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Frosts; village in Allegany County on the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg 
" Railroad. 
Frozen Camp; run, a small branch of Cherry Run in Garrett County. 
Fruitland; post village in Wicomico County on the New York, Philadelphia and 
Norfolk Railroad. 
Fryers; wharf on Sassafras River in Kent County. 
Fryingpan; cove, a small inlet of Chester River in Kent County. 
Fulford; post village in Harford County. 
Fullerton, post village in Baltimore County. 
Fulton; post village in Howard County. 
Funkstown; town in Washington County. Population, 559. 
Furnace; creek, a small tributary of Chesapeake Bay. 
Furnace; creek, a small branch of Curtis Creek in Anne Arundel County. 
Furnace; creek, a small tributary of Potomac River in Frederick County. 
Furnace; village in Harford County. 
Furnace; village in Worcester County. 
Gab; small island at mouth of Lighting Knot Cove in Somerset County. 
Gaither; post village in Carroll County. 
Gaithersburg; town in Montgomery County on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 
Population, 547. 
Galena; town in Kent County. Population, 251. 
Gales; creek, a small branch of Rhode River in Anne Arundel County. 
Gales; creek, a small tributary of Big Annemessex River in Somerset County. 
Gales; wharf on Worton Creek in Kent County. 
Galestown; post village in Dorchester County. 
Gallant Green; post village in Charles County on the Washington, Potomac and 
Chesapeake Railroad. 
Galloway; creek, a small branch of Middle Creek in Baltimore County. 
Galloway; point in Baltimore County, projecting into Middle River. 
Galloways; post village in Anne Arundel County. 
Gambage; small marshy island in Turville Creek in Worcester County. 
Gamber; village in Carroll County. 
Gambrills; post village on the Annapolis, Washington and Batimore Railroad. 
Gapland; post village in Washington County on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 
Garland; post village in Harford County. 
Garrett; county, bounded on the north by Pennsylvania, on the east by Washington 
County, on the south by the North Branch of Potomac River, and on the west 
by West Virginia. The county is comprised mainly in the Allegany Plateau, 
having an undulating surface with an average altitude not far from 2,500 feet, 
and rising to a mountain range above the North Branch of Potomac River, known 
as Backbone Mountain, which has an extreme height of 3,400 feet and an aver- 
age altitude of 3,000 feet. The northwest part is drained by Youghiogheny 
River to the Ohio and the southeast part by North Branch of the Potomac. The 
area is 240 square miles, of which less than 30 per cent, or 123,932 acres, was 
under cultivation in 1900. The population for the same year was 17,701. The 
county seat is Oakland, with a population of 2,170 in 1900. The average mag- 
netic declination in the county in 1900 was 3° 45 / . The annual rainfall com- 
monly ranges between 45 and 50 inches, and the mean annual temperature 
between 45° and 50°. 
Garrett; small island in Susquehanna River in Cecil County. 
Garrett Park; town in Montgomery County on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 
Population, 175. 
Garrison; post village in Baltimore County. 
Gary; post village in Howard County. 
