November 17, 2009 | Posted by javal A bronze plaque honoring slave Dred Scott and his wife Harriet will be unveiled at ceremonies today in front of Frederick’s City Hall.
The plaque and granite pedestal is adjacent to an older monument to Roger Brooke Taney, the U.S. Supreme Court chief justice who lived in Frederick and whose controversial decision in the Dred Scott [...]
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November 3, 2009 | Posted by javal As a little girl, Cathy Beeler loved playing with cap guns.
“I even got busted by my mom for sneaking one into a little pink purse and taking it to church when I was about 4 years old,” Beeler said. “My father condoned it all until I was about 9 or 10, when he threw them [...]
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October 28, 2009 | Posted by javal When Laurie Verge took the job as director of the historic Surratt House Museum in Clinton, she didn’t believe in ghosts.
Now, more than 25 years and several eerie, unexplained episodes later, her opinion hasn’t changed much. A ghost, she said, “is going to have to tap me on the shoulder or talk to me before [...]
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October 26, 2009 | Posted by javal The Civil War was the subject for filmmakers Sunday in Hagerstown.
Over 50 people gathered at the Hagerstown Rod and Gun Club, many dressed as soldiers, who marched and set off canons. Other re-enactors dressed as town folk, and even President Lincoln and General Lee made an appearance.
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October 23, 2009 | Posted by javal Today is probably John Latschar’s final day working for the National Park Service in Gettysburg.
On Monday, Latschar said, he will report to the Historic Preservation Training Center in Frederick, Md., as the new special assistant to the Park Service’s associate director for cultural resources.
The 15-year steward of the Gettysburg Battlefield said he received official paperwork [...]
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October 21, 2009 | Posted by javal A historically registered house off of Leitersburg Pike in Hagerstown has quite a history. It hosted wounded soldiers during the civil war, and was home to Dr. Frederick Dorsey, a well known doctor who travelled around Washington County.
Now the house is facing a battle of it’s own as a new construction project by Oliver Homes [...]
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October 19, 2009 | Posted by javal A cold, rainy Saturday morning didn’t dim enthusiasm surrounding the historical significance of a new Civil War Trails marker dedication in downtown Frederick .
The marker was dedicated near the former B&O Railroad station at South Market and All Saints streets in commemoration of Frederick ’s role in the 1859 John Brown’s Raid.
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October 19, 2009 | Posted by javal Audience members at Art Callaham’s lecture about Robert E. Lee on Sunday afternoon should have known something was up when Callaham mentioned he was expecting a guest speaker, who was tardy arriving from the B&O Railroad station in town.
The “guest speaker” was Callaham, who after leaving the Bowman Gallery at Washington County Museum of Fine [...]
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October 14, 2009 | Posted by javal The town was visited by a well-known Confederate soldier 147 years ago this week.
Major General J.E.B. Stuart, along with more than 1,800 soldiers and 1,000 horses, marched through the town Oct. 10 and 11, 1862, on the way to Richmond, Va.
Five town residents were taken hostage by the calvary and released Oct. 23, 1862, during [...]
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October 7, 2009 | Posted by javal Frederick County Sheriff’s deputies credit a famous plastic head with helping them solve a murder mystery.
On May 7, 2006, deputies were called to the 4900 block of Pintail Court for a reported suicide.
But “something didn’t feel right about the scene,” said Cpl. Rick Winer, the supervisor of the sheriff’s department’s evidence unit. “It just didn’t [...]
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