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Welcome to Foys Hill ...So far, we found very little information about Foys Hill. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Foys Hill to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Foys Hill, please Contact Us. Foys Hill would have been located within present day Cecil County<2>. The location of Foys Hill has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (ie- the GNIS).<3> While we don't have a date for the founding of Foys Hill, 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 Foys Hill is 220 feet [67 m] above sea level.<4>. Time Zone: The area where Foys Hill was located is in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time If Foys Hill still existed, it would have been in the (410) area code. Websites for Foys Hill ...Chamber of Commerce: www.cecilchamber.com/ Although we don't have any websites that are specific to Foys Hill, the following might be of interest: Communities near Foys Hill ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Foys Hill.
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 Foys Hill. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Foys Hill. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Foys Hill. 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 Foys Hill. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Foys Hill. See our Newspapers Page for Foys Hill. Adding Foys Hill to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Foys Hill 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 Foys Hill was in the book titled Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895). We also found Foys Hill on a map titled Rand McNally Map of Maryland (1911). For more details, see References and Mentions for Foys Hill. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for Cecil County: www.ccgov.org/ The official website for State of Maryland: www.maryland.gov/ Footnotes ...
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