Place:Rawlings, Allegany, Maryland, United States

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NameRawlings
TypeInhabited place
Coordinates39.533°N 78.883°W
Located inAllegany, Maryland, United States
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Rawlings is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Allegany County, Maryland, United States, on the McMullen Highway (U.S. Route 220). As of the 2010 census, the Rawlings CDP had a population of 693.

The community was named after Moses Rawlings, an officer in the Revolutionary War. It was originally known as "Rawlings Station" after a post office was established on the railroad there on March 7, 1856.

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