Sleepy Creek is an unincorporated community in Morgan County, West Virginia on the Potomac River at the mouth of Sleepy Creek. By 1860, Sleepy Creek had a post office and functioned as an important station on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Sleepy Creek is located along River Road (Morgan County Route 1) east of Hancock and is accessible from Cherry Run to its east by way of Householder Road (County Route 10).
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Sleepy Creek is a 44.0-mile-long tributary of the Potomac River in the United States, belonging to the Chesapeake Bay's watershed. The stream rises in Frederick County, Virginia, and flows through Morgan County, West Virginia before joining the Potomac near the community of Sleepy Creek.
While Sleepy Creek Lake is a part of the Sleepy Creek watershed, it is an impoundment of its tributary, Meadow Branch, in Berkeley County, West Virginia and not of Sleepy Creek itself.
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Pecktonville is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Washington County, Maryland, United States. Its population was 167 as of the 2010 census.
In 1921 Pecktonville was the destination of the Vagabonds, a group of men which took camping trips over ten years and which at the time consisted of inventor Thomas Edison and industrialists Henry Ford and Harvey S. Firestone along with their guest the sitting US president Warren G. Harding.
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Mount Trimble is an unincorporated community in Morgan County in the U.S. state of West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle. Mount Trimble is situated around the crossroads at Michael's Chapel near the confluence of Sleepy Creek and Meadow Branch.
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Maryland's 6th congressional district elects a representative to the United States House of Representatives from the northwest part of the state. The district comprises all of Garrett, Allegany, Frederick, and Washington counties as well as a portion of Montgomery County. April McClain Delaney is its current representative.
The previous boundaries of the district were the subject of a Supreme Court lawsuit over partisan gerrymandering. The court ruled that taking into account partisan advantage when redistributing is "not judiciable" in federal courts, leaving it to the states. In 2012, the district was found to be the ninth least compact congressional district in the United States.
John Delaney, who represented the district after unseating 11-term incumbent republican Roscoe Bartlett, gave up the seat in 2018 to focus on his bid for president and was succeeded by fellow Democrat David Trone, who won re-election in 2020 as well. However, after redistricting in 2022, the district became much more competitive, giving up a portion of heavily Democratic Montgomery County in exchange for a more Republican-leaning portion of Frederick County. The district leans just slightly Democratic, with the heavily conservative, white, and rural regions of Western Maryland being balanced out by politically competitive Frederick County and heavily Democratic and culturally diverse suburbs in Montgomery County such as Gaithersburg and Germantown. Trone was re-elected by nearly 10 points over Maryland House of Delegates member Neil Parrott, mainly by swamping Parrott in Montgomery County. Trone gave up the seat in the 2024 election cycle in order to run for U.S. Senate. April McClain Delaney, wife of former 6th district congressman John Delaney, succeeded Trone in the district, defeating Neil Parrott with 53.0% of the vote.
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Meadow Branch is a 16.7-mile-long tributary stream of Sleepy Creek in West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle region. It passes through the Sleepy Creek Wildlife Management Area, where it is dammed to form the 205-acre Sleepy Creek Lake.
The community was named after nearby Sleepy Creek.
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