Rising Sun is a town in Cecil County, Maryland, United States.

The town which became known as Rising Sun was located in the disputed “Nottingham Lots” along the border between colonial Pennsylvania and Maryland.

[citation needed] When Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon conducted a survey of the order in the 1760s, Rising Sun was found to be located in Maryland.

As the tavern was located along the route between Baltimore and Philadelphia, it became known as a meeting place for business, politics, elections, and other public activities.

Local legend states that the tavern was more well known than the surrounding village (Summer Hill) so that by the time the town's first post office was established around 1815, Rising Sun was chosen as the official name.

[3] Six years later the Philadelphia and Baltimore Central Railroad began to serve Rising Sun.

When the Battleship Maine sailed for Havana Harbor in January 1898, Kay was an assistant machinist on this voyage.

On Independence Day 1900, a tall, handsome monument was dedicated at the Brookview Cemetery, which sits on a hilltop at the edge of town.

This was four years before the 19th Amendment to the Constitution passed, which provided voting privileges to women across the nation.

The state senator for this area is Jason Gallion and the local delegates are Mike Griffith and Teresa Reilly.

The most prominent highway serving Rising Sun directly is U.S. Route 1, which skims the northwest edge of town.