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Tow⋅son

  [tou-suhn]
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a town in central Maryland, near Baltimore. 51,083.
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Tow·son   (tou'sən)   
A city of northern Maryland, a residential and industrial suburb of Baltimore. Population: 51,700.
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Towson

unincorporated community, Baltimore county, northern Maryland, U.S. It was named for Ezekiel Towson, who settled the area about 1750, and was made county seat in 1854. It evolved into a northern residential-industrial suburb of Baltimore. It is the seat of Goucher College (1885) and Towson University (1866; originally Maryland State Normal School), which moved from Baltimore in 1915 and is now part of the University of Maryland system. The Hampton National Historic Site, which preserves a Georgian mansion (1783-90), is just to the north. Pop. (1990) 49,445; (2000) 51,793.

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