34 GAZETTEER OF MARYLAND. [bull. 231. 
Fourth. Mine; branch, a small tributary of Gunpowder Falls in Baltimore County. 
Fowblesburg; post village in Baltimore County on the Western Maryland Railroad. 
Fowling; creek, a small tributary of Choptank River in Caroline County. 
Fowling- Creek; post village in Caroline County. 
Fox; run, a small branch of Cherry Run in Garrett County. 
Foys; hill in Cecil County. Height, 300 feet. 
Frankford; village in Wicomico County. 
Franklin; branch, a small tributary of Pocomoke River in Worcester County. 
Franklin; point in Anne Arundel County, projecting into Chesapeake Bay. 
Franklin; village in Allegany County on the Cumberland and Pennsylvania 
Railroad. 
Franklin; village in Baltimore County. 
Franklin ville ; post village in Ba.timore County. 
Frazier; post village in Calvert County. 
Frederick; city, county seat of Frederick County on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail- 
road. Population, 9,296. 
Frederick; county, bounded on the north by Pennsylvania, on the east by Carroll 
County, southeast by Montgomery County, west by Blue Ridge Mountains, 
and south by Potomac River. The surface is undulating, partly mountainous; 
the Catoctin Mountains dividing the county into two broad valleys, that to the 
westward being drained by Catoctin River and its branches and the one east- 
ward by Monocacy River, both rivers flowing into Potomac River. The area 
of the county is 662 square miles, nearly three-fourths of which, or 308,041 
acres, being under cultivation in 1900. The population for the same year was! 
51,920. The county seat and principal city is Frederick, a town of about 9,300 
inhabitants. It also contains Brunswick, a town of about 2,500 inhabitants. 
The average magnectic declination in the county in 1900 was 5° 10 / west. The 
annual rainfall commonly ranges between 45 and 50 inches and the mean annual 
temperature between 50° and 55°. 
Frederick Junction; station in Frederick County on the Baltimore and Ohio 
Railroad. 
Fredericktown; village in Cecil County. 
Freedom; village in Carroll County. 
Freeland; post village in Baltimore County on the Northern Central Railway. 
Freeman; creek, a small tributary of Sassafras River in Kent County. 
Freetown; village in Somerset County. 
Frenchtown; village in Cecil County on the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washing- 
ton Railroad. 
Friendly; post village in Prince George County. 
Friendship; post village in Anne Arundel County. 
Friendship; suburb of Baltimore City within its chartered limits. 
Friendship; village in St. Mary County. 
Friendship; station in Worcester County on the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Wash- 
ington Railroad. 
Friendsville ; post village in Garrett County on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 
Frog; hollow in Collier Mountain in Allegany County. 
Frog; point in Dorchester County, projecting into Nanticoke River. 
Frogeye; village in Somerset County. 
Frogtown; village in Harford County. 
Front Wye; river on boundary between Queen Anne and Talbot counties, a tribu- 
tary of Wye River. 
Frost; village in Anne Arundel County. 
Frostburg; town in Allegany County on the Cumberland and Pennsylvania Rail- 
road. Population, 5,274. 
