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McKenzie is a unincorporated community in Allegany County, Maryland, comprised only of a few houses, and mostly land. It's name is derived from a family name, which owned a large farm along the river bottom in the area. It is directly across from the Allegany Ballistics Laboratory in Rocket Center, West Virginia. The area used to be a railroad junction of the Patterson Creek Cutoff and the main B&O line. McKenzie is also the site of one of the first settlements in Allegany county, where many pieces of glass, metal, stone, and some coin have been found. In the fields of the river bottom, arrowheads and flint can be found, suggesting a possible native American community at one time, similar to the Barton, Maryland site.
