90
66%
$39,028
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America/New_York
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Luke, MD - History
We would like to provide the residents of Luke a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Luke Home page. The Luke Home page provides as much information as possible on Luke. Knowing Luke’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Luke’s Home page, you will also find Luke’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Luke has a population of 90. 53.3% of Luke’s inhabitants are Male, and 46.7 are female. 25.8% of Luke is married and 65.7% own their own home. The Average Home price is $28,217, and the average rent is $592. Household median income in Luke is $39,028, and the individual median income is $19,375. Luke’s Ethnic is the following: White(98.9%), Black(1.1%).
The town of Luke was settled in the early 1770s after the organization of Hampshire County, West Virginia (at that time part of Virginia) in 1757. Among the first settlers to arrive were the Davis brothers (Henry and Thomas), who established a saw mill where the town of Luke now stands. The mill provided cross-ties to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad as it pushed its rails westward through the Piedmont area of what is now West Virginia.When the railroad suspended building in the 1880s, the Davis brothers disbanded and sold their property to William Luke, who founded the Piedmont Pulp and Paper Company there with his sons in 1888.
With this and other paper mills they had built in West Virginia and Maryland, they formed the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company in 1897. When the railroad needed a name for the stop it established near the site, it used the name "Luke".The land on which Luke was built was originally an island formed by a split in the Potomac River.
It was known as West Piedmont and claimed by Piedmont, West Virginia until the river's path changed and the land reverted to Maryland.Over the next several decades, Luke prospered with the operation of the paper mill, the influx of other "heavy" industrial concerns, and the establishment of the usual supporting mom-and-pop businesses.
Nearby, along the Savage River, there was a gun factory that provided muskets with bayonets for the United States Army at Harpers Ferry. Luke was also home of an automobile manufacturing plant where the Maryland Steamer was produced, as well as a post card factory.With Luke's growth came citizens' concerns about educational and social issues.
Schooling in private homes and business buildings was relocated to a two-room schoolhouse. Growing enrollment in the first through eighth grades brought about construction of a new school that opened in September 1913. It served the town for forty-six years, sending its students off to Bruce High School in Westernport.
When the school closed in 1959, the building was converted for use as the town's administrative offices.
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