HAGERSTOWN, a city of Maryland, U.S.A., 72m. W.N.W. of Baltimore, near Antietam creek; the county seat of Washington county. It is on Federal highways 11 and 4o, and is served by the Baltimore and Ohio, the Norfolk and Western, the Pennsylvania, and the Western Maryland railways, and by inter-urban trolleys and motor-coach lines. The population was 28,064 in 1920 (93% native white) and was, 3o,861 in 193o by the Federal census. It is an active business centre for the rich agricultural environs, and has substantial manufacturing industries, with an output in 1925 valued at $17,542,327. Among the leading manufactures are pipe organs, paper, flour, sash, doors, spokes, furniture, silk and knitted goods, shoes, chemicals and automobiles. Hagerstown was laid out in 1761 by Capt. Jonathan Hager who had received a patent to 2ooac. from Lord Baltimore in 1739; it was incorpo rated in 1791. It was an important station on the old National (or Cumberland) road.