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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8ZD_aftermath-of-battle_Westminster-MD.html
After the cavalry engagement here on June 29, 1863, Westminster's citizens cared for dozens of wounded of both sides. Besides the human toll, shattered and broken cannons, gun carriages, and caissons lined both sides of Court Street to Main Street…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8Z1_corbits-charge_Westminster-MD.html
In June, 1863, as Gen. Robert E. Lee's infantry marched through Maryland on its second invasion of the North, Lee lost contact with Gen. J.E.B. Stuart as the cavalry commander led his force east and north around the Union army. Here, on the aftern…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8YZ_divided-loyalties_Westminster-MD.html
A block away, at what is now 71 East Main Street, stood the Abner Neal house. In August 1862, Federal soldiers arrested sixteen Westminster residents as Southern sympathizers and escorted them to Baltimore for questioning. The group, soon released…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8YY_westminster-depot_Westminster-MD.html
During the Civil War, railroads for the first time attained strategic importance for transporting troops and equipment. On July 1, 1863, Gen. Herman Haupt, chief of U.S. Military Railroads, assumed control here of the Western Maryland Railroad to …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8YW_engagement-at-westminster_Westminster-MD.html
On June 29, 1863, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's infantry was in Pennsylvania, and Gen. J.E.B. Stuart's cavalry arrived here on the outskirts of Westminster. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee's division led the column, which numbered 6,000 including cavalrymen …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM82N_mount-airy_Mt-Airy-MD.html
In 1839, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad extended its line through Mount Airy Cut, and a village soon developed here. During the Civil War, Co. K, 14th New Jersey Infantry, guarded the railroad and National Road at Mount Airy. Pine Grove Chapel, b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2Q1_parrsville-ridgeville_Mt-Airy-MD.html
Here at Milestone 31, about 130 feet southeast of its original location, the Baltimore and Frederick-Town Turnpike created two towns as it moved west. Both Parrsville and Ridgeville are now a part of Mount Airy.
Parrsville, to the east, was na…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RX_the-first-reaping-machine_Union-Bridge-MD.html
The first reaping machine in the world was invented by Jacob R. Thomas and tried near this spot in 1811. Obed Hussey perfected and patented the invention in 1839 one year prior to the McCormick reaper.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RW_adam-good-tavern_Taneytown-MD.html
Site of Adam Good Tavern visited by George Washington July 1st & 2nd 1791.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RU_robert-strawbridge_New-Windsor-MD.html
← The first preacher of Methodism in America. He formed at his house (still standing, 1938) one-half mile east of here the first Class and the first Society of American Methodism. He built the first log meeting house (1764) for Methodists in …