Editing Cockeysville, Maryland

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'''Cockeysville''' is a [[census-designated place]] (CDP) in [[Baltimore County, Maryland]], United States. The population was 20,776 at the [[2010 United States Census|2010 census]].<ref name="Census 2010">{{Cite web|url=https://www.census.gov |title=Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): Cockeysville CDP, Maryland |publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]] |access-date=February 22, 2012 }}</ref>

==History==
Cockeysville was named after the Cockey family who 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 [[Interstate 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), was a lifelong resident in the village. As a businessman before being appointed as judge, in the 1830s he built the train station (which would be a stop on the [[Pennsylvania Railroad]]) and accompanying commercial buildings.

Cockeysville was the scene of some [[American Civil War|Civil War]] activity. [[Confederate States Army|Confederate]] soldiers pushed into the [[Baltimore]] area, intending to cut off the city and [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] from the north. On July 10, 1864, Confederate cavalry under General [[Bradley Tyler Johnson|Bradley T. Johnson]] entered Cockeysville, destroying telegraph lines and track along the [[Northern Central Railway]]. They also burned the first bridge over the [[Gunpowder River|Gunpowder Falls]], just beyond nearby Ashland.

[[File:Sherwood Church Cockeysville.jpg|thumb|Sherwood Episcopal Church in Cockeysville, founded in 1837]] 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 developing dwellings along the York Turnpike (now [[Maryland Route 45|York Road]]) that made up the village of Cockeysville.

[[Stone Hall (Cockeysville, Maryland)|Stone Hall]] was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1973.<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|2008a}}</ref> [[Baltimore County School No. 7]] was listed in 2000.<ref name="nris"/>

==Local institutions==
Cockeysville is home to the Cockeysville Branch of the [[Baltimore County Public Library]]<ref>[http://www.bcpl.info/hours-locations/cockeysville Cockeysville Branch]</ref> and the [[Historical Society of Baltimore County]].

===Schools in Cockeysville===
Public schools:
* Padonia International Elementary
* Warren Elementary School
* Cockeysville Middle School
* [[Dulaney High School]]
Private schools:
* St. Joseph School (Pre-K - 8)

===Grand Lodge===
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The Grand Lodge of Maryland, Ancient, Free, and Accepted Masons,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mdmasons.org/|title=The Grand Lodge of Maryland|website=mdmasons.org}}</ref> is located in Cockeysville on a {{convert|250|acre|km2|adj=on}} campus. It includes a castle-like structure known as Bonnie Blink ("Beautiful View" in Scots), which is the retirement home for Master Masons, Eastern Star ladies and eligible family members. Located throughout the Grand Lodge are detailed, hand-laid tile storyboards depicting [[Masonic]] themes.

Adjacent to the Grand Lodge building is the Freemason's Hall, containing the Maryland Grand Lodge Museum. The museum has the desk that [[George Washington]] resigned his commission on, prior to becoming president, a rare Latin Bible from 1482, and some jewels and regalia of Maryland's past Grand Masters.

==Commerce and industry==
The Texas [[Quarry]], near of the intersection of I-83 and Warren Road, dating back to the 19th century, produces [[limestone]] and [[marble]], including the marble used in the first phase of construction (1848–54) of the [[Washington Monument]], the whiter portion towards the bottom half of the monument. During the second phase of construction (1880–84) the monument had to be finished using a slightly different-colored stone, most of which came from the [[Beaver Dam Quarry]] (now Beaverdam Pond) near the intersection of Beaver Dam Road and McCormick Road.<ref>{{google maps|url=https://maps.google.com/?ll=39.469065,-76.65247&spn=0.033924,0.054846&t=h&z=14&vpsrc=6 |title=Marble quarries near Cockeysville, MD |access-date=January 31, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://archive.org/details/TheHistoryOfTheMarbleQuarriesInBaltimoreCountyMaryland |title=The history of the marble quarries in Baltimore County, Maryland |author=William D. Purdum |date=March 5, 1940 |access-date=June 27, 2014}}</ref>

Blocks of local marble were also used in 1836 as rail supports in the [[track bed]] for the Padonia Road section of the [[Baltimore and Susquehanna Railroad]] (which later became part of the [[Northern Central Railway]]); the use of marble instead of wood was an experiment that was soon after abandoned.<ref>[http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=4340 Baltimore and Susquehanna Railroad Marble Track Bed] from the Historical Marker Database</ref>

[[File:Beaver Dam Quarry Plate XX WBClark 1898.jpg|thumb|Beaver Dam Quarry in 1898]]

==Geography==
Cockeysville is located at {{Coord|39|28|24|N|76|37|36|W|type:city}} (39.473273, &minus;76.626703),<ref name="GR1">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/geographies/reference-files/time-series/geo/gazetteer-files.html|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=2011-04-23|date=2011-02-12|title=US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990}}</ref> north of the Baltimore Beltway ([[Interstate 695 (Maryland)|Interstate 695]]) along [[Interstate 83]] and York Road. It is bordered on the east by [[Loch Raven Reservoir]], on the south by [[Timonium, Maryland|Timonium]], and on the west by rural Baltimore County. Most commercial activity is concentrated along York Road.{{Citation needed|date=January 2009}}

According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the CDP has a total area of {{convert|29.9|km2|order=flip}}, of which {{convert|29.5|km2|order=flip}} is land and {{convert|0.4|km2|order=flip}} of it (1.21%) is water.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.census.gov |title=Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Cockeysville CDP, Maryland |publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]] |access-date=February 22, 2012 }}</ref>

==Geology==
[[File:Monolith Fig 1 Plate XXII WBClark 1898.jpg|thumb|right|Thirty-Eight Ton Monolith made from Cockeysville Marble]]
The [[Precambrian]], [[Cambrian]], or [[Ordovician]] [[Cockeysville Marble]] underlies much of Cockeysville and has been quarried there.<ref name=MGS1968>''Geologic Map of Maryland'', 1968. Cleaves, E. T., Edwards, J. Jr., and Glaser, J. D.  Maryland Geological Survey.  Scale 1:250,000.</ref>

==Transportation==

===Roads===
*[[Baltimore-Harrisburg Expressway]] (I-83)
*[[Beaver Dam Road]]
*[[Cranbrook Road]]
*[[McCormick Road (Hunt Valley)|McCormick Road]]
*[[Padonia Road]]
*[[Maryland Route 145|Paper Mill Road/Ashland Road]] (MD-145)
*[[Shawan Road]]
*[[Maryland Route 943|Warren Road]] (MD-943)
*[[Maryland Route 45|York Road]] (MD-45)

===Public transportation===
The [[Maryland Transit Administration]]'s [[Baltimore Light RailLink|Light RailLink]] line runs through Cockeysville. The [[Warren Road (Baltimore Light Rail station)|Warren Road stop]] is the stop in the area.

[[Route 93 (MTA Maryland LocalLink)|Bus Route 93]] operates along York and some other roads in the area.

===Northern Central Railway===
[[File:NCRY Cockeysville FrtSta 2010a.jpg|thumb|right|The former Cockeysville freight station in 2011]]

The area used to be served by the [[Northern Central Railway]], a wholly owned subsidiary of the [[Pennsylvania Railroad|Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR)]]. Located on the PRR's Baltimore-Harrisburg mainline, Cockeysville saw the passage of many named interstate passenger trains as late as the 1960s, such as the ''Liberty Limited'' and the [[General (train)|''General'']] to Chicago.

President [[Abraham Lincoln]] traveled through Cockeysville on the Northern Central Railway en route to [[Gettysburg, Pennsylvania]], to deliver the [[Gettysburg Address]] in 1863.  Less than two years later, on April 21, 1865, Lincoln's funeral train also passed through Cockeysville on its way from [[Washington, D.C.]], to his final resting place at [[Springfield, Illinois]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Daniel Carroll Toomey |title=Baltimore During the Civil War |publisher=Toomey Press |year=1997 |isbn=0-9612670-7-0 |page=170 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://rogerjnorton.com/Lincoln51.html|title=Abraham Lincoln's Funeral Train|website=rogerjnorton.com}}</ref>

South of Cockeysville, the Baltimore Light RailLink uses the [[Right-of-way (transportation)|corridor]] established by the predecessors of the Northern Central; the corridor north is now the [[Torrey C. Brown Rail Trail]].

==Demographics==
{{US Census population
|1980= 17013
|1990= 18668
|2000= 19388
|2010= 20776
|2020= 24184
|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census<ref name="DecennialCensus">{{cite web|url=http://www.census.gov/prod/www/decennial.html|title=Census of Population and Housing|publisher=Census.gov|accessdate=June 4, 2016}}</ref>
}}

===2020 Census===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|+'''Cockeysville, Maryland – Racial and ethnic composition'''<br><small>{{nobold|''Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race.''}}</small>
!Race / Ethnicity <small>(''NH = Non-Hispanic'')</small>
!Pop 2000<ref name=2000CensusP004>{{Cite web|title=P004 Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – 2000: DEC Summary File 1 – Cockeysville CDP, Maryland|url=https://data.census.gov/table?q=p004&g=160XX00US2418250&tid=DECENNIALSF12000.P004|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref>
!Pop 2010<ref name=2010CensusP2>{{Cite web|title=P2 Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – 2010: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) – Cockeysville CDP, Maryland|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=p2&g=160XX00US2418250&tid=DECENNIALPL2010.P2|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref>
!{{partial|Pop 2020}}<ref name=2020CensusP2>{{Cite web|title=P2 Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – 2020: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) – Cockeysville CDP, Maryland|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=p2&g=160XX00US2418250&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P2|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref>
!% 2000
!% 2010
!{{partial|% 2020}}
|-
|[[Non-Hispanic or Latino whites|White]] alone (NH)
|14,730
|12,182
|style='background: #ffffe6; |12,167
|75.97%
|58.63%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |50.31%
|-
|[[Non-Hispanic or Latino African Americans|Black or African American]] alone (NH)
|1,682
|3,708
|style='background: #ffffe6; |4,812
|8.68%
|17.85%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |19.90%
|-
|[[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] or [[Alaska Native]] alone (NH)
|38
|50
|style='background: #ffffe6; |49
|0.20%
|0.24%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.20%
|-
|[[Asian Americans|Asian]] alone (NH)
|1,914
|2,604
|style='background: #ffffe6; |2,828
|9.87%
|12.53%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |11.69%
|-
|[[Native Hawaiian]] or [[Pacific Islander Americans|Pacific Islander]] alone (NH)
|4
|2
|style='background: #ffffe6; |17
|0.02%
|0.01%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.07%
|-
|[[Race and ethnicity in the United States census|Other race]] alone (NH)
|20
|56
|style='background: #ffffe6; |129
|0.10%
|0.27%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.53%
|-
|[[Multiracial Americans|Mixed race or Multiracial]] (NH)
|343
|523
|style='background: #ffffe6; |892
|1.77%
|2.52%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |3.69%
|-
|[[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic or Latino]] (any race)
|657
|1,651
|style='background: #ffffe6; |3,290
|3.39%
|7.95%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |13.60%
|-
|'''Total'''
|'''19,388'''
|'''20,776'''
|style='background: #ffffe6; |'''24,184'''
|'''100.00%'''
|'''100.00%'''
|style='background: #ffffe6; |'''100.00%'''
|}

===2000===
As of the [[census]]<ref name="GR2">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov |publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]] |access-date=2008-01-31 |title=U.S. Census website }}</ref> of 2000, there were 19,388 people, 9,176 households, and 4,450 families residing in the CDP. The population density was {{convert|1,718.4|PD/sqmi|PD/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}. There were 9,606 housing units at an average density of {{convert|851.4|/sqmi|/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}. The racial makeup of the CDP was 77.97% [[White (U.S. Census)|White]], 9.89% [[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]], 8.87% [[African American (U.S. Census)|African American]], 0.29% [[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]], 0.02% [[Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)|Pacific Islander]], 1.02% from [[Race (United States Census)|other races]], and 1.94% from two or more races. [[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]] of any race were 3.39% of the population.

There were 9,176 households, out of which 22.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 35.9% were [[Marriage|married couples]] living together, 9.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 51.5% were non-families. 38.9% of all households were made up of individuals, and 7.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.10 and the average family size was 2.87.

In the CDP, the population was spread out, with 18.9% under the age of 18, 13.3% from 18 to 24, 36.5% from 25 to 44, 21.2% from 45 to 64, and 10.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 33 years. For every 100 females, there were 93.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 93.8 males.

The median income for a household in the CDP was $43,681, and the median income for a family was $62,266 (these figures had risen to $60,088 and $92,392 respectively as of a 2007 estimate<ref>{{cite web |author=American FactFinder, United States Census Bureau |url=http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/ADPTable?_bm=y&-context=adp&-qr_name=ACS_2007_3YR_G00_DP3YR3&-ds_name=ACS_2007_3YR_G00_&-tree_id=3307&-redoLog=false&-_caller=geoselect&-geo_id=16000US2418250&-format=&-_lang=en |title=Cockeysville CDP, Maryland - Selected Economic Characteristics: 2005-2007 |publisher=Factfinder.census.gov |access-date=2010-03-28 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200211181917/http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/ADPTable?_bm=y&-context=adp&-qr_name=ACS_2007_3YR_G00_DP3YR3&-ds_name=ACS_2007_3YR_G00_&-tree_id=3307&-redoLog=false&-_caller=geoselect&-geo_id=16000US2418250&-format=&-_lang=en |archive-date=2020-02-11 |url-status=dead }}</ref>). Males had a median income of $40,732 versus $32,177 for females. The [[per capita income]] for the CDP was $29,080. About 4.7% of families and 8.2% of the population were below the [[poverty line]], including 7.1% of those under age 18 and 5.5% of those age 65 or over.

==See also==
[[Hunt Valley, Maryland]], adjoining Cockeysville

==References==
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==External links==
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* [http://www.hsobc.org/ Historical Society of Baltimore County]
* [http://www.huntvalley.com/ Hunt Valley community page]

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