Hill Top, Maryland

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Hill Top, Maryland, is a rural community in Charles County, 2.4 km (1.5 mi) west-northwest of Welcome and 3.2 km (2 mi) east-southeast of Ironsides,USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS): Feature Detail Report for: Hill Top, http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=154:3:6419589333401379::NO:3:P3_FID,P3_TITLE:590470%2CHill%20Top, (2011). on Hilltop Road, a loop off of Maryland Route 6 (locally known as Port Tobacco Road), and about 7 miles west of Port Tobacco. Hill Top existed as a community as early as 1850, in which year it is shown in the U.S. Federal Census as a census district.Seventh Census of the United States, 1850, National Archives Microfilm Publication M432, Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29; National Archives, Washington, D.C. Hilltop is the seat of a Roman Catholic parish founded in 1851, whose first church building, St. Ignatius Church, was constructed in 1859.Margaret Brown Klapthor and Paul Dennis Brown: The History of Charles County, Maryland, Charles County Tercentenary, Inc., La Plata, Md., 1958, pp. 121-122.

At the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, a corps of Union artillery was stationed at Hill Top, a consequence of the county's perceived Southern sympathies.Donald G. Shomette: Lost Towns of Tidewater Maryland, Tidewater Publishers, Centreville, Md., 2000, p. 228. Hill Top is in the Nanjemoy Creek watershed.