Hunt Valley MD Hotels
Hotels in Hunt Valley are often required by people who need accommodation in the valley. Some want to go to the valley so they can see the area with scenic views, the culture and environment of the area. Some tourists may want to see the architecture, or the entertainment or sports of the area. Some may need to work or study in the area. Some tourists may need to have a accommodation in the area as they want to to see the whole region. Some tourists prefer luxury hotels, some tourists want a cheaper hotel. Some tourists want good parking and good views.
Cockeysville is an unincorporated community and a census designated place in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. A part of this area is known as Hunt Valley. Hunt Valley is served by the Cockeysville, Maryland post office, and also is home to a satellite campus of the Community College of Baltimore County.
The town lies north of the Baltimore beltway (I-695) along I-83 and York Road. It is bordered on the north by Hunt Valley, Maryland, on the east by the Loch Raven Reservoir, on the south by Lutherville-Timonium, Maryland, and on the west by Mays Chapel, Maryland. Most commercial activity is concentrated along York Road.
Cockeysville was named after the Cockey family which 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 I-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) lived lifelong in the village and built the train station (what would be part of the Pennsylvania Railroad) and accompanying commercial buildings in the 1830s.
Cockeysville was the scene of some Civil War activity. Confederate soldiers pushed into the Baltimore area intending to cut off the city and Washington from the north. On July 10, 1864 Cavalry General Bradley T. Johnson led troops into Cockeysville, destroying telegraph lines and tearing up track along the Northern Central Railway. They also burned the first bridge over the Gunpowder Falls, just beyond nearby Ashland, Maryland.
President Abraham Lincoln travelled through Cockeysville on the Northern Central Railway en route to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania to deliver the Gettysburg Address on November 19, 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.
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 developed dwellings along the York Turnpike (now York Road) that made up the village of Cockeysville.
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