Hagerstown, capital of Washington county, Maryland, on Antietam Creek, 85 miles WNW. of Baltimore by rail. It has machine-shops, flour-mills, and manufactories of furniture and other wooden wares, fertilisers, farming implements, and cigars. Pop. (1890) 10,118.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 501
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