Dayton, Maryland

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Dayton is an unincorporated community located in Howard County, Maryland, United States.

Dayton is located southwest of Baltimore and north of Washington, D.C., between Clarksville and Glenelg.

History

A postal office operated in the community from 21 July 1864 to present with brief stops in service during the American Civil War.{{cite web|title=Checklist of Maryland Post Offices |publisher=Smithsonian National Postal Museum |date=12 July 2007 |url=http://www.postalmuseum.si.edu/statepostalhistory/Maryland_Post_Offices.pdf |access-date=7 July 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140518050030/http://www.postalmuseum.si.edu/statepostalhistory/Maryland_Post_Offices.pdf |archive-date=18 May 2014 }} By 1878, the town expanded to three general stores and a wheelwright shop. One of the former is Maloney's General Store, built shortly after the Civil War, which served as a stagecoach stop and was later owned by Royal Harp III, Thomas Isaacs, Mr White, and the Grant family.{{cite book|title=Howard's Roads to the Past|page=87|publisher=Howard County Sesquicentennial Celebration Committee, 2001|year=2001}}

The Dayton single-room school house was located along Green Bridge Road. After a fire in the single-room schoolhouse for colored children, a new brown tile two-room school was built at the crossroads of Ten Oaks, Green Bridge and Howard roads, and the colored children moved to the old white school. The two-room school is now on property owned by RLO Contractors.{{cite book|title=Howard's Roads to the Past|page=88|publisher=Howard County Sesquicentennial Celebration Committee, 2001|year=2001}}

Modern Dayton

Dayton is in the 21036 zip code area and belongs to the 410 area code. The post office is still operating today.{{dubious|date=January 2013}}

Dayton is also the home to the annual Dayton Daze Parade that began in honor of Lenny Hobbs. The Hobbs Family gas station was prominent in the crossroads community.{{cite news|newspaper=The Washington Post|title=Md. Woman Dies In Tavern Fire|date=24 October 1944}}

The 21036 zip code is the wealthiest in the Baltimore metropolitan area as of 2013, with an average family net worth of $1.85 million, and is listed as a "super" zip code.{{cite web| url = http://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/subscriber-only/2013/08/16/wealthiest-zip-codes-in-the-baltimore.html| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140314164700/http://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/subscriber-only/2013/08/16/wealthiest-zip-codes-in-the-baltimore.html| archive-date = 2014-03-14| title = Wealthiest ZIP codes in the Baltimore area - Baltimore Business Journal}} The median home value was $975,000 in 2016, with an average home size of 3,410 square feet.{{Cite web|url=http://www.movoto.com/dayton-md/21036/demographics/|title=Dayton MD 21036 Demographics - Movoto| url-status = dead| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20160205072959/http://www.movoto.com/dayton-md/21036/demographics/| archive-date = 2016-02-05}}

In 2014, a zoning case to move a large industrial mulching operation operated by a Sandy Spring Bank executive and RLO{{clarify|date=September 2014}} president from Trinity Church in Elkridge to agricultural preservation land in Dayton prompted a large citizen reaction.{{cite news|newspaper=The Baltimore Sun|title=Ulman weighs in on mulching issue |date=29 April 2014|author=Amanda Yeager}}

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Category:Unincorporated communities in Howard County, Maryland

Category:Unincorporated communities in Maryland