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	Slaves and Free Blacks in Western Maryland This collection covers newspaper advertisements of slave sales and runaways from Western Maryland, together with opinions about slavery and emancipation . Newspaper articles from Hagerstown and Cumberland 1790 to 1864 are included.

	World War II veterans, Washington County The scrapbook created by Veda Carbaugh contains cuttings from the Hagerstown papers about Washington County service personnel during World War II who were injured or killed.

	Confederate soldiers killed at Antietam This 1869 book, also known as the Bowie List, documents the names, regiments and location of those Confederates buried where they fell after the battles in the Maryland campaign of the Civil War.

	Military Lots, Garrett County, 1787 Soldiers who fought in the Revolutionary War were rewarded by the state of Maryland with land "west of Fort Cumberland". The map of "military lots" assigned in 1787 shows the land grants in Garrett County, Maryland.

	Chesapeake and Ohio Canal The C&O Canal, 78 miles of which are located in Washington County, provided a variety of employment opportunites and a transportation corridor for the county's produce and minerals from the 1830s to 1924.

	The First Bookmobile - Washington County Free Library In 1905, Mary Titcomb, the librarian of Washington County Free Library, Maryland, sent a wagon pulled by two horses, laden with 200 books, to travel the county. So began the system of rural free delivery of books.

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