Hill Top, Maryland, is a

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, 2.4 km (1.5 mi) west-northwest of

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and 3.2 km (2 mi) east-southeast of Ironsides, on Hilltop Road, a loop off of

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(locally known as Port Tobacco Road), and about 7 miles west of

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. Hill Top existed as a community as early as 1850, in which year it is shown in the U.S. Federal Census as a census district. Hilltop is the seat of a Roman Catholic parish founded in 1851, whose first church building, St. Ignatius Church, was constructed in 1859. At the outbreak of the

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in 1861, a corps of

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artillery was stationed at Hill Top, a consequence of the county's perceived Southern sympathies.Donald G. Shomette: ''Lost Towns of Tidewater Maryland'', Tidewater Publishers, Centreville, Md., 2000, p. 228. Hill Top is in the

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watershed.

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