Hagerstown Historic District is a national historic district at Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland, United States. The district contains the downtown commercial and governmental center as well as several surrounding urban residential neighborhoods and industrial areas. It includes the original plat of Hagerstown, laid out in the 1760s, as well as areas of expansion that developed generally prior to or just after the turn of the 20th century. Some 2,500 Confederate dead lie in Rose Hill Cemetery on South Potomac Street, most of whom died at the Battle of Antietam.[2]
Hagerstown Historic District | |
 Former fire hall in the district in 2011 | |
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| Location | Roughly bounded by Prospect and Canon Aves., Memorial Blvd. and the CSX RR tracks., Hagerstown, Maryland |
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| Coordinates | 39°38′23″N 77°43′6″W / 39.63972°N 77.71833°W |
| Area | 425 acres (172 ha) |
| Built | 1770 |
| Architect | Sims and Sims |
| Architectural style | Italianate, Federal, Georgian Revival |
| NRHP reference No. | 93001551[1] |
| Added to NRHP | February 2, 1994 |
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Paula Stoner Reed (June 1991). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Hagerstown Historic District" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved January 1, 2016.
External links
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Media related to Hagerstown Historic District at Wikimedia Commons
- Hagerstown Historic District, Washington County, including photo from 1991, at Maryland Historical Trust
- Boundary Map of the Hagerstown Historic District, Washington County, at Maryland Historical Trust
