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Frederick Information
Frederick, Maryland is a city in Frederick County, Maryland, and is also the
county seat. As of the 2004 census estimates, the city has a total population of
57,009, making it the fourth-largest city in Maryland following Rockville,
Gaithersburg, and Baltimore, which has the largest population. Frederick's
newspaper of record is The Frederick News-Post. Frederick is home to Frederick
Municipal Airport (FDK), which primarily accommodates general aviation traffic.
“Frederick Town” was laid out in 1745 and became the county seat of Frederick
County three years later. It is uncertain which Frederick the town was named
for, but the likeliest candidates are Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore and
Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales.
Many of the Pennsylvania Dutch settled in Frederick as they migrated westward in
the late 18th Century. Frederick was a stop along the German migration route
that led down through the Shenandoah Valley all the way to the western Piedmont
in North Carolina. Frederick also had Jewish residents as early as the 1740s,
when pioneers Henry Lazarus and Levy Cohan settled there as merchants.
An organized Jewish community, comprised mainly of German Jewish immigrants,
took shape in the mid-nineteenth century and the Frederick Hebrew Congregation
was organized in 1858. Later the congregation lapsed, but was reorganized in
1919 as a cooperative effort between the older settlers and more recently
arrived Eastern European Jews under the name Beth Sholom.