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EARLY SETTLEMENTS.
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EaaterD counties to settle in this section of couutry.
From what is now Frederick county came most of
the early settlers about Fort Cumberland, nearly all
of them being emigrants from Germany and England.
Settlements sprung up at Fort Cumberland, Oldtown,
on George's Creek, and at points further west.
Frederick county then embraced all the Western
part of Maryland, and it was not until 1776 that
Washington county was taken from it. In 1789
Allegany county was organized.
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