Zittlestown is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

southeast of Boonsboro in Washington County,

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. It is situated on the western slope of South Mountain below Turner's Gap, along the historic

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, now designated

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. Zittlestown is named after Michael Zittle, Sr. (1769-1850), who in 1811 purchased tracts of land there, and subdivided them.Elizabeth Jayne Blair and Leona Miller Hart, ''The Descendants of Michael Zittle, Sr.'' (Anchorage, Alaska: n.p., 1995), p. 3. In the

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, the

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on 14 September 1862 was fought around Zittlestown.

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