Hoes Heights, Baltimore

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Hoes Heights
Coordinates: 39°20′24″N76°38′12″W / 39.339965°N 76.636754°W / 39.339965; -76.636754
Country United States
State Maryland
City Baltimore
Named for Grandison Hoe
Area
[1]
  Land.079 sq mi (0.20 km2)
Population
 (2010) [1]
  Total790
ZIP code
21211

Hoes Heights is an area of North Baltimore, Maryland in zip code 21211, [2] between West Cold Spring Lane and West 41st Street (north-south) and Evans Chapel Road and Falls Road (east-west). [1]

The neighborhood bears the name of Grandison Hoe, a freed slave in Antebellum Baltimore who once owned and operated a farm there. [3]

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