Editing Waynesboro, Pennsylvania (section)

==History==
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[[File:Waynesboro, Pennsylvania.JPG|thumb|Downtown Waynesboro]]
The region around [[Antietam Creek]] had been home to Native Americans, primarily [[Susquehannock]] and [[Lenape]], for thousands of years prior to settlement by Anglo-Europeans in the mid-18th century.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/waynesborohisto00assogoog
|title=Waynesboro: The History of a Settlement in the County formerly called Cumberland but later Franklin|page=25|last=Nead |first=Benjamin Matthias |publisher=Harrisburg Pub. Co. |year=1900}}</ref> Beginning in 1749 and again in 1751, a certain John Wallace obtained several warrants for the land on which the center of the town now stands.<ref name="GR1">{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/historyoffrankli00bate/page/530/mode/2up?q=Waynesburg
|title=History of Franklin county, Pennsylvania|page=530|last=Bates |first=Samuel Penniman |publisher=Chicago, Warner, Beers & Co. |year=1887}}</ref> In 1797, John Wallace, a son of the original Scottish settler, laid out the town of Waynesburg in Franklin County, Pennsylvania.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/waynesborohisto00assogoog
|title=Waynesboro: The History of a Settlement in the County formerly called Cumberland but later Franklin|pages=377–9|last=Nead |first=Benjamin Matthias |publisher=Harrisburg Pub. Co. |year=1900}}</ref> The place originally incorporated as Waynesburg borough on December 21, 1818, however that charter was repealed March 30, 1825. When reincorporated on January 30, 1831, the borough was given the name "Waynesboro".  It is one of several dozen towns, cities, and counties named after General [[Anthony Wayne]], a hero of the [[American Revolutionary War|American Revolution]].
[[File:AlexanderHamiltonMemFreeLib.jpg|thumb|Alexander Hamilton Memorial Free Library]]

During the [[American Civil War|Civil War]], Waynesboro played a part in the [[Gettysburg campaign]] in June and July 1863. In the week before the [[Battle of Gettysburg]], [[Confederate States Army|Confederate]] Major General [[Jubal Early]]'s [[division (military)|division]] of Lieutenant General [[Richard S. Ewell]]'s [[corps]] of the [[Army of Northern Virginia]] passed through the community on its way northward. After the battle, General [[Robert E. Lee]] rode through the border community with his retreating forces.

Numerous stone grain mills are in the area: Welty's Mill, Shank's Mill, Hopewell Roller Mill and others. Most of them still standing and in use.

By the early years of the 20th century, Waynesboro had become an industrial town. It was known for the manufacture of engines, boilers, grinders, threshers, boring machines, bolt cutters, wood and iron workers' vises, nut facers, etc. There were also foundries and machine shops and manufacturers of lumber products. Local companies included Frick Company, [[Geiser Manufacturing]], Waynesboro Knitting Mill, Connie's Sportwear, Freeman's Shoes, Landis Machine Company, and Landis Tool Company. The population of the borough had its greatest increase between 1880 and 1920 when the when the borough grew fivefold from just under 1,900 to almost 10,000.