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Country
  
United States

County
  
Washington County

Time zone
  
Eastern (EST) (UTC-5)

Area
  
7.8 km²

Metro population
  
257,619

State
  
Maryland

Founded
  
1962

Elevation
  
164 m

Local time
  
Friday 11:39 PM

Van Lear, Maryland

Weather
  
6°C, Wind NW at 5 km/h, 95% Humidity

Van Lear is an unincorporated community in Washington County, Maryland. The community is part of the Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV MSA (Metropolitan Statistical Area). Van Lear is located between Halfway, Maryland and Williamsport, Maryland.

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History

The Community of Van Lear was started in the late 1960s when a Hagerstown real estate agent, Lee Downey, started to sell tracts of his then rural land to developers. By the 1980s the Hagerstown area started to boom, so Downey made Van Lear Manor and Tammany Manor, the first two suburban neighborhoods in Van Lear.

Today

Today, Van Lear is a diverse residential mix of new and old, modern and historic, all side-by-side. In Van Lear's newer neighborhoods, larger modern homes are common.

Neighborhoods

  • Van Lear Manor, the largest and first neighborhood.
  • Tammany, another older neighborhood.
  • Homewood, a housing complex for senior citizens.
  • New Van Lear, a newer, somewhat large neighborhood filled with newer homes.
  • Sterling Oaks, a new subdivision with middle to lower income housing.
  • Bratton Hill, a small, new neighborhood with newer homes.
  • New Tammany, a new middle-class neighborhood.

    • References

    Van Lear, Maryland Wikipedia
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