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Hagerstown

American  
[hey-gerz-toun] / ˈheɪ gərzˌtaʊn /

noun

  1. a city in NW Maryland.


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Bauer is expected to start when the team opens the season at home April 21 against the Hagerstown Flying Boxcars.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2026

He flies nonstop out of Orlando Sanford International Airport to Hagerstown, Md., when he needs to get to northern West Virginia and North Central West Virginia Airport when he visits Clarksburg, W.Va.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025

Born around 1820, Summers was enslaved by the owners of the iron works and later sold to another furnace near Hagerstown, Maryland, where Jackson and her daughters live today.

From Science Magazine • Feb. 17, 2024

A Maryland State Police corporal told The Herald-Mail that state police were assisting the sheriff’s office in the area of Olde Waterford Road north of Hagerstown.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 19, 2023

The state sent Joe to the Maryland Correctional Institution in Hagerstown, a medium-security prison about seventy-five miles west of Baltimore.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

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