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United States Maryland Washington County Hagerstown

City Hall

1 East Franklin St.
Hagerstown, MD 21740
301-739-8577

History

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Hagerstown is a city in Washington County and is the County Seat. It is also the largest city in a region known as Western Maryland and has also been recognized as Cumberland Valley. Johanthan Hager founded this community in 1762.

Neighboring Communities

Resources

Bible Records

Family Bible records in the Washington County Free Library, Hagerstown, Maryland; Fuller, Marsha Lynne; Washington County Free Library. Indexed "These records, covering the years 1738 to 1999, include first and last name, event (birth, christening, confirmation, marriage, death, obituary), date, event location, age, ...name of spouse, residence of bride and groom, minister and location of ceremony, names of parents, and name of family bible. This volume provides over 8,000 entries...." -- Back cover.^[1]

Cemeteries

Church History and Records

Baptist

• Emmanuel Baptist Temple
  16221 National Pike
  Hagerstown, MD 21740
  301-582-0378
  

• Harvest Baptist Church
  951 Woodland Way
  Hagerstown, MD 21742
  301-797-4630
  

• Mountain View Baptist Church
  12107 Walnut Point Rd
  Hagerstown, MD 21740
  301-582-1468
  

Catholic - Roman Catholic

• St. Ann
  1525 Oak Hill Avenue
  Hagerstown, MD 21742
  (301) 733-0410
  

• St. Joseph
  17630 Virginia Ave.
  Hagerstown, MD 21740
  (301) 797-9445

• St. Mary
  224 West Washington St.
  Hagerstown, MD 21740
  (301) 739-0390

Church of the Nazarene

• Hope Bridge Church
  920 W. Washington Street, Suite #106
  Hagerstown, MD 21740
  (301) 791-9003
  

Episcopal

• St Johns Episcopal Church
  101 South Prospect St
  Hagerstown, MD 21740
  (301) 733-2560

Lutheran

• St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church
  

Lutheran - Evangelical Lutheran Church of America

• Trinity Lutheran Church
  15 Randolph Ave.
  Hagerstown, MD 21740
  301-733-2878
  

African Methodist Episcopal (AME)

• Ebenezer
  26 West Bethel Street
  Hagerstown, MD 21740
  

Methodist

• Asbury United Methodist Church
  155 N Jonathan St
  Hagerstown, MD 21740-4811
  (301) 791-049
  

• John Wesley United Methodist Church
  
• St. Matthew's United Methodist Church
  
• St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church
  
• Washington Square United Methodist Church
  

Pentecostal

• Bridge Of Life Church
  14 S. Potomac St.
  Hagerstown, MD 21740
  301-791-1674
  

• Iglesia De Restauracion Adonai
  1826 B. Dual Highway
  Hagerstown, Maryland 21740
  240-315-2330
  

Reformed Church

• Reformed Congregation
  
• Zion Evangelical and Reformed Church
  
• Zion Reformed Church
  

Seventh-Day Adventist

• Hagerstown Highland View Seventh-day Adventist Church
  21600 Academy Terrace
  Hagerstown, MD 21740
  (301) 739-3144
  

• Hagerstown Seventh-day Adventist Church
  11507 Robinwood Drive
  Hagerstown, MD 21742
  (301) 733-4411
  

United Church of Christ

• Zion United Church of Christ
  201 N. Potomac Street
  Hagerstown, MD 21740
  301-739-7244
  

Directories

Genealogy

Immigration and Emigration

Ellis Island Passenger Arrival Records (1892-1924), the passengers who are from Hagerstown or heading to Hagerstown.

Maps

Newspapers

• Hagerstown Mail
  
• Herald of Freedom and Torch Light (later called Herald and Torch Light)
  
• Maryland Free Press
  
• The Herald-Mail, Online newspaper
  
• Washington County Free Library, newspaper indexing
  

Libraries and Museums

• Samuel B. Jamieson Genealogical Library, located in basement of the Miller Museum
• Miller Museum

Local Histories

• A History of Washington County, Maryland, by Thomas John Chew Williams ^{[3] [4]} from the earliest settlements to the present time, including a history of Hagerstown, to this is added a biographical record of representative families prepared from data obtained from original sources of information. A snippet view can be seen at Google Books.

• History of western Maryland : being a history of Frederick, Montgomery, Carroll, Washington, Allegany, and Garrett counties..., by J. Thomas Scharf  ^{[5] [6]} from the earliest period to the present day; including biographical sketches of their representative men.

Societies

• Hagerstown & Frederick Railway Historical Society
  
• Washington County Historical Society
• Washington County Historical Society is the website to The Miller House which is the headquarters of the Washington County Historical Society office and the Simms B. Jamieson Genealogical Library.

Vital Records

• Social Security Death Index, (F) begins about 1962 to 2 calendar months before the current month. It is updated on monthly basis.
  
• State of Maine Marriage (F) (1892-1966), marriage records of one or both spouses whose residence was in Hagerstown.

Websites

• Webtree.com, (F) listing individuals who born or died in Hagerstown, Maryland. Submitters of gedcoms may add, update or remove contents.

References

1. ↑ Family Bible records in the Washington County Free Library, Hagerstown, Maryland (Westminster, Md. : Willow Bend Books, 2003), FHLC 975.291/H1 D2f.
2. ↑ "FHLC Fiche 6125361" (Filmed by the GSU, 1996).
3. ↑ WorldCat
4. ↑ Thomas John Chew Williams, A History of Washington County, Maryland - Washington Co., Md - 1968 - 1347 pages Reprint of the ed published in 1906 by J. M. Runk & L. R. Titsworth, Hagerstown, Md. Worldcat
5. ↑ WorldCat
6. ↑ History of western Maryland : being a history of Frederick, Montgomery, Carroll, Washington, Allegany, and Garrett counties from the earliest period to the present day; including biographical sketches of their representative men (Philadelphia : L.H. Everts 1882, reprint 1906, 1968, 1992), FHL book 975.2 H2s 1968 v. 1-2, reprint 1968.