View of Middletown Valley from the observatory

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51:-Middletown Valley from the Observatory, showing Middletown in the @E.S.MECARb 22608 distance from Braddock Heights, Md.

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MIDDLETOWN VALLEY takes its name from Middletown, lying midway between Catoc- tin and South Mountain, each part of the Blue Ridge. The valley was settled by Ger- man immigrants about the middle of the eighteenth century. Farming is the chief oc- cupation of the people. ast Copyright Edgar S. McCardell, Braddock Heights, Md. cocamo>3 IN 20