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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. HAGER_220220_006.JPG: A Green Solution Helping to Reduce the Impact of Stormwater Pollution on the Environment How Does this Bioretention Structure Work?
2. HAGER_220220_026.JPG: West Baltimore Street The development and use of this area was heavily influenced by the presence of two rail yard areas owned by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and the Western Maryland Railroad. Hood Street was named after John Mifflin Hood, a former Confederate army engineer and President of the Western Maryland Railroad. Since the closing of rail service in this area in the later half of the 20th Century, the West Baltimore Street area, which always had an industrial character, began to see a revitalization with the construction of residential developments by the Hagerstown Housing Authority. In the 1960s, this site was occupied by the H.L. Mills filling station. The control building featured a cupola on the roof. "Potomac Towers" was completed by the Housing Authority Board in 1972. The C. Williams Brooks mid-rise development was dedicated in 2011. It was named in honor of T. Andrew Williams and his granddaughter, Carolyn Williams Brooks. Mr. Williams served on the Board of Commissioners of the Housing Authority Board from 1975 until his death in 1989. Ms. Brooks was appointed to the Housing Authority Board in 1990 and began serving as chairperson in 1992. The cupola you see before you, now used as a centerpiece of this open space area, is the same cupola that stood for many years on the roof of the Mills building. This building was demolished in 2010.
3. HAGER_220220_029.JPG: The J. Louis Boublitz District Court Building
4. HAGER_220220_070.JPG: Ransom of Hagerstown This courthouse was built in 1873, replacing the courthouse that stood at this site during the Civil War. In 1864, Confederate General John McCausland met with town officials and the directors of the Hagerstown Bank in the court clerk's office to finalize payment of a $20,000 ransom levied in retaliation for Union destruction in the Shenandoah Valley. The former courthouse, constructed in 1785, was used as a hospital in the weeks after the Battle of Antietam in 1862. Colonel Henry Kyd Douglas, youngest officer on the staff of Confederate General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, practiced law from his office on West Washington Street following the Civil War and later served as a judge of the Circuit Court.
5. HAGER_220220_074.JPG: Crossroads of History Route 40 & 11 Cross At This Point In the court house that stood on this site Confederate Gen. John McCausland was given $20,000 in cash and all of the suits, hats, shoes, boots, shirts and socks that could be found as ransom upon his threat to burn Hagerstown in July of 1864. Over the old National Trail in front of this court house passed thousands of settlers on the way west by wagon, horse and foot in the first half of the 19th century before the building of railroads across the mountains. The street to the west was once an Indian trail. The armies of the Union and Confederacy used it as the tide of the Civil War ebbed back and forth across the Potomac.
6. HAGER_220220_083.JPG: For God and Country In loving memory of those who gave their lives in the World Wars 1917-1918 [list of names] 1941-1945 [list of names] May They Rest in Peace Erected by Morris Frock Post No. 42 November 11, 1946
7. HAGER_220220_090.JPG: For God and Country In loving memory of those who gave their lives in the World Wars 1917-1918 [list of names] 1941-1945 [list of names] May They Rest In Peace Erected by Morris Frock Post No. 42 November 11, 1946 In loving memory of those who gave their lives in the Korean Conflict 1950-1953 [list of names] Rededicated by Morris Frock Post No. 42, November 11, 1959 In loving memory of those who gave their lives in the Vietnam Conflict [list of names] Dedicated May 30, 1974
8. HAGER_220220_092.JPG: Washington Court Building
9. HAGER_220220_096.JPG: Mount Hope Prison Ministry
10. HAGER_220220_104.JPG: Garland E. Groh Foundation, Inc. AD 1900
11. HAGER_220220_116.JPG: Time to Pray
12. HAGER_220220_121.JPG: Devote yourselves to prayer with an alert mind and a thankful heart. -- Colossians 4:2
13. HAGER_220220_141.JPG: Fire Company No. 2
14. HAGER_220220_145.JPG: Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Hagerstown was bypassed in the great race westward between the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. The City was left without a rail connection to the south or west. The “Washington County Railroad” was chartered in 1864 for the purpose of connecting Hagerstown by rail to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Weverton, near Harpers Ferry. The line was completed in late 1867 and was soon absorbed by the Baltimore and Ohio. A two-story brick structure, constructed at an angle to the streets, stood here from around 1870, until it was replaced by a stone passenger terminal around 1890. The stone building was torn down after World War II and the site was used for a gas station, and later became the home of the Herald-Mail newspaper.
15. HAGER_220220_151.JPG: Hagerstown residents seeing off the local company of the Maryland National Guard as they depart for service on the Mexican border in 1916. Antietam Fire Hall is in the background.
16. HAGER_220220_153.JPG: The railyard of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad extended from its station across from the Dagmar Hotel, to the south, across Hood Street and through the area where Potomac Towers is now located.
17. HAGER_220220_154.JPG: The Baltimore and Ohio Passenger Terminal was located on the south side of West Antietam Street, across from the Dagmar Hotel. Photo circa 1938.
18. HAGER_220220_167.JPG: Hagerstown Railway The only trolley system to operate in Washington County was started with the creation of the Hagerstown Railway in 1896. It consisted of a loop around the outer edges of town, and crossing lines that ran north-south on Potomac Street and east-west on Washington Street. A branch also extended service to Willliamsport and in 1897, service was extended to Funkstown. By 1902, an extension was completed to Boonsboro, and in 1904, the railway extended to Myersville where it connected with the trolley system that served Frederick. The Hagerstown and Frederick Railway was one of only a few inter-urban trolley systems in the nation. Demand for trolley service declined with the explosion of private automobile ownership, the establishment of US Route 40 and bus service. The last active trolley in Washington County was the line that ran between Hagerstown and Williamsport. Service ended on this line in 1947. This building served as the “trolley barn” for the Hagerstown Railway.
19. HAGER_220220_170.JPG: The Funkstown Car, circa 1940.
20. HAGER_220220_174.JPG: The last trolley run in 1947 was the subject of commemoration and fanfare, as shown by the wording painted across the front of the streetcar.
21. HAGER_220220_176.JPG: Inside a Hagerstown Streetcar 1935
Wikipedia Description: Hagerstown, Maryland
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Hagerstown is the county seat of Washington County, Maryland, United States. The population of the city proper as of a 2006 estimate by the United States Census Bureau is 39,008 , and the total 2000 urban population is 120,326 (~80,000 in MD). It is Western Maryland's largest city. Hagerstown is also Maryland's sixth largest city, but if the urban area was incorporated, it would be Maryland's second-most populous city.

Hagerstown is on the northwestern 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." The nickname may also be applied to Hagerstown's status as the commercial and industrial hub for the Tri-State Area which includes much of Western Maryland, South Central Pennsylvania, and the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia.

History:

Founding:

Hagerstown was founded in 1762 by Jonathan Hager, a volunteer Captain of Scouts during the French 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, Maryland in 1776 and the subsequent creation of Hagerstown as the county seat.

Civil War:

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 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 James 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, and instead only collected $20,000. This is in contrast to neighboring Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, which McCausland razed on July 30 when the borough failed to supply the requested ransom of $500,000 in U.S. 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.

Railroads:

Hagerstown's nickname of the "Hub City" came from the large number of railroads (and roads) that served the city. Hagerstown was the center of the Western Maryland Railway and an important city on the Pennsylvania, Norfolk and Western, Baltimore and Ohio, and Hagerstown and Frederick Railroads. Currently, the city is a vital location on CSX, Norfolk Southern, and the Winchester and Western Railroads.

Hagerstown was formerly served by the Hagerstown & Frederick Railway, an interurban trolley system, from 1896 to 1947.

Little Heiskell:

One of the most recognizable symbols of the 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 first and City Hall second 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 accoutrements of a German Mercenary Soldier.

Aviation heritage:

From 1931 to 1984, Fairchild Aircraft was based in Hagerstown, Maryland and was by far the area's most prominent employer. The importance of the company to the city and the country as a whole earned Hagerstown its former nickname "Home of the Flying Boxcar."

Fairchild moved to Hagerstown in 1931 after Sherman Fairchild purchased a majority stock interest in Kreider-Reisner Aircraft Company of Hagerstown in 1929. Among Fairchild's products during World War II were PT-19/PT-23/PT-26 (Cornell) and AT-21 trainers, C-82 "Packet" cargo planes and missiles. At its height in World War II, Fairchild employed directly and indirectly up to 80% of Hagerstown's workforce or roughly 10,000 people.

In the postwar era, Fairchild continued to produce aircraft in Hagerstown such as C-123 Provider, Fairchild F-27 and Fairchild Hiller FH-227, FH-1100, C-26 Metroliner, UC-26 Metroliner, Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II, and the T-46 jet trainer. However, all production ceased in Hagerstown in 1984 and the company moved elsewhere. Presently, the company is based in San Antonio, Texas and after a series of mergers and buyouts, is known as M7 Aerospace.

The Hagerstown Aviation Museum shows many of these original aircraft. Among the ones on display are: 1939 F24/UC-61C, 1945 C-82A, 1943 PT-19A, and the 1953 C-119. The museum is located near Hagerstown Regional Airport in the airport's former terminal.

Hagerstown is also the birthplace of Salisbury, Maryland-based Piedmont Airlines which started out as Henson Aviation. It was founded by Richard A. Henson in 1931. Today, Hagerstown Regional Airport-Richard A. Henson Field is named as such in honor of the airlines' founder.

Today, only small to mid-size aviation companies remain in the area. Two notable names include Northrop Grumman California Microwaves, which manufactures airline equipment in its Hagerstown facility, and Sierra Nevada Corporation, a defense electronics engineering and manufacturing contractor.
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