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Welcome to Brightside ...So far, we found very little information about Brightside. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Brightside to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Brightside, please Contact Us. Brightside would have been located within present day Baltimore County<2>. The location of Brightside has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (ie- the GNIS).<3> While we don't have a date for the founding of Brightside, you might get a feel for it by knowing that during our research the earliest mention that we found (so far) was in a book dated 1895. While the community is gone, the present day location for Brightside is 240 feet [73 m] above sea level.<4>. Time Zone: The area where Brightside was located is in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time Brightside would have been located in the (410) area code. Websites for Brightside ...Chamber of Commerce: www.baltcountycc.com/ Although we don't have any websites that are specific to Brightside, the following might be of interest: Communities Also Named Brightside ...Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 5 communities that are also named Brightside - they are located in California, Massachusetts, New York, Ontario and Pennsylvania. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Brightside. Communities near Brightside ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Brightside.
To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy. We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Brightside. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Brightside. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Brightside. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Brightside. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Brightside. See our Newspapers Page for Brightside. Adding Brightside to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Brightside in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page. From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Brightside was in the book titled Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895). We also found Brightside on a map titled Rand McNally Map of Maryland (1911). For more details, see References and Mentions for Brightside. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for Baltimore County: www.co.ba.md.us/ The official website for State of Maryland: www.maryland.gov/ Footnotes ...
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