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Adamstown is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Frederick County, Maryland, United States. It is named for Adam Kohlenberg (March 11, 1819 – January 1, 1868), a station agent and first town merchant who owned much of present-day Adamstown. As of the 2010 census, the Adamstown CDP had a population of 2,372.

Adamstown lies in the fertile valley amongst Sugarloaf and Catoctin Mountain on the former Carrollton Manor, a 17,000-acre (69 km) estate originally owned by Charles Carroll of Carrollton. Until 2000, it was a little-altered representative of mid-19th century linear town planning. It is significant in architecture for its variety of structures, including residential, commercial, industrial, educational, agricultural, and religious buildings. The late 18th century road from Jefferson to Greenfield Mills on the Monocacy River, originally called the Bridal Road, followed the route of the present-day Mountville Road. The 1832 arrival of the railroad to the manor created the economic and transportation impetus for the fee of the community.

Adamstown was first known as “Davis’ Warehouse” because Dr. Meredith Davis, a leading Quaker county miller, built a warehouse nearly 1835 where Mountville Road, by after that called Jefferson Road, crossed the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (9 miles (14 km) southwest of Frederick) to collection flour from his Greenfield Mills. The first settler in Adamstown was Robert Palmer, an African American “post and railer” who as a consequence ran a general store something like 1835. In 1840 bearing in mind Adam Kohlenburg was appointed the first B&O railway agent, the community became known as “Adamstown”, after his fixed name. He was furthermore the first postmaster and ran a general stock located in the lot amongst his brick Italianate-style house and the railroad. Edward Hebb laid off lots upon the north side of the railroad in the 1840s. Daniel Rhodes of Pennsylvania, the first white settler, was as a result impressed in the appearance of the location, he bought a tract of land and laid it off into 12 building lots upon the south side of the railroad in 1856.