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Carroll History Magazine Vol. 1 | 2025
Publication Year: 2025
New Windsor Heritage has donated its archive of Louis H. Dielman glass plate photographic negatives to the Historical Society of Carroll County. The forty-one plates capture small town life in the 1890s and early 1900s.
Union Mills leather takes center stage at 1876 Centennial Exhibition
Publication Year: 2024
Union Mills is widely known for its large grist mill that still stands today at the historic site north of Westminster, open seasonally for the public to tour.
Archaeologists uncover treasures throughout the county
Publication Year: 2024
In April 1993 Joe Getty, then Director of the Historical Society of Carroll County, wrote in the Carroll County Times
Tracking the sordid path of an 1800s slave owner
Publication Year: 2024
There is no telling what you will find searching through old Carroll County records. Recently the name Bernard M. Campbell popped up in books dating to the 1850s and early 1860s.
The origin of Ellsworth Cemetery’s name leads to first Civil War martyr
Publication Year: 2024
In recent years, the Carroll County Times has covered several important events at historic Ellsworth Cemetery including its annexation into Westminster’s city limits as well as the installation of new headstones for members of the military buried there.
Westminster jewelry store only part of Hurwitz family’s rich history, last of 4 brothers
Publication Year: 2024
Melvin Hurwitz, 99 years old on March 12, grew up in Westminster with three brothers—all reaching military age during World War II.
Archaeologists reveal interesting part of Sykesville’s past
Publication Year: 2024
Archaeologists are always in search of ways to determine how our predecessors looked and lived.
In World War I, the women of Carroll County stepped up and did their part
Publication Year: 2024
As Women’s History Month draws to a close in 2024, let’s take a look at the role some of Carroll’s women played when the United States entered World War I. It was very impressive.
‘Rails and Tales’ peer back into the history of train history
Publication Year: 2024
Today is the grand opening of the Taneytown Heritage and Museum Association’s 2024 exhibit entitled “All Aboard - Rails and Tales” in its museum at 340 East Baltimore Street, Taneytown.
Carroll’s historic sites represent “an embarrassment of riches”
Publication Year: 2024
Preservation of county history was extremely important to Helen Shriver Riley and Helen Arnold Gorman, two of Carroll’s native daughters who recently passed away.
A key Revolutionary War encampment finally receives its historical marker
Publication Year: 2024
Maryland may be more well known for its Civil War history but it isn’t without notable events from the Revolutionary War era.
Hampstead man made the ultimate sacrifice in the breakout from Normandy
Publication Year: 2024
On a farm outside Hampstead, MD, Ed and Lucy Singer raised thirteen children in the 1930s. Ed Singer was a dairy farmer and also hauled milk from neighboring farms to Baltimore.
Union Mills Homestead exhibit views democracy through one family’s eyes
Publication Year: 2024
The Union Mills Homestead is happy to host a new temporary exhibit exploring the Shriver family’s political history. “Living Democracy” is a look at the day-to-day of campaigns and elections through the words and eyes of the Shrivers.
Corbit’s Charge observances, set for June 29, began with Tom LeGore
Publication Year: 2024
It is difficult to study Carroll County’s Civil War history without encountering the name G. Thomas “Tom” LeGore.
Westminster’s Great Boy Scout Bike Race of 1932 has historic implications
Publication Year: 2024
Saturday, October 8, 1932, was a warm fall day with the temperature reaching 71 according to weather records. The United States was in the third year of the Great Depression, and historic changes were about to happen around the world.
Fond memories of a childhood in Carroll County
Publication Year: 2024
For fifteen weeks during 1910 the Union Bridge Pilot newspaper published a series of “Reminiscences” written by James Lebbius Switzer.
New roadside historic marker placed at birthplace of Union Mills’ founders
Publication Year: 2024
Carroll County was recently honored with the installation of another roadside historic marker. Such markers are placed by the State Highway Administration to note sites of cultural significance along Maryland roadways.
Wandering west on a genealogical road trip
Publication Year: 2024
I had not returned to searching for my paternal roots in Missouri for over 20 years. In 2001, I took my parents out there for my father’s last high school class reunion.
Harry Shriver’s war: A misadventure
Publication Year: 2024
Founded in 1797, the Union Mills Homestead was home to six generations of the Shriver family over 160 years.
Franklinville: A community lost to progress
Publication Year: 2024
Driving west of Taylorsville on Maryland Route 26 (Liberty Road) try not to blink or you’ll miss what remains of the community of Franklinville.