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Encyclopedia Britannica



HAGERSTOWN

This article appears in Volume V12, Page 814 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GUI-HAN
HAGERSTOWN , a city and the county-seat of Washington county,
Maryland
 , U.S.A., near Antietam Creek, about 86 m. by rail W.N.W. from
Baltimore
 . Pop. (189o), ro,118; (1900), 13,591, of whom 1277 were negroes; (1910, census), 16,507. Hagerstown is served by the
Baltimore
  &
Ohio
 , the Western
Maryland
 , the Norfolk & Western, and the Cumberland Valley railways, and by an interurban electric line. It lies in a fertile valley overlooked by
South
  Mountain to the E. and North Mountain, more distant, to the W. The city is the seat of Kee Mar College (1852; non-sectarian) for women. Hagerstown is a business centre for the surrounding agricultural
district
 , has good water power, and as a manufacturing centre ranked third in the state in 1905, its factory products being valued in that year at $3,026,901, an increase of 66.3% over their value in 'goo. Among the manufactures are flour, shirts, hosiery, gloves, bicycles, automobiles, agricultural implements,
print
 
paper
 , fertilizers, sash, doors and blinds, furniture, carriages, spokes and wheels. The municipality owns and operates its electric lighting plant. Hagerstown was laid out as a town in 1762 by Captain Jonathan Hager (who had received a patent to 200 acres here from Lord Baltimore in 1739), and was incorporated in 1791. It was an important station on the old National (or Cumberland) Road. General R. E. Lee concentrated his forces at Hagerstown before the battle of Gettysburg.
HAG-FISH, GLUTINOUS HAG, or BORER (Myxine), a marine fish which forms with the lampreys one of the lowest orders of vertebrates (Cyclostomata). Similar in form to a lamprey, it is usually found within the
body
  of dead cod or haddock, on the flesh of which it feeds after having buried itself in the abdomen. When caught, it secretes a thick glutinous slime in such quantity that it is commonly believed to have the power of converting water into glue. It is found in the North Atlantic and other temperate seas of the globe, being taken in some localities in large numbers, e.g. off the
east
  coast of
Scotland
  and the west coast of California (see CYCLosTOMATA).


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