Benson
Benson is an unincorporated community in Harford County, Maryland, United States. Benson is located at the Harford county junction of U.S. Route 1 and Maryland Route 147, 3 miles southwest of Bel Air and 19.45 miles northeast of Baltimore.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: unincorporated community in Harford County, Maryland, United States
- Also known as: “Benson, Harford County, Maryland”, “Benson, Maryland”, and “Benson, MD”
- Postal code: 21018
Places of Interest
Highlights include Whitaker’s Mill Historic District and Graystone Lodge.
Whitaker’s Mill Historic District
Park
Photo: Eminonuk, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Whitaker's Mill Historic District is a national historic district near Joppa, Harford County, Maryland, United States. It includes three early- to mid-19th-century buildings: the 2+1⁄2-story rubble stone Whitaker's Mill built in 1851, the 1+1⁄2-story rubble stone miller's house, and the log-and-frame Magness House, begun about 1800 as the miller's house for the first mill on the site.
Graystone Lodge
Historic building
Photo: KLOTZ, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Graystone Lodge, also known as Hoskins-Guidice House, is a historic structure located at Bel Air, Harford County, Maryland, United States. It is a two-story stone building built about 1781, with a mid-19th century frame addition.
Little Falls Meetinghouse
Church
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Little Falls Meetinghouse is a historic Friends meeting house located at Fallston, Harford County, Maryland, United States. It was constructed in 1843 and is a sprawling one-story fieldstone structure with shallow-pitched gable roof and a shed-roofed porch.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fallston and Bel Air.
Fallston
Village
Fallston is a census-designated place in Harford County, Maryland, United States. The population was 8,958 at the 2010 census, up from 8,427 in 2000. Fallston is a semi-rural community consisting mostly of farms and suburban-like developments.
Bel Air
Photo: Orade, Public domain.
Bel Air, along with Bel Air North and South, is a Central Maryland suburb of Baltimore, with a combined population of 75,000.
Jerusalem
Hamlet
Jerusalem is an unincorporated community in Harford County, Maryland, United States. It is the location of the historic Jerusalem Mill Village and Jericho Covered Bridge, both listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Jerusalem is situated 3 miles south of Benson.
Benson
- Categories: unincorporated community in the United States and locality
- Location: Harford County, Maryland, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
39.50539° or 39° 30′ 19″ northLongitude
-76.38635° or 76° 23′ 11″ westElevation
430 feet (131 metres)Open location code
87F5GJ47+5FOpenStreetMap ID
node 157637878OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Persian—“Benson” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “本森 (馬里蘭州哈福德縣)”
- Chinese: “本森”
- French: “Benson”
- Irish: “Benson”
- Persian: “بنسون، شهرستان هارفورد، مریلند”
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Notable Places Nearby
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