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

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borough of
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Franklin
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county,
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Pennsylvania, U.S.A., near
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Antietam
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Creek, about 14 M . S.E. of
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Chambers-
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burg, and about 65 m . S.V. of
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Harrisburg . Pop . (1890) 3811; (1900) J396; (191o) 7199 . Waynesboro is served by the Cumber-
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land Valley and the Western
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Maryland
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railways . It lies at the
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foot of the
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South
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Mountain, and under the borough are many caves and caverns . A
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settlement was made here about 1734; it was called
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Mount
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Vernon for twenty years, and then
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Wallace-
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town (in
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honour of an
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early settler) until the
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close of the
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War of
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Independence, when it was named Waynesborough in honour of
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General
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Anthony
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Wayne; a
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village was platted in 1797; its
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charter as a borough, granted in 1818, was repealed in 1824 but was revived in 183o, the spelling being changed to " Waynesboro." See
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Benjamin M . Nead, Waynesboro (Harrisburg, Pa., 1900) .

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