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Hagerstown (/ ˈ h eɪ ɡ ər z t aʊ n /; HAY-gərz-town) is a city in and the county seat of Washington County, Maryland, United States. The population was 43,527 at the 2020 census . Hagerstown ranks as Maryland's sixth-most populous incorporated city and is the most populous city in the Maryland Panhandle .
The Maryland Theatre and Performing Arts Complex offers a year-round calendar of shows, concerts, and events, while the Maryland Symphony Orchestra takes center stage. Art lovers can wander the halls of the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, surrounded by an impressive permanent collection and a dynamic program of exhibitions, lectures, and more.
The Maryland Theatre. 68. Theaters. The Maryland Theatre is the anchor to the Arts & Entertainment district in Hagerstown, MD. The A&E District also offers convenient & inexpensive parking as well as over 12 restaurants. The Theatre…. See way to experience (1) 10. Berwick Offray Factory Ribbon Outlet.
- Washington County Museum of Fine Arts
- Hagerstown City Park
- Maryland Theatre
- Antietam National Battlefield
- Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Regional Park
- Discovery Station at Hagerstown
- Jonathan Hager House Museum
- Pennsylvania Dutch Market of Hagerstown
- Price-Miller House
- Hagerstown Roundhouse Museum
Fronting City Park’s Lower Lake is a national standard art museum, with a tremendous collection of 18th, 19th and early 20th-century American painting. The bulk of this inventory was donated to the city by William Henry Singer, Jr. (1868-1943) and his wife Anna Brugh Singer (1873-1962). A few of the many celebrated artists represented in the collec...
The park surrounding Washington County Museum of Fine Arts is on the National Register of Historic Places and touted as one of the country’s most beautiful urban parks. One key feature is Lower Lake, framed by the museum, and created by draining a swamp in the park in the early 1920s. The lake is flocked by ducks, geese and swans, and sets the scen...
One of the state’s top performing arts venues is the pillar of Hagerstown’s Arts and Entertainment District. The Maryland Theatre was built in 1915, and one of the architects was Thomas W. Lamb (1871-1942), who worked on the third Madison Square Garden. The building was badly damaged by fire in 1974, but the historic 1,293-seat auditorium, complete...
The bloodiest day in American history took place about ten miles south of Hagerstown at the Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862. The battle resulted in 22,717 dead, wounded or missing. Despite the extraordinary toll (12,410 Union casualties), this hard-fought victory helped turn the war in the Union Army’s favor, and gave Abraham Lincoln the b...
Downtown Hagerstown is little more than ten minutes from the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, which hugged the bank of the Potomac River for more than 180 miles. Replacing the earlier Potomac Canal, this waterway was built between 1828 and 1850 and was a mammoth project, involving no fewer than 74 locks, 11 aqueducts, 240 culverts and the Paw Paw Tunnel, m...
An historic bank building downtown has been transformed into a hands-on museum with exhibits founded in Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math (STEAM) principles. Across two floors, the Discovery Station is always adding new experiences, all designed to foster curiosity for exploration, discovery and ongoing investigation. A few of the exhi...
At the north end of City Park you can step back to Hagerstown’s mid-18th century origins at the preserved house built by the city’s founder. The German immigrant, Jonathan Hager (1714-1775), constructed this Colonial-style house around 1740 on the site of two springs. The two-story building, composed of flagstone, is open to the public, April throu...
Western Maryland is one of three areas in the state with significant Amish and Mennonite populations. These communities are renowned for their prowess in furniture making, baking, home cooking, handicrafts and more. To save you the trouble of tracking down Amish and Mennonite businesses, you can simply head for the homey Pennsylvania Dutch Market, ...
Just along from the Discovery Station on Washington St is a preserved Federal-style townhouse, built in the mid-1820s. The first owner was William Price, a renowned attorney, who used the building for his law practice and family home, and later became the United States Attorney for the District of Maryland. The Price-Miller House is maintained as a...
For more insight into Hagerstown’s Hub City heyday, you can visit the site of an immense roundhouse built in 1939. This had 25 stalls, and was part of a larger complex serving as the largest railroad maintenance facility in Western Maryland. The roundhouse was pulled down in 1999, but there’s a museum in one of the preserved buildings by the CSX Ra...
Categories: city in the United States, county seat and locality. Location: Washington County, Western Maryland, Maryland, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America. View on OpenStreetMap. Latitude. 39.643° or 39° 38' 35" north. Longitude. -77.7191° or 77° 43' 9" west. Population.
Hagerstown. The web of railways that gave Hagerstown its nickname, “Hub City,” more than 150 years ago has transformed into a remarkable collection of bikeable, hikeable rail trails and more. There’s an unbelievable wealth of outdoor experiences just minutes from downtown, all nestled in the historic heart of the Civil War, and an artsy ...
City of Hagerstown, City Hall 1 E. Franklin St. Hagerstown, MD 21740 301-739-8577. Office Hours: Monday - Friday Customer Service: 8:00 AM -4:00 PM
