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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 433 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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WAYNESBORO , a See also:

BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)

borough of See also:

Franklin 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:

Pennsylvania, U.S.A., near See also:

ANTIETAM

Antietam See also:

Creek, about 14 M. S.E. of See also:

Chambers-See also:

BURG

burg, and about 65 m. S.V. of See also:

HARRISBURG

Harrisburg. Pop. (1890) 3811; (1900) J396; (191o) 7199. Waynesboro is served by the Cumber-See also:

LAND

land Valley and the Western See also:

MARYLAND

Maryland See also:

RAILWAYS

railways. It lies at the See also:

FOOT

foot of the See also:

South See also:

Mountain, and under the borough are many caves and caverns. A See also:

settlement was made here about 1734; it was called See also:

MOUNT, WILLIAM SIDNEY (1807-1868)

Mount See also:

Vernon for twenty years, and then See also:

Wallace-See also:

TOWN

town (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 an See also:

early settler) until the See also:

close of the See also:

War of See also:

Independence, when it was named Waynesborough in honour of See also:

General See also:

Anthony See also:

WAYNE, ANTHONY (1745-1796)

Wayne; a See also:

VILLAGE

village was platted in 1797; its See also:

CHARTER (Lat. charta, carta, from Gr. Xap-rns, originally for papyrus, material for writing, thence transferred to paper and from this material to the document, in O. Eng. boc, book)

charter as a borough, granted in 1818, was repealed in 1824 but was revived in 183o, the spelling being changed to " Waynesboro." See See also:

Benjamin M. Nead, Waynesboro (Harrisburg, Pa., 1900).

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