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Rising Sun is an incorporated town in Cecil County, Maryland, near the Pennsylvania state line.

The town grew up in the 'Nottingham Lots,' land claimed by William Penn and settled by Quakers in 1702 over Maryland's objections; the Mason-Dixon survey of the 1760s placed Rising Sun in Maryland.

Around 1720, Henry Reynolds built a stone tavern on Nottingham Lot No. 17 as a stagecoach stop on the route between Baltimore and Philadelphia, hanging a sign painted with the rays of the rising sun and the words 'The Rising Sun.'

The tavern became better known than the surrounding village of Summer Hill, so when the area's first post office was established around 1815, Rising Sun was chosen as the official name.

Rising Sun was incorporated in 1860, and its first commissioners had slate sidewalks installed, street lamps erected, and a lamplighter hired who doubled as bailiff and street maintenance man.

The Philadelphia and Baltimore Central Railroad began serving Rising Sun in 1866, and most of the town's present buildings date from after the railroad's arrival.

Women voted in a Rising Sun municipal election for the first time in 1916, four years before the Nineteenth Amendment extended voting rights to women across the nation.

The 2020 census counted 2,740 residents in Rising Sun, a slight decline from 2,781 in the 2010 census.

Rising Sun had 1,072 households and 1,120 housing units in the 2020 census, and its median age was 36.9 years.

U.S. Route 1 skirts the northwest edge of Rising Sun, crossing the Conowingo Dam toward Baltimore to the south and entering Pennsylvania to the north.