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The statue of Captain John O’Donnell, an 18th century merchant who enslaved dozens of Black people on his Maryland plantation ...
Begin your exploration at each of the three county historical societies and learn more about the intricacies of the houses in which they reside.
“He was crucified for us!” an elderly African American from York, Pennsylvania, told a newspaper that Easter weekend.
Many of the new artifacts carry the weight of history, but also the freedom stories and intimate histories of the families ...
The Women’s Christian Temperance Union group started in 1874 intending to end the consumption of alcohol in the United States ...
When the last Alexander Neill died in 1911, the community mourned the passing of three men who helped shape the history of ...
host a town hall in Frederick, Maryland, Wednesday, March 19, 2025. (Graeme Jennings, Washington Examiner) There was but brief passive acknowledgment by either lawmaker of the civil war playing ...
A weekend getaway or a day trip from nearby Washington, D.C, Baltimore, MD, Richmond, VA, or Harrisburg, PA to Winchester, VA, are all within a […] ...
A new boutique hotel with quite a history is opening this week in Frederick, Maryland ... and which was used as a hospital during the Civil War—is available for rental as a ballroom, including ...
Before this year, the most recent deed for the Point of Rocks Colored Cemetery was from 1879 — when the cemetery was established. In February of this year, 146 years later, a Maryland Circuit Court ...
The changes were made "without approval from the agency nor department leadership," the NPS said in a statement.
Margie Burns, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (THE CONVERSATION ... Use of the phrase did not end with Emancipation or the end of the U.S. Civil War. In fact, it was one of Frederick Douglass ...