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fertilizer, coal, and corrugated metal roofs. In August 1900, Harry P. Owings requested the position of station manager in a letter sent from Owings
Station and now in the archives of the Chesapeake Bay Railway Museum archives and was granted the position.
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64:Location of Owings, Maryland
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294:Geography
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