Short answers, pulled from the story.
Jonathan Hager officially founded the town of Elizabethtown in 1743 after purchasing land in 1739. The community changed its name to Hager's-Town in 1813 and received official endorsement from the Maryland State Legislature in 1814.
Confederate forces under Lt. Gen. Jubal Early invaded the city on Wednesday the 6th of July 1864. Brig. Gen. John McCausland led 1,500 cavalry into Hagerstown that day to levy a ransom of $20,000 and demand large amounts of clothing as retribution for U.S. destruction of farms and cattle in the Shenandoah Valley.
Distinct stone ridges run from northeast to southwest through the center of Hagerstown consisting of upper Stonehenge Limestone which is easily quarried and dressed onsite. Many older buildings were constructed from this specific stone material creating a unique appearance where the limestone whitens in weathering while edgewise conglomerate and wavy laminae become distinctly visible.
A new team called the Hagerstown Flying Boxcars opened play on the 25th of April 2024 at Meritus Park. This team replaced the previous Hagerstown Suns franchise which folded in 2021 after affiliating with the Toronto Blue Jays and San Francisco Giants.
The population reached 43,527 at the 2020 census making Hagerstown Maryland's sixth-most populous incorporated city. The metropolitan area population in 2020 stood at 293,844 with Greater Hagerstown being the fastest-growing metropolitan area in Maryland as of 2009.