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Place Name
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Barnesville
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Place Status (Type)
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town
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Population
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170 (1990)
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Location
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Montgomery County, Maryland (MD), United States, North America
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Latitude
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39°13'N
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Longitude
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77°23'W
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Barnesville
, town (1990 pop. 170), Montgomery co.,
central Md., 25 mi/40 km NW of Washington,
D.C.; 39°13'N 77°23'W. Nearby is the Al Marah Arabian horse farm
and mus., reputedly the largest privately owned one in world. Named for
William Barnes, a local landowner who later moved to Ohio and founded
Barnesville in Belmont co. A mass grave of working men who died of
cholera building the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal is in the yard of St.
Mary's Church here.
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