Waverly (Baltimore, Maryland)

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Waverly, when it came into being, was called "Huntingdon," from St. John's Episcopal Church, Huntingdon the community's oldest church, dating from the 1840s. In 1840 the town of Waverly included six buildings all clustered near the 3100 block of York Road: a shoemaker's shop, a corn husk depot, a blacksmith, and three small stone houses. The shoemaker, Jacob Aull, was an immigrant from Bavaria whose sons built the houses in Waverly's first housing boom and whose daughter Louisa became a neighborhood historian. Surrounding this little village, away from York Road, there were still the estates, summer houses, arboretums and horse farms of the affluent. With rural origins and a history as a suburban village, by 1974 Waverly was considered representative of an urban community