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Item Count: 4558
Evans Store Robbery and Shootout
Publication Year: 1995
Imagine an armed gang breaks into a store and takes a shot at the owner. Later a posse discovers the desperados in a vacant house and a shootout ensues.
Quilt Voices Program
Publication Year: 1995
In observance of Women's History Month, the Historical Society of Carroll County will present a theatrical program "Quilt Voices" which explores the lives of mid-19th-century middle-class women.
The Pageant of Shawls
Publication Year: 1995
Providing the clothing and other household textiles for the family was traditionally a task of women.
Carroll County Business Women of the 1890s
Publication Year: 1995
A century ago local women had few choices when it came to careers.
Women’s History Month Photo Essay
Publication Year: 1995
The Historical Society's photograph collection contains numerous images of local women taken from the 1840s to the present.
The Women Who Did
Publication Year: 1995
This coming Thursday evening the Historical Society will sponsor "Quilt Voices" a dramatic program about the lives of middle-class women in the nineteenth century.
1957 March of Dimes Popularity Contest
Publication Year: 1995
Two weeks ago I asked for assistance in identifying a group of young women who posed with Mrs. Gladys Wimert in the living room of her Westminster home.
Carroll Mansions Bus Tour
Publication Year: 1995
The Historical Society frequently receives inquiries from out-of-state residents for information about Charles Carroll of Carrollton, for whom our county was named.
Easter in 1895
Publication Year: 1995
A century ago Easter services were celebrated in local churches throughout the county.
Lewis Rosenberger’s Civil War Diary
Publication Year: 1995
This month marks the 130th anniversaries of the Civil War Battle of Appomattox Court House, the surrender of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and the assassination of President Lincoln.
William H. Rinehart Exhibit
Publication Year: 1995
It is rare a Carroll County farm boy ends up famous on an international scale, but William Henry Rinehart did just that.
Westminster 9, the Baltimore Orioles 7
Publication Year: 1995
One of the great stories from the County's sports history is the June 1885 baseball game between the Westminster Base Ball Club and the Baltimore Orioles.
The 1920 I.O.O.F Convention in Westminster
Publication Year: 1995
Lodges, fraternal and masonic organizations were important community groups which were both social and civic in nature.
I Don’t: An 1895 Breach of Promise Case
Publication Year: 1995
A century ago, the Carroll County Court House was the scene of an interesting law suit involving a broken promise of marriage.
Confederate Memorial Day
Publication Year: 1995
The last time I wrote a column about Memorial Day, a reader asked why I never wrote about the Confederate Memorial Day.
Tidewater Cement Co. Baseball Game 1920
Publication Year: 1995
During the last quarter of the nineteenth century, baseball became the prodominant local sport.
A Friends Wedding in 1779
Publication Year: 1995
More than two centuries ago, a young couple appeared before the members of the Pipe Creek (now Union Bridge) and the Bush Creek Quaker Meetings and declared their "Intentions of Marriage."
Swarthmore Chautauqua, 1927
Publication Year: 1995
During the early part of this century, the coming of summer meant that the Swarthmore Chautauqua would soon be coming to town.
A Battle of the Sexes in 1895
Publication Year: 1995
Throughout the mid to late nineteenth century, local newspapers followed a traditional four-page format.
Carroll County and July 4, 1776
Publication Year: 1995
The "Glorious Fourth" was quite dull here, during the day, but the patriotism evinced during the evening made up for the previous lack of its exhibition.