Hunt Valley, Maryland

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Hunt Valley is an unincorporated community located in Baltimore County, Maryland just north of the Baltimore, Maryland metro area, on Highway 145 off I-83, by Loch Raven Reservoir. Located at a latitude of 39.5° North and longitude 76.7° West.

Hunt Valley is the home of Firaxis Games, Sinclair Broadcast Group, McCormick & Company, AAI Corporation and KCI Technologies, Inc. It was the former home of Noxell Corporation, makers of Noxzema, before Noxell was acquired by Procter and Gamble in the early 1990's.

The Hunt Valley Inn is the most popular hotel in Maryland for Science fiction conventions and hosts Balticon, Shore Leave, Farpoint, Horrorfind and other theme related conventions.

Hunt Valley is served by the Cockeysville, Maryland post office, and also is home to a satellite campus of the Community College of Baltimore County.

Many Baltimore County residents declaim that Hunt Valley doesn't actually exist - it is often grumbled that "Hunt Valley" is a fanciful name cooked up by real estate developers during the development of the area in the '70s and '80s; that is, Hunt Valley is more of a name brand than an actual place.

Hunt Valley is the northern terminus of the Baltimore Light Rail.

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