennsylvania, Tributaries of the Monocacy River

National Fallen Firefighters Memorial

National Fallen Firefighters Memorial since 1990 is officially designated by the United States Congress as the National Memorial to career and volunteer fallen firefighters. Located in Emmitsburg, Maryland, it was conceived as a tribute to American fire service. The memorial was constructed in 1981 on the campus of the National Fire Academy. Plaques listing the names of firefighters encircle the plaza from the same year.

Located at 39.695, -77.3258 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Emergency Management Institute

The Emergency Management Institute of the United States Federal Emergency Management Agency conducts courses for local and regional public agency emergency managers and interested members of the public, where the courses are intended to improve the level of national emergency responsiveness to all forms of man-made and natural disasters. It is based in Emmitsburg, Maryland.

Located at 39.6944, -77.3283 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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WMTB-FM

WMTB-FM is the student radio station of Mount Saint Mary's. Licensed to Emmitsburg, Maryland, USA the station offers mainly student-produced programming daytime/evenings, while overnights and mornings are used by "Maryland Catholic Radio" to broadcast EWTN Radio.

Located at 39.6839, -77.3569 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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College radio stations in Maryland, Catholic radio stations, Radio stations established in 1969, 1969 establishments in Maryland

National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton

The National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in Emmitsburg, Maryland, is a U.S. religious site and educational center that pays tribute to the life and mission of Elizabeth Ann Seton (August 28, 1774 – January 4, 1821), the first native-born citizen of the United States to be canonized by the Roman Catholic Church. It is both a Minor Basilica and a National Shrine.

Located at 39.6978, -77.3311 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Rocky Ridge, Maryland

Rocky Ridge is an unincorporated community in Frederick County, Maryland, United States. Old Mill Road Bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

Located at 39.605, -77.3175 (Lat. / Lng.), about 7 miles away.
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Populated places in Frederick County, Maryland, Unincorporated communities in Maryland

Keysville, Maryland

Keysville is an unincorporated community in Carroll County, Maryland, United States. Terra Rubra was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

Located at 39.6339, -77.2586 (Lat. / Lng.), about 6 miles away.
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Populated places in Carroll County, Maryland, Unincorporated communities in Maryland

Graceham, Maryland

Graceham is an unincorporated community in Frederick County, Maryland, United States. Graceham is home to Graceham Moravian Church and Parsonage.

Located at 39.6142, -77.3817 (Lat. / Lng.), about 7 miles away.
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Populated places in Frederick County, Maryland, Unincorporated communities in Maryland

Double Pipe Creek

Double Pipe Creek is a major tributary of the Monocacy River in Carroll County and Frederick County in Maryland, located several miles north and west of Westminster. The creek is only 1.6 miles long, but is formed by the confluence of two much longer streams, Big Pipe Creek and Little Pipe Creek.

Located at 39.6012, -77.2703 (Lat. / Lng.), about 8 miles away.
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Landforms of Carroll County, Maryland, Chesapeake Bay Watershed, Landforms of Frederick County, Maryland, Streams of Maryland, Tributaries of the Monocacy River

Bridge in Cumberland Township

The Cunningham Bridge is an historic place on the national register in Adams County, Pennsylvania, near Greenmount, Pennsylvania. The three-section iron bridge spans west-to-east from Franklin Township to Cumberland Township and is the oldest example of a Baltimore truss. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as "Bridge in Cumberland Township" in 1988 despite being in Franklin Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania.

Located at 39.7575, -77.285 (Lat. / Lng.), about 4 miles away.
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Greenmount, Pennsylvania

Greenmount, Pennsylvania, is a populated place southwest of the Gettysburg Battlefield at Marsh Creek along the Emmitsburg Road (U.S. Route 15 Business). Neighboring communities are Fairfield (west), Gettysburg (north), Round Top (northeast), Barlow (east), Harney MD (southeast), and Fairplay, Pennsylvania (south).

Located at 39.7658, -77.2723 (Lat. / Lng.), about 5 miles away.
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Unincorporated communities in Adams County, Pennsylvania

Maria Furnace

Maria Furnace is a South Mountain populated place on Toms Creek (Monocacy River) west of Fairfield, Pennsylvania, that was the location of an 1822 blast furnace until operations were moved to Caledonia.

Located at 39.775, -77.405 (Lat. / Lng.), about 6 miles away.
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1822 establishments in the United States, Populated places established in 1822, Unincorporated communities in Adams County, Pennsylvania

Iron Springs, Pennsylvania

Iron Springs is a South Mountain populated place on Toms Creek (Monocacy River) west of Fairfield, Pennsylvania, that is near the location of the 1822 Maria Furnace.

Located at 39.775, -77.405 (Lat. / Lng.), about 6 miles away.
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Unincorporated communities in Adams County, Pennsylvania

Virginia Mills, Pennsylvania

Virginia Mills, Pennsylvania was an 1889 stop on the Western Extension of the Baltimore and Harrisburg Railway near Fairfield, Pennsylvania and the site of the 1863 Battle of Fairfield in the American Civil War. The railway was routed near the mill site on the John Linn farm and an 1838 Tapeworm Railroad viaduct on the Rev. A. W. Geigley farm. http://news. google. com/newspapers?id=6askAAAAIBAJ&sjid=P_8FAAAAIBAJ&pg=5897,1798508&dq=virginia-mills+viaduct&hl=en

Located at 39.8028, -77.3761 (Lat. / Lng.), about 7 miles away.
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Former populated places in Pennsylvania

Straw Family Stadium

E.T. Straw Family Stadium is a baseball venue in Emmitsburg, Maryland, United States. It is home to the Mount St. Mary's Mountaineers baseball team of the NCAA Division I Northeast Conference. The stadium is part of the larger PNC Sports Complex. In 2007, the stadium underwent $400,000 renovations, thanks to the donation of Mount St. Mary's alumnus E.T. Straw. The venue was dedicated to Straw as a result.

Located at 39.6783, -77.3455 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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College baseball venues in the United States, Baseball venues in Maryland, Mount St. Mary's Mountaineers baseball