Ellerslie is an
unincorporated community
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and
census-designated place
A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only.
CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...
(CDP) in
Allegany County,
Maryland
Maryland ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It borders the states of Virginia to its south, West Virginia to its west, Pennsylvania to its north, and Delaware to its east ...
, 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 micropolitan statistical area of Cumberland, Maryland, and the surrounding economic region of Allegany County, Maryland, and Mineral County, West Virginia, in the United States.
As ...
.
The community is named for
Elderslie, Scotland, the birthplace of Scottish hero
William Wallace
Sir William Wallace (, ; 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 at the Battle of St ...
.
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
Cumberland ( ) is an area of North West England which was historically a county. The county was bordered by Northumberland to the north-east, County Durham to the east, Westmorland to the south-east, Lancashire to the south, and the Scottish ...
and is next to the
Pennsylvania-Maryland state line. To the north,
Pennsylvania Route 96 extends to
Hyndman and to
Bedford
Bedford is a market town in Bedfordshire, England. At the 2011 Census, the population was 106,940. Bedford is the county town of Bedfordshire and seat of the Borough of Bedford local government district.
Bedford was founded at a ford (crossin ...
. The town is situated in the valley of
Wills Creek, between the parallel ridges of
Little Allegheny Mountain 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, extending from near Bedford, Pennsylvania, to near Cumberland, Maryland. It is the northernmo ...
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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