** Frenchtown, El Dorado County, California

** Frenchtown, Yuba County, California

** Frenchtown, Cecil County, Maryland

** Frenchtown Road

** Frenchtown Road

** The Battle of Perryville, in the American Civil War

** Perryville Early Childhood Special Education Center ( PK )

** Perryville Elementary School ( K-04 )

** Perryville High School ( 09-12 )

** Perryville Area Career & Technology Center ( 09-12 )

** Penn Line connecting Perryville, MD to Baltimore, MD and Washington D. C., and in the future will connect to SEPTA at Newark, DE.

** Cumberland Narrows in Maryland

** Cumberland Valley, in Pennsylvania and Maryland

** Maryland: a small corridor along the Youghiogheny River on the western border.

** Baltimore riot of 1968 ; Baltimore Maryland

** An F3 tornado away from the Westminster, Maryland city center injures 3 people and causes $ 5 million in damages.

** A lightning strike causes the crashing of Pan Am Flight 214 near Elkton, Maryland, killing 81 people.

** Governor George C. Wallace of Alabama is shot by Arthur Herman Bremer at a Laurel, Maryland political rally.

** Edwin Warfield, Governor of Maryland ( b. 1848 )

** John Rogers, American Continental Congressman for Maryland ( b. 1723 )

** The Preakness Stakes horse race is run for the first time in Baltimore, Maryland.

** Nuclear false alarm: the NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland detected purported massive Soviet nuclear strike.

** Battle of Antietam: Union forces defeat Confederate troops at Sharpsburg, Maryland, in the bloodiest day in U. S. history ( with over 22, 000 casualties ).

** The Beltway sniper attacks begin with 5 shootings in Montgomery County, Maryland.

** Montgomery County, Maryland

** Montpelier Mansion ( Laurel, Maryland ), a U. S. National Historic Landmark

** Maryland darter, Etheostoma sellare.

** University of Maryland, College Park, the flagship state university of Maryland

** College Park Airport in Prince Georges County, Maryland

** Wheaton High School, a high school in Montgomery County Maryland

** The parallel ( latitude line ) south of the then southernmost point in Philadelphia, measured to be at about 39 ° 43 ′ N and agreed upon as the Maryland – Pennsylvania line.

** A " North Line " along the meridian ( line of longitude ) from the tangent point to the Maryland Pennsylvania border.

** Rockville Pike ( Maryland Route 355 ), a road in Montgomery County, Maryland

** Wilton ( Wye Mills, Maryland ), listed on the NRHP in Maryland

* Frenchtown, Maryland ( disambiguation )

The abandoned segment from Porter, Delaware to Frenchtown, Maryland, the New Castle and Frenchtown Railroad Right-of-Way, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

The New-Castle and Frenchtown Turnpike Company was chartered in Delaware on January 24, 1809 and in Maryland on January 6, 1810.

It opened in 1815 and 1816, providing a turnpike from New Castle, Delaware on the Delaware Bay west-southwest to Old Frenchtown Wharf, Maryland on the Chesapeake Bay.

* Perryville, Maryland

Perryville is a town in Cecil County, Maryland, United States.

Colonel John Rodgers ( 1728 – 1791 ), who operated the ferry and tavern in Perryville, raised the 5th Company of the Maryland Militia.

Perryville is home to the largest linwood tree in Maryland, located at 50 Millcreek Road on an estate known formerly as the Anchorage.

During 2010 Perryville opened the first casino in Maryland ( Hollywood Casino Perryville ).

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In 1934 the PRR received a $ 77 million loan from the New Deal's Public Works Administration To complete the electrification project initiated in 1928, work was started January 27, 1937, on the main line from Paoli to Harrisburg ; the low-grade freight line from Morrisville through Columbia to Enola Yard in Pennsylvania ; the Port Road Branch from Perryville, Maryland to Columbia ; the Jamesburg Branch and Amboy Secondary freight line from Monmouth Junction to South Amboy ; and the Landover-South End freight line from Landover, Maryland through Washington to Potomac Yard in Alexandria, Virginia ( now called the Landover Subdivision and RF & P Subdivision of CSX ).

The Penn Line runs between Washington, D. C. and Perryville, Maryland on Amtrak's Northeast Corridor and is the fastest commuter rail line in North America, with trains of bi-level cars and electric locomotives operating at up to 125 mph.

* John Rodgers ( 1728 – 1791 ), colonel during the Revolutionary War and owner of Rodgers Tavern, Perryville, Maryland

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When Amtrak commenced nationwide operations on May 1, 1971, the Broadway Limited continued to use the all-PRR route, with a split at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania for trains to Washington, DC via Perryville, Maryland along the former Harrisburg, Portsmouth, Mount Joy and Lancaster Railroad, Columbia and Port Deposit Railway and Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad until November 30, 1975.

* April-The first railroad car ferry in the U. S., the Susquehanna enters service on the Susquehanna River between Havre de Grace and Perryville, Maryland.

The Thomas J. Hatem Memorial Bridge is a bridge carrying the traffic across the Susquehanna River on U. S. Route 40 between Havre de Grace and Perryville via Garrett Island in northeast Maryland.

In April 1836 the first railroad car ferry in the U. S., the Susquehanna entered service on the Susquehanna River between Havre de Grace and Perryville, Maryland.

Amtrak NPCU # 406 at the head end of the 40th Anniversary Exhibit Train at the Perryville ( MARC station ) | Perryville, Maryland, rail station on June 5, 2011.

* Woodlands ( Perryville, Maryland )