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The Hager House and Museum in Hagerstown City Park was once home to the city's founder, Jonathan Hager.. In 1739, Jonathan Hager, a German immigrant from Pennsylvania and a volunteer Captain of Scouts, purchased 200 acres (81 ha) of land in the Great Appalachian Valley between the Blue Ridge and Allegheny Mountains in Maryland and called it Hager's Fancy.
Hagerstown station is a historic railway station in Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland. It was built in 1913 as a stop for the Western Maryland Railway . It is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 -story hip roof brick building, reflecting the influence of the Commercial Style of the early 20th century.
Jefferson Boulevard in Braddock Heights, Maryland with an H&F trolley. Like the H&F, the Hagerstown Railway was begun in 1896. The leading investors were Christian W. Lynch and William Jennings, who took a different approach to development by creating an urban loop within Hagerstown, with crossing lines on Washington Street and South Potomac Street, and a branch to nearby Williamsport.
The most populous community in Western Maryland is Hagerstown, located in Washington County, the most populous county in the region. Major highways in Western Maryland include Interstate Highways I-70, I-81 and I-68; U.S. Highways U.S. 11, U.S. 40, U.S. 40 ALT, U.S. 219 and U.S. 50; and several state highways.
George was 18 and in his first year at Hagerstown Junior College. By then he was an amateur speleologist — one who studies and explores caves — and was the Hagerstown Grotto’s president and ...
Shenandoah Valley Railroad was a line completed on June 19, 1882, extending up the Shenandoah Valley from Hagerstown, Maryland through the West Virginia panhandle into Virginia to reach Roanoke, Virginia and to connect with the Norfolk and Western Railway (N&W).
Location of Washington County in Maryland. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Washington County, Maryland. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington County, Maryland, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are ...
Two beltways, I-695 and I-495, were built around Baltimore and Washington, while I-70, I-270, and later I-68 linked central Maryland with western Maryland, and I-97 linked Baltimore with Annapolis. Passenger and freight steamboat transportation, previously very important throughout the Chesapeake Bay and its many tributaries, came to an end in ...