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Thurmont is a town in Frederick County, Maryland, United States. The population was 6,935 at the 2020 census . The town is located in the northern part of Frederick County (north of Frederick , the county seat ), approximately ten miles from the Pennsylvania border, along U.S. Highway 15 .
MD 77 links Thurmont with western Carroll County through the communities of Graceham, Rocky Ridge, and Detour in the Monocacy River valley. MD 77 was constructed from Thurmont east to Detour in the 1920s and early 1930s. A disjoint section of MD 77 was built between Cavetown and Foxville in the late 1930s. The portions of the modern highway ...
[36] [47] The MD 77 interchange originally consisted of one two-way ramp in the northeast quadrant of the junction. [48] The old alignment of US 15 through Catoctin Furnace and Thurmont was designated MD 806 by 1960. [40] US 15's interchange with MD 550 was built in 1972. [46] Several other sections of US 15 were bypassed in the 1960s.
The Loys Station Covered Bridge is a multiple king post wooden covered bridge near Thurmont, Maryland. The bridge was burned by an arsonist in 1991 and rebuilt using surviving framing. The original bridge spanned 90 feet in one span, but has since been modified with a pier at the middle of the span. [ 2 ]
A locator map showing Frederick County in Maryland. David Benbennick made this map. For more information, see Commons:United States county locator maps. Date: 12 February 2006 (original upload date) Source: No machine-readable source provided. Own work assumed (based on copyright claims). Author: No machine-readable author provided.
Cunningham Falls State Park is a public recreation area located west of Thurmont, Maryland, in the United States.The state park is the home of Cunningham Falls, the largest cascading waterfall in Maryland, a 43-acre (17 ha) man-made lake, and the remains of a historic iron furnace. [4]
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Maryland Route 806 (MD 806) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland.The state highway runs a total of 4.05 miles (6.52 km) in two segments from U.S. Route 15 (US 15) near Catoctin Furnace north to Roddy Creek Road near Thurmont.