Sharpsburg, Maryland

Histories and Tidbits

 * Sharpsburg is a town in Washington County. Joseph Chapline laid out what was to be the first town in Washington County in 1763 on land called Joe's Lott. The town was renamed Sharps Burgh, in honor of Joseph's friend Governor Horatio Sharpe. At dawn on September 17, 1862 the Battle of Antietam known as "The Bloodiest Day of the Civil War" began.

Cemeteries

 * Antietam National Battlefield

5831 Dunker Church Road Sharpsburg, MD 21782 Phone: (301) 432-5124


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 * Mount Calvary Lutheran


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 * Mountain View Cemetery

Shepherdstown Pike


 * 1) USGS GNIS FID 586075
 * 2) Findagrave.com
 * 3) The USGenWeb Tombstone Project


 * Samples Manor Cemetery (aka Bethel Cemetery)

(east of Dargan, south of Sharpsburg, address given as Sharpsburg, MD)


 * 1) USGS GNIS FID 1714025


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 * Sharpsburg German Reformed Church Cemetery

West Chapline Road


 * 1) USGS GNIS FID 2542198
 * 2) Findagrave.com


 * 1) The USGenWeb Project
 * 2) Interment.net


 * Sharpsburg Methodist Cemetery


 * 1) USGS GNIS FID 2542196
 * 2) The USGenWeb Tombstone Project

In the immediate vicinity of Sharpburg:


 * Antietam National Cemetery


 * 1) USGS GNIS FID 582907
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 * 3) Political Graveyard


 * Chapline Farm Cemetery


 * 1) Findagrave.com