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Published: October 20th 2007
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Hagerstown
Hagerstown, Maryland - United States of America Sep 13, 2007
City official name :Hagerstown
Founded date : Location :Maryland State
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Facts :Hagerstown is the county seat of Washington CountyGR6, Maryland, United States. The population of the city proper as of a 2006 U.S. Census Bureau estimate is 39,008, and the total 2000 urban population is 120,326 (~75,000 in MD). It is Western Maryland's largest city. Hagerstown is also Maryland's sixth largest city, but if the urban area is included, it would be Maryland's second-most populous city.
Hagerstown is on the edge of the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area. The city also has its own metropolitan area: Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV, MSA. The population of the Metropolitan Statistical Area in 2000 was 222,771 and the 2006 estimate is 257,619 (U.S. Rank 169). Hagerstown is the fastest growing metropolitan area in the State of Maryland and among the fastest growing in the United States.
Hagerstown, due to the large number of roads and other transit that cross in the city, is known as "The Hub City."
Hagerstown was founded in 1762 by Jonathan Hager, a volunteer Captain of Scouts during the French
Hagerstown
Hagerstown, Maryland - United States of America and Indian War. Hager has been called the "Father of Washington County" due to his having laid the groundwork for its separation from Frederick County in 1776 and the subsequent creation of Hagerstown as the county seat.
Hagerstown's strategic location at the border between the North and the South made the city a primary staging area and supply center for four major campaigns in the East during the Civil War.
In 1861, General Robert Patterson’s troops used Hagerstown as a base to attack Virginia Rebels in the Shenandoah Valley Campaign.
In the Maryland Campaign of 1862, General Longstreet’s command occupied the town while en route to the Battle of South Mountain and Antietam.
In 1863, the city was the site of several military incursions and engagements as General Lee’s army invaded and retreated at the Gettysburg Campaign.
In 1864, Hagerstown was invaded by the Confederate Army under General Jubal Early. On Wednesday, July 6, Early sent 1,500 cavalry, commanded by Brigadier-General John McCausland, into Hagerstown to levy a ransom for $200,000 and a large amount of clothing, in retribution for Federal destruction of farms, feed and cattle in the Shenandoah Valley. McCausland misread the amount,
Hagerstown
Hagerstown, Maryland - United States of America and instead only collected $20,000. This is in contrast to Chambersburg, which McCausland razed on July 30 when the borough failed to supply the requested ransom of $500,000 in US currency, or $100,000 in gold.
Throughout the Civil War, private physicians and citizens of Hagerstown took care of men from both the North and South in a number of locations including the Franklin Hotel, Washington House, Lyceum, Hagerstown Male Academy, Key-Mar College, and a number of private residences.
The spread of smallpox from returning soldiers to their families and friends was a substantial problem during the war. The Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church volunteered the use of its church as a smallpox hospital when an epidemic spread throughout the town.
Following the war in 1872, Maryland and Virginia cooperated to re-enter Southern Confederate dead from their impromptu graves to cemeteries in Hagerstown, Frederick and Shepherdstown, West Virginia. Roughly 60% however, remained unidentified. In 1877, 15 years after the Battle of Antietam, also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, approximately 2,800 Confederate dead from that battle were re-entered in Washington Confederate Cemetery and in Rosehill Cemetery in Hagerstown
Little Heiskell
One of the most recognizeable symbols of the
Hagerstown
Hagerstown, Maryland - United States of America city of Hagerstown is the weathervane known as "Little Heiskell." Named after the German tinsmith who crafted it in 1796, it stood atop the Market House and City Hall for a combined 166 years. It was moved from the Market House to City Hall in 1824.
During the American Civil War era, the weathervane gained its characteristic bullet hole from a Confederate sharpshooter.
Finally in 1935, the original was retired to the Museum of the Washington County Historical Society, later to be moved to its present display in the Jonathan Hager House. An exact replica has replaced it atop City Hall.
The weathervane has also been depicted in the city's annual Mummers Day Parade by Mr. Charles Harry Rittenhouse Sr. sporting all of the necessary acoutrements of a German Mercenary Soldier.
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