Editing Aberdeen, Maryland (section)

===Village of Aberdeen===
The Village of Aberdeen was a development by Edmund Law Rogers around 1800.<ref name=EB/>  The name originated from its mother city, Aberdeen, Scotland, as a result of the close relationship the Rogers family of Baltimore had with their cousin, the [[George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen|Earl of Aberdeen]], who became [[Prime Minister of Great Britain]] in 1852.<ref>[Plat of Aberdeen, Edmund Law Rogers. 1852]</ref> The area now known as Aberdeen is a cluster of three communities<ref name="aberdeenroom.com">[http://www.aberdeenroom.com/aberdeenroom/exhibits.html The Aberdeen Room – Exhibits – Aberdeen: Its Three Components]</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.mdgenweb.org/harford/aberdeen.html |title=Harford County, MDGenWeb – Aberdeen |access-date=2008-04-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080820082618/http://www.mdgenweb.org/harford/aberdeen.html |archive-date=2008-08-20 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* Hall's Cross Roads, located<ref>[http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=1258 Historical Marker DataBase – Halls' Cross Roads]</ref> at the intersection of Old Philadelphia Road (MD-7, in some places known as Old Post Road, then known as Philadelphia Post Road) and Bush River Neck Road<ref>[http://www.aberdeenroom.com/aberdeenroom/walking.html Historic Tour of Hall's Cross Roads]</ref> (then the main road from Swan Creek {{coord|39|31|28.41|N|76|8|17.75|W|type:city}})
* Mechanicsville, located<ref>[http://maryland.hometownlocator.com/maps/BIGmap,n,Mechanicsville%20%28historical%29,FID,1698243.cfm Mechanicsville (historical) in Harford County, MD]</ref> at {{coord|39|36|7.3836|N|76|19|10.8516|W|type:city}}
*The Village of Aberdeen<ref name="aberdeenroom.com"/>