Harney, Maryland | |
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Unincorporated community | |
Location within the state of Maryland | |
Coordinates: 39°42′50″N 77°12′24″W / 39.71389°N 77.20667°W | |
Country | United States |
State | Maryland |
County | Caroll |
Time zone | Eastern (EST) (UTC-5) |
• Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
Harney (Monocacyville as late as 1892) is an unincorporated community in Carroll County, Maryland, USA.
Harney is located near the head of the Monocacy River to the northwest and is the site of crossroads: east/west Conover Road (named for a family that was at a defunct farm on the east of the town) and north/south Harney Road. Additional intersection at the ball field is Bowers Road off of Conover Road, and Baptist Road heads southwest from just south of the crossroads. Communities near Harney are Longville to the south,Emmitsburg (southwest) and in Pennsylvania, Natural Dam (west), Barlow 3.1 mi north, Two Taverns (north-northeast), Littlestown (east-northeast), and Kingsdale (east).
(Occasional deliveries to Harney from the store at the Natural Dam mill to the west provided mail from the Fairplay, Pennsylvania, route.)
* Other Myers Mills were at the 1863 Marsh Creek site depicted on Chapel Road by a Confederate cartographer, the 1919 Myers Mill that burned at Arendtsville, Pennsylvania,[35] and "Mairs Mill" west of Harney.[36]
** The Reaser Hose camp and adjoining [37] "Good Samaritan Masonic Camp"[38] were northwest of Harney at S. D. Reck's woods/dam on Rock Creek near the Monocacy [39] where there was a 1935 grove, clubhouse, and baseball field.)[40] The "Black Hole"[41] "near Harney"[42] was an additional recreation area in 1926.[43]