Barnesville

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Barnesville (MARC station)

The Barnesville MARC Station in Barnesville, MD is a passenger rail station on the MARC Brunswick Line between Washington, D.C. and Martinsburg, WV (with and extension to Frederick, MD). It is located at 8 Beallsville Road (MD 109) in Barnesville, Maryland. The station house is located on the southwest corner of the 14 feet 1 inch (4.29 m) railroad bridge over Beallsville Road, while parking is available on the northwest and southwest corners of the railroad bridge.

Barnesville station was built on the former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Main Line which also contains a station in Barnesville, Ohio.

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Barnesville, Georgia

Barnesville is a city in Lamar County, Georgia, United States. The city is a part of the Atlanta Metropolitan Area. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 6,755. The city is the county seat of Lamar County.

Barnesville was once dubbed the "Buggy Capital of the South" as the town produced about 9,000 buggies a year around the turn of the 20th century. Each year in the third week of September the town hosts an annual Buggy Days celebration.

History

Barnesville was founded in 1826 and named for local tavern owner Gideon Barnes. In 1920, Barnesville was designated seat of the newly formed Lamar County.

Barnesville served as a major hospital site for wounded southern troops during the Civil War. Local families took wounded soldiers into their homes and treated them, with highly successful recovery rates. Major General William B. Bate, CSA of Hardees Corps., wounded in Atlanta at Utoy Creek on August 10, 1864, was treated here. After the war, General Bate was elected Governor of Tennessee and served in the United States Senate until his death in 1912. He commented on his successful recovery as a result of the kindness of the local populace in Barnesville.