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Item Count: 4558
The Life of a 19th Century Doctor
Publication Year: 2011
All of us probably have a mental picture of the old-time country doctor traveling around the countryside in a buggy with a medical case full of pills.
Manuscript a Valuable Resource
Publication Year: 2011
New Windsor resident Nathan Haines Baile (1846-1926) was a person to whom Carroll County will always be indebted because he left behind a fascinating account of his life and times.
Herrs Had a Strong Reputation
Publication Year: 2011
Westminster’s Main Street has always been home to a wide variety of businesses as well as residences. From 1870 until the early twentieth century, a carriage-making firm belonging to Frank K.
Gravestones a Genealogist’s Friend
Publication Year: 2011
If you are a genealogist, finding the gravestones of your ancestors is like dying and going to Heaven. With this in mind, the Carroll County Genealogical Society decided to make copying local cemeteries one of its priorities when it was founded in 1981.
Family Bibles Provide Rich History
Publication Year: 2011
It seems so tragic when family bibles, especially those with births, deaths, and marriages recorded in them, end up at an auction instead of being passed down.
Camp Meeting was a Marquee Event for 37 Years
Publication Year: 2011
With the dark, cold days of winter approaching, let’s look back at an important Carroll County summer event which occurred yearly from 1871 until 1907 – the Linwood Camp Meeting.
General Fought in Many Places Over 40-Year Tenure
Publication Year: 2011
Nearly one hundred years ago, Marion P. Maus, a sixty-something U.S. Army brigadier general, and his wife, decided to spend part of each retirement year living at the Dielman Inn on the corner of Main and High Streets in New Windsor.
Poem Celebrates the Christmas Spirit
Publication Year: 2011
During the nineteenth century, people often presented original poetry to friends and family. This charming poem written by Louis Edwin Shriver of the Union Mills Homestead was a gift to his nieces who also lived there.
A Westminster Friendship
Publication Year: 2010
In any small community, it is not surprising that leading citizens will know each other and perhaps impact each other’s lives.
A Brief Look At The Carroll County Home Front During World War I
Publication Year: 2010
Europe must have seemed as far away in 1917 as Iraq and Afghanistan do today y, but the people of Carroll County rallied whole-heartedly to support the massive U.S.
Early Settlement And Religious Growth In The Freedom District Of Carroll County
Publication Year: 2010
As many of us learned in school, George Calvert, Lord Baltimore, founded Maryland as a refuge for Roman Catholics who had not been treated
Carroll Full of Historic ‘Leftovers’
Publication Year: 2010
Are you still consuming Christmas leftovers – cookies, candy, turkey soup, ham sandwiches? Well, Carroll County has lots of historic “leftovers” – relics of its past worth noting.
County Marks 173rd Anniversary
Publication Year: 2010
Happy Birthday, Carroll County! You will be 173 years old on Tuesday, January 19th and we will honor you with a celebration at the Church of the Ascension’s Holy Cross Hall.
Laborers Flocked to Town in Early 20th Century
Publication Year: 2010
Almost overnight, during the second decade of the twentieth century, Union Bridge changed from a typical Carroll County agricultural community to a miniature Baltimore.
Civil War Soldiers Were Diverse
Publication Year: 2010
It was the 1989 film "Glory" which introduced many of us to the role played by the United States Colored Troops during the Civil War.
Map Provides Peek at 1862
Publication Year: 2010
If a picture is worth a thousand words, what is a map worth? There is a 1507 map of the known world currently on exhibit at the Library of Congress.
Tanning Popular in Carroll
Publication Year: 2010
It was a dirty, smelly business, but someone had to do it and there were lots of people in Carroll County who practiced tanning in the nineteenth century.
Waterways Help Define County’s Outline, Character
Publication Year: 2010
Ouch! Many apologies to readers of this column for mistakenly calling the stream which runs past the Shriver Homestead in Union Mills "Double Pipe Creek."
Ads Give Insight to Life
Publication Year: 2010
Charles Sower published a newspaper in Uniontown during the second decade of the nineteenth century known as The Engine of Liberty and Uniontown Advertiser with a yearly subscription rate of $2.00.
Diverse Beginnings
Publication Year: 2010
So much attention is paid to the Pennsylvania German heritage of Carroll County that we often forget other ethnic groups which migrated into this area at an early date.