Sharpsburg is a town in Washington County, Maryland. The area was surveyed by Edward Cartledge as "Hickory Tavern" in 1737, and the Great Philadelphia Wagon Road became the new town's main street. At the end of the French and Indian War, Joseph Chapline named the town after Governor Horatio Sharpe, and its original settlers were mostly German or Swiss immigrants who reached the area from Pennsylvania via the wagon road. Sharpsburg's tobacco production industry was soon replaced by wheat, and the extension of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal to Sharpsburg in 1836 led to the arrival of industry in the town. Sharpsburg became the site of the famed Battle of Antietam (called the "Battle of Sharpsburg" by the Confederacy) on 17 September 1862 during the American Civil War, and the town's Memorial Day commemoration was one of the first of its kind in the United States. In 2019, Sharpsburg had a population of 647 people.
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