Buckeystown is an

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and

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(CDP) in Frederick County,

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, United States. As of the 2010 census the population was 1,019. Buckeystown Historic District and Buckingham House and Industrial School Complex were listed on the

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in 1982. Carrollton Manor was listed in 1997. Former Congressman

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lives on a farm in the town.

History

In 1731, Meridith Davis received a patent for a tract of land called “Good Luck” on which the future village of Buckeystown developed. The fertile, mostly flat land and

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were enticing to European immigrants and settlers moving west into the newly opened Monocacy Hundred territory. Among these earliest settlers in the region were Henry Ballenger and Josiah Ballenger Sr.,

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who moved into the

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from the Colony of New Jersey. Members of the Ballenger family as well as the Davis Family who were also Quakers organized a Society of Friends at “Monoquesey” onocacyand Meridith Davis donated land from his “Good Luck” tract on which to build a meetinghouse in 1739. Though the meeting at Monocacy was short-lived, with many of its early members moving into the

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to join larger Quaker communities there, the Society of Friends near Buckeystown was among the first religious organizations effected within present-day Frederick County and western Maryland. During the Revolutionary War period, brothers John and George Buckey settled on the old “Good Luck” tract and initiated commercial and industrial establishments which led to the formation of the village. Much of the town's growth in the 19th century was supported by the Baker family who purchased the Buckey

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in 1832 and later founded the town's

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, Methodist Church, and an industrial school for boys.

Geography

Buckeytown is located in southern Frederick County along Maryland Route 85, which leads north to

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, the

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, and south to

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near the

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. The CDP extends east as far as the

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leads east from Buckeystown to Urbana. According to the

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, the Buckeystown CDP has a total area of , of which , or 0.55%, is water.

Demographics

Churches

Two United Methodist churches, a Roman Catholic parish (St. Joseph's), and an Anglican church (St. Michael the Archangel Anglican Catholic Church) are located in Buckeystown.

References

Census-designated places in Frederick County, Maryland Census-designated places in Maryland {{FrederickCountyMD-geo-stub