Mercersville, MD

Mercersville, popularly known as Taylor's Landing, is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Washington County, Maryland, United States. The 2010 census counted 130 residents. Mercersville lies at an elevation of 341 feet. The community of Mercersville, more popularly known today as Taylor's Landing, is located on the third land patent surveyed in what would eventually become Washington County, Maryland. The short version is that Mercersville carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Mercersville: its past remains attached to the places people use now. The potomac River at Taylor's Landing has long been a favorite fishing spot, evidenced by the several ancient native stone structures known locally as "fish pots" still visible in the river. Mercersville includes the potomac River.