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Big Tonoloway and Little Tonoloway Creeks empty into the nearby Potomac River, and Tonoloway is a Native American word meaning "long tail" or "wildcat." People of English, German, and Scots-Irish descent who came down from present-day Fulton County, Pennsylvania, first settled this area in the 1730's. On a hill to the northwest, the colony of Maryland erected a small stockade fort in the fall of 1755. Stoddert's Fort was garrisoned by 15 men to protect the settlements at the Tonoloways from hostile Indian war parties. The colonists abandoned and burned the fort in the summer of 1756 after the completion of the more formidable Fort Frederick, 12 miles to the east.
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