Rawlings is an unincorporated community and

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(CDP) in Allegany County,

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, United States, on the McMullen Highway (

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). As of the 2010 census, the Rawlings CDP had a population of 693. The community was named after Moses Rawlings, an officer in the Revolutionary War. It was originally known as "Rawlings Station" after a

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was established on the

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there on March 7, 1856.

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Census-designated places in Allegany County, Maryland Census-designated places in Maryland Cumberland, MD-WV MSA Populated places in the Cumberland, MD-WV MSA Populated places on the North Branch Potomac River {{AlleganyCountyMD-geo-stub