Ellerslie is an
unincorporated community
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and
census-designated place
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CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the count ...
(CDP) in
Allegany County,
Maryland
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, United States. As of the
2010 census it had a population of 572.
Ellerslie is part of the
Cumberland, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area
Cumberland, MD-WV MSA, or Cumberland Metro for short, is the Metropolitan Statistical Area of Cumberland, Maryland and the surrounding economic region of Allegany County, Maryland and Mineral County, West Virginia, in the United States.
A Metrop ...
.
The community is named for
Elderslie Elderslie may refer to one of the following locations:
* Elderslie, Scotland
Elderslie ( gd, Ach na Feàrna) is a village in the council area and historic county of Renfrewshire in west central Scotland. It chiefly serves as a commuter village, ...
, Scotland, the birthplace of Scottish hero
William Wallace
Sir William Wallace ( gd, Uilleam Uallas, ; Norman French: ; 23 August 1305) was a Scottish knight who became one of the main leaders during the First War of Scottish Independence.
Along with Andrew Moray, Wallace defeated an English army ...
.
History
In the early twentieth century, Ellerslie contained a planing mill and a Standard Oil Company pumping station.
Geography
Ellerslie lies along
Maryland Route 35, north of
Cumberland and is next to the
Pennsylvania-Maryland state line. To the north,
Pennsylvania Route 96 extends to
Hyndman and to
Bedford
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. The town is situated in the valley of
Wills Creek, between the parallel ridges of
Little Allegheny Mountain
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Arts and entertainment
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* ''Little'' (film), 2019 American comedy film
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to the west and
Wills Mountain
Wills Mountain is a quartzite-capped ridge in the Ridge and Valley physiographic province of the Appalachian Mountains in Pennsylvania and Maryland, United States, extending from near Bedford, Pennsylvania, to near Cumberland, Maryland. It is t ...
to the east.
Demographics
References
External links
Ellerslie Volunteer Fire CompanyEllerslie Information and History
Census-designated places in Allegany County, Maryland
Census-designated places in Maryland
Populated places in the Cumberland, MD-WV MSA
Cumberland, MD-WV MSA
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