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Gifts to historical society continue
The Bell Pottery Collection was given to the Washington County Historical Society by Frank W. and Roy V. Mish in honor of Mary Vernon Mish. The first telephone service at the Miller House cost $4.80 a month, and installation cost $6. In August...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), Local Government, American Legion, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland)
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Samples Manor Cemetery to start spring cleaning
The Samples Manor Cemetery Committee will start spring cleaning for Easter. The committee asks residents who have placed memorial items such as flowers and statues on the graves of loved ones to remove and collect these items by March 15, or the...Tags: Anglicanism, Auction Service, Christianity, Arts and Culture, Religion and Belief
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Fort Frederick was used during three conflicts
The Washington County Historical Society chose as its first preservation efforts in 1911 the Washington Monument and Fort Frederick because of their importance to both local and national historic events. The history of the monument was covered in last...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Bedford County (Pennsylvania), Wars and Interventions, American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), Government
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Sale of downtown Annapolis post office building will end era ... eventually
Since 1901, Annapolis residents and downtown workers have been dropping off letters and buying stamps at the brick Georgian Revival-style post office on Church Circle. But not for much longer. A vote by the state's Board of Public Works on Wednesday...
Tags: Annapolis, U.S. Postal Service, Mail Order Industry, Rental Service, Arts and Culture
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Maryland agrees to buy Annapolis post office
Maryland officials agreed Wednesday to buy the historic Annapolis post office building from the U.S. Postal Service for use as part of the government complex surrounding the State House. Without dissent, the three-member Board of Public Works agreed to...
Tags: Annapolis, U.S. Postal Service, Mail Order Industry, Human Interest
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With opening of Mill No. 1, the Jones Falls Valley's makeover is nearly complete
Standing amid his $44 million refurbished textile mill, now nearing completion, developer and one-time mayoral candidate David Tufaro observed a bird wading in the Jones Falls nearby. "That's our great blue heron," Tufaro said. Water birds fly up...
Tags: Ellicott City, Jones Falls, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Whitehall, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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Maryland seeks historic status for Fort Carroll
When she thinks of Fort Carroll, the abandoned 19th-century military installation in the Patapsco River, Beverly Eisenberg thinks of her grandfather — and of duckpin bowling balls. She visited the six-sided artificial island as a little girl, just...
Tags: Baltimore County, World War I (1914-1918), Government, Conservation, Politics
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Orlando Ridout V, architectural historian
Orlando Ridout V, a historian of early Maryland buildings who explored crawl spaces and attics for their social and architectural details, died of pancreatic cancer complications April 6 at Anne Arundel Medical Center. The lifelong Annapolis resident...
Tags: St. Michaels, Annapolis, Queen Anne's County, Architecture, University of Virginia
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Abandoned Henryton hospital slated for demolition
Perched on a wooded bluff in rural southeastern Carroll County, the old Henryton State Hospital bears silent witness to the ravages of decades of neglect and vandalism. First opened in 1923, the 18-building complex that once housed the sick and...
Tags: Photography, Baltimore County, Patapsco, Painting, Carroll County (Maryland)
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Author to Speak at HCC
The Hays-Heighe House at Harford Community College will welcome Dr. Alan Taylor on April 8 as part of the College's commemoration of the Bicentennial of the War of 1812. Taylor will offer a public lecture at the Chesapeake Center at 10 a.m. His talk,...Tags: Annapolis, Harford Community College, War of 1812, Entertainment Events, Education
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Civil War interpretation efforts lauded
The City of Hagerstown, the Hagerstown-Washington County Conventional and Visitors Bureau and the Heart of the Civil War Heritage Area were recognized Jan. 31 at a Maryland Historical Trust awards ceremony at the Governor Calvert Ballroom in Annapolis....
Tags: Culture, Wars and Interventions, Awards and Prizes, Annapolis, History (tv network)
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Demolition is best option for properties near new library
The line that separates “historic” from “blighted” is often too fine to discern. Historic buildings are only of value if someone with tremendously deep pockets can be found to breathe new life into them, and without such a patron...Tags: Libraries, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Arts and Culture, Human Interest
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