Suman was

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in Jackson Township,

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, in the

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. Old Suman Road is in the area.

History

An older variant name of the village was Sumanville. It was originally laid out in 1873 by Isaac C. B. Suman (1831-1911), who had served during the Civil War as Colonel and commander of the

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. A post office was established and operated until 1894. A

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sat at Sumanville. A nation-wide medical register and directory from 1886 reported the town's population as two-hundred. Suman was near the

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was the first common carrier railroad and the oldest railroad in the United States, with its first section opening in 1830. Merchants from Baltimore, which had benefited to some extent from the construction of ...

line that ran through the area (which is now part of

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). A derailment took place outside of Suman station in 1923.

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