WAYNESBORO
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WAYNESBORO , a borough See Also: - BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
of Franklin county, Pennsylvania , U.S.A., near Antietam Creek, about 14 M. S.E. of Chambers-burg, and about 65 m. S.V. of Harrisburg. Pop. (1890) 3811; (1900) J396; (191o) 7199. Waynesboro is served by the Cumber-land Valley and the Western Maryland railways. It lies at the foot of the South Mountain , and under the borough See Also: - BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
are many caves and caverns. A settlement was made here about 1734; it was called Mount Vernon for twenty years, and then Wallace -town (in honour of an early settler) until the close of the War of Independence, when it was named Waynesborough in honour of General Anthony Wayne; a village was platted in 1797; its charter as a borough, granted in 1818, was repealed in 1824 but was revived in 183o, the spelling being changed to " Waynesboro." See Benjamin M. Nead, Waynesboro (Harrisburg, Pa., 1900).
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