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Welcome to Roller ...

Roller is located in Carroll County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Roller, you might consider that their post office opened in 1888.

Roller is 600 feet [183 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Roller lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Codes for Roller: 410, 443 & 667<3>

Communities Also Named Roller ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Roller - it's located in New Mexico.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Roller.

Websites for Roller ...

Chamber of Commerce:   www.carrollcountychamber.org/

Although we don't have any websites that are specific to Roller, the following might be of interest:

Communities near Roller ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Roller.

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 Roller. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Roller.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Roller. 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 Roller.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Roller. See our Newspapers Page for Roller.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Roller ...

Looking for more information about Roller? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Roller, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Roller.

Adding Roller to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Roller in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for Roller was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5>

From that list, the Roller post office opened in 1888. The Roller post office closed in 1900.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Roller.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Maryland's counties, including Carroll, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Roller - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 410 code has been Overlayed with one of the following codes: 443 or 667. New phone numbers in the Roller area will be assigned with one of these codes: 410, 443 or 667. As a result, placing a call in the Roller area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>A copy of the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/