Sharpsburg, Maryland
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Sharpsburg is a town in Washington County, Maryland. The town is about 13 miles south of Hagerstown. Its population was 560 at the 2020 census.
A street clock in downtown Sharpsburg, October 2007
A visitor's sign at the Antietam National Battlefield near Sharpsburg, in June 2005
MD 34 eastbound along Main Street in Sharpsburg
Antietam Creek
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Antietam Creek is a 41.7-mile-long tributary of the Potomac River located in south central Pennsylvania and western Maryland in the United States, a region known as the Hagerstown Valley. The creek be
Sharpsburg, Maryland
…the Battle of Antietam—referred to as the Battle of Sharpsburg by the South—was fought on what is now Antietam National Battlefield, in the vicinity of Antietam Creek. The first American of European descent to own land in what would become Sharpsburg was trader Edmund Cartledge. By the time Cartledge surveyed his…
Burnside's Bridge traversing Antietam Creek near Sharpsburg, Maryland, site of heavy combat during the Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg) on September 17, 1862
The middle bridge over Antietam Creek, also near Sharpsburg, photographed September 1862