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Plan a Road Trip > Explore America > Maryland > Laurel |
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Time Zone
Eastern
Latitude/Longitude
39.09° /-76.87°
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HIGH: 66
LOW: 43
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Once known as Laurel Factory, this commercial center midway between Baltimore and Washington had its beginnings as a mill town on the Patuxent River in the early 19th century. The Laurel Museum, located in an 1840s mill workers' home, explores the town's industrial past through photographs, tools, and artifacts. For a taste of life at the other end of the economic spectrum, you can visit Montpelier Mansion. The Georgian manor house, which was visited by luminaries such as George Washington and Abigail Adams, has been furnished in the style of a country residence of 1830 and is at the center of a 70-acre estate that has remained remarkably untouched by modern development. A more recent addition to area, the National Cryptographic Museum, offers a fascinating glimpse behind the secrets of national security and the allied arts of making and breaking coded messages. Exhibits cover crytographic efforts from the Civil War to World War II and the Cold War. You can also head to Laurel Park race course for thoroughbred horse racing.
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