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FROSTBURG , a- See also:

TOWN

town of Allegany See also:

COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county, See also:

MARYLAND

Maryland, U.S.A., it m. W. of See also:

Cumberland. Pop. (189o) 3804; (1900) 5274 (J78 See also:

FOREIGN

foreign-See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born and 236 negroes); (1910) 6028. It is served by the Cumberland & See also:

Pennsylvania railway and the Cumberland & Westernport electric railway. The town is about 2000 ft. above See also:

sea-level on a See also:

plateau between the See also:

GREAT

Great See also:

Savage and Dams mountains, and its delightful scenery and See also:

air have made it attractive as a summer resort. It is the seat of the second See also:

state normal school, opened in 1904. Frostburg is in the midst of the See also:

COAL

coal region of the state, and is itself almost completely under-See also:

MINED

mined; it has planing See also:

mills and manufactures large quantities of See also:

FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

fire-See also:

BRICK (derived according to some etymologists from the Teutonic bricke, a disk or plate; but more authoritatively, through the French brique, originally a " broken piece," applied especially to bread, and so to clay, from the Teutonic brikan, to break)

brick. The See also:

MUNICIPALITY

municipality owns and operates its See also:

WATER

water-See also:

WORKS

works. Natural See also:

GAS

gas is piped to Frostburg from the See also:

West See also:

Virginia See also:

FIELDS, JAMES THOMAS (1817-1881)

fields, 120 M. away. Frostburg was first settled in 1812; was called See also:

MOUNT, WILLIAM SIDNEY (1807-1868)

Mount Pleasant until about 1830, when the See also:

PRESENT

present name was substituted in See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of Meshech See also:

Frost, one of the town's founders; and was incorporated in 187o.

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