| Cockeysville,
Baltimore
County Zip Code(s): 21030
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History
Cockeysville was named
after the Cockey family which helped establish the town. Thomas Cockey
(1676-1737) settled in Limestone Valley in 1725 at Taylor's Hall (an
area now just north of Padonia Road and east of I-83). Joshua Frederick
Cockey (1765-1821) built one of the first homes in the area in 1798 and
built the first commercial structure (a hotel) in 1810 in what would
become the village of Cockeysville. His son, Judge Joshua F. Cockey
(1800-1891) lived lifelong in the village and built the train station
(what would be part of the Pennsylvania Railroad) and accompanying
commercial buildings in the 1830s.
Cockeysville was the scene of some
Civil War activity. Confederate soldiers pushed into the Baltimore area
intending to cut off the city and Washington from the north. On July
10, 1864 Cavalry General Bradley T. Johnson led troops
into Cockeysville, destroying telegraph lines and tearing up track along
the Northern Central Railway. They also burned the first bridge over the
Gunpowder Falls, just beyond nearby Ashland, Maryland.
After the war, Joshua F. Cockey, III
(1837-1920) founded the National Bank of Cockeysville (1891) and other
commercial ventures in the community, as well as developed dwellings
along the York Turnpike (now York Road) that made up the village of
Cockeysville.
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