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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM17Z_market-patrick-streets_Frederick-MD.html
Frederick found itself occupied alternatively by Confederate and Union armies during the Civil War. Citizens who frequented this "Square Corner" of Market and Patrick Streets saw Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia march west from here …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM17Y_1862-antietam-campaign_Frederick-MD.html
Fresh from victory at the Second Battle of Manassas, Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia crossed the Potomac River on September 4-6, 1862, to bring the Civil War to Northern soil and to recruit sympathetic Marylanders. Union Gen. George…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM17X_hospitals-in-frederick_Frederick-MD.html
In this building, soldiers who died in one of the many area hospitals following the battles of South Mountain, Antietam, Gettysburg, and Moncacy were embalmed and prepared for interment at nearby Mount Olivet Cemetery or for shipment home. James W…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM17W_frederick_Frederick-MD.html
Frederick Town was founded in 1745 when Daniel Dulany the Elder carved out an eastern portion of his 7,000 acre parcel patented as "Tasker's Chance." The town was then laid out in an orderly grid with Patrick Street designated as the east-west tho…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM17U_rose-hill-manor_Frederick-MD.html
You are on the grounds of Rose Hill Manor, the final home of Maryland's first governor, Thomas Johnson. During its stay near Frederick, the Army of the Potomac's large Artillery Reserve occupied these grounds. Created after the Battle of Chancello…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16F_the-national-road_Frederick-MD.html
". . . so many happy people, restless in the midst of abundance." —Alexis de Tocqueville, 1840.
Americans are an adventurous people. Frompast to present, they have used feet, horses,wagons, stagecoaches, canals, railroads,bicycles, automo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16A_a-crossroads-of-american-history_Frederick-MD.html
The Square Corner, at the intersection of Patrick and Market Streets, has long been the commercial and financial heart of Frederick. It is here that the National Road meets several important north-south roads that lead to Pennsylvania, Virginia, a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM164_hessian-barracks-witness-to-history_Frederick-MD.html
1777 Built at direction of Maryland General Assembly
1778-79 Quartered Hessian and Convention prisoners captured at Bennington and Saratoga
1782 Quartered Hessian and Bayreuth Yager Regiments following Cornwallis' surrender
1799 Quarte…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM162_the-great-baby-waker_Frederick-MD.html
On April 22, 1783, this historic cannon announcedthe end of the American Revolution here on the western frontier of the new nation
Cat at the Mount Aetna forge nearHagerstown, this iron fortification gunentered service at the New FrederickBarra…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM160_these-barracks_Frederick-MD.html
1776 - 1814These BarracksMark the course of the strugglefor American IndependenceBuilt in 1777 by the British and Hessian prisoners of the Revolutionary War, here were detained those taken at the Battles of Saratoga, Trenton, and Yorktown, also th…