Klej Grange
| Klej Grange, Maryland | |
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| Unincorporated community | |
 Klej Grange
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| Coordinates: 38°05′52″N 75°27′16″W / 38.09778°N 75.45444°WCoordinates: 38°05′52″N 75°27′16″W / 38.09778°N 75.45444°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Maryland |
| County | Worcester |
| Elevation | 30 ft (9 m) |
| Time zone | Eastern (EST) (UTC-5) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
| ZIP code | 21851 |
| Area code(s) | 410, 443, and 667 |
| GNIS feature ID | 585326 |
Klej Grange /ˌklɛdʒ ˈɡreɪndʒ/ is a small unincorporated community 3 miles (5 km) northwest of in Worcester County, Maryland. It is located at the intersection of Klej Grange, Betheden Church, and Ward Roads.
The acronym "Klej" was coined by Joseph William Drexel from the initials of the names of his four daughters (Katherine, Lucy, Elizabeth, and Josephine), and was combined with "Grange", perhaps a reference to the National Grange.
First known as Trap, or Traptown, then for many years in the nineteenth century as Lindseyville, the community originally arose at the crossing of the roads leading from Mattapony Landing on the Pocomoke River to Sandy Hill (later ) and from Snow Hill to Stevens Landing (now Pocomoke City). In 1878, Drexel purchased a substantial part of the estate of Matthias Lindsey, after whose family the crossroads had been known, to create a planned community where low cost farmland would be offered to benefit the poor. Drexel named Austin Thomas Byrne as superintendent of the project; Byrne surveyed and platted Drexel's agrarian-industrial experiment.
Drexel and his brother Anthony, the founder of Drexel University, were sons of Francis Martin Drexel, founder of the banking house of Drexel & Co. A "Famous Americans" biographical capsule notes of Joseph W. Drexel:
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