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The Middletown Historic District comprises the historic center of
Middletown, Maryland
Middletown is a town in Frederick County, Maryland, United States. The population was 4,136 as of the 2010 census. Located in the Middletown Valley that stretches between the Catoctin Mountains on the east and South Mountain (Maryland and Pennsyl ...
. Middletown became the chief community in the Middletown Valley in the late 18th century, retaining its importance until the 1930s, when the expanding influence of
Frederick, Maryland
Frederick is a city in, and the county seat of, Frederick County, Maryland, United States. Frederick's population was 78,171 people as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the List of municipalities in Maryland, second-largest ...
, the construction of a bypass on
US 40 and the abandonment of the
Hagerstown and Frederick Railway produced a gradual decline. The historic district preserves many mid-19th-century buildings in the central downtown area. To the east, the district includes early 20th-century houses built along the trolley right-of-way, forming a
streetcar suburb
A streetcar suburb is a residential community whose growth and development was strongly shaped by the use of streetcar lines as a primary means of transportation. Such suburbs developed in the United States in the years before the automobile, when ...
.
The
Airview Historic District includes a related area of early 20th century development to the east of town along the
National Pike, separated from the main district by a section of newer development.
Gallery
Image:Middletown, Maryland historic district 2.JPG, Late Victorian houses, West Main Street
See also
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Stonebraker and Harbaugh-Shafer Building
References
External links
*, including photo in 2004, at Maryland Historical Trust
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland
Historic districts in Frederick County, Maryland
National Register of Historic Places in Frederick County, Maryland
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