1910-1930

1910-1930. The Great War and Roaring 20's. , 1912 , Thomas Pangborn moves his sand-blast manufacturing business to Hagerstown., 1915 , The Maryland Theatre is constructed. The Hagerstown Municipal Band plays its first concert that July in this theater., 1915 , The Hagerstown Hubs becomes the City's first professional baseball team and were part of the Blue Ridge League. They played in a stadium called "Willow Lane Park" located across South Potomac Street from here., 1916 , The city purchases land for City Park. The park opens in 1921., 1917 , The Maryland Pressed Steel Company begins the manufacture of aircraft in Hagerstown. This venture closed at the end of World War I, but in 1923, the Kreider-Reisner Aircraft Company begins building aircraft at a shop on Pennsylvania Avenue., 1918 , The Hagerstown Municipal Electric Light Plant begins operation., 1921 , Hagerstown holds its first "Mummers" Parade., 1922 , Under the leadership of Mayor Dr. John M. Scott, sanitary systems are introduced. The Sewer Department first utilized an "Imhoff Tank" for sewage treatment of municipal wastewater., 1928 , The Willson Water Plant begins operation on December 7, improving public health and supporting more intense urban development., 1929 , The Washington County Museum of Fine Arts is founded in City Park by Mr. and Mrs. William Henry Singer, Jr. . This historical marker is in Hagerstown in Washington County Maryland