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Originally called "Laurel Factory" by its eighteenth and early nineteenth century settlers ,due to the presence of an iron works along the local Patuxent River, the town's name was not shortened to "Laurel" until eighteen seventy-five. Laurel was incorporated as a town in eighteen seventy, and reincorporated in eighteen ninety to coincide with a new electric power plant and paved streets. In eighteen ninety-nine, Laurel's seven-time mayor Edward Phelps succeeded in constructing the first high school in Prince George's County, despite several financial obstacles. The school building still stands on the corner of Montgomery and Eighth Streets. There are eight thousand, nine hundred thirty-one households out of which twenty-seven percent have children under the age of eighteen living with them, thirty-four percent are married couples living together, thirteen percent have a female householder with no husband present, and forty-eight percent are non-families. Thirty-seven percent of all households are made up of individuals and five percent have someone living alone who is sixty-five years of age or older. The average household size is two and the average family size is three. Laurel is a city about fourteen miles northeast of Washington, D.C., that is located in Prince George's County, Maryland. Parts of three other counties Anne Arundel County, Maryland, Howard County, Maryland, and Montgomery County, Maryland, are adjacent to the city limits and are commonly called "Laurel" but are not in the city limits. As of the two thousand census, the city had a total population of nineteen thousand, nine hundred sixty. Laurel is home to a modest horse racetrack, Laurel Racecourse, which is actually located in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Laurel was also formerly the home on an automobile racetrack, decades ago. The city is nearby to Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory. The postal code of nearby Montpelier, Maryland, is also referred to as "Laurel", though it is not part of the city. The ZIP codes for the City of Laurel is two zero seven zero seven.
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