Carroll Yesteryears 13 May 2018 Woman Escaped Potato Famine, Sued B&O Railroad and Bought Eldersburg Farm By Mary Ann Ashcraft We are a nation of immigrants, survivors of myriad hardships. Today’s column features the story of a courageous Irishwoman named Hannah Dougherty who came to Baltimore to escape the Potato Famine of the 1840s and 1850s [...]
Carroll Yesteryears 12 May 2019 Off to the Races By W. Peter Pearre Just south of Middleburg, Maryland, beneath what may be a field of corn later this year, lies hidden a long forgotten horse track. This is where Cloverbrook, the first horse bred, born and trained in Maryland to win the Preakness, was introduced to [...]
Carroll Yesteryears 28 April 2019 New Exhibit Shows Toll World War II Took on Taneytown By David Buie On April 7th of this year the Taneytown Historical Museum opened its season with the exhibit “WW II Impacts Hometown: The Far-reaching Effects WW II Had on Taneytown.” The large collection of memorabilia does a fantastic job of [...]
Carroll Yesteryears 14 April 2019 Rewriting History Appropriate to Convey Corrected Facts By Jeff Duvall Here is an issue which has been showing up more and more over the last few years. What if material presented as fact on the internet, in local history books, and in newspapers is actually wrong? The question becomes, do we [...]
Carroll Yesteryears 24 March 2019 Old newspapers a Treasure Trove of Local Information By Mary Ann Ashcraft Do you enjoy finding copies of old newspapers, perhaps ones unearthed in the attic, lining an old trunk, or stuffed in a crevice to keep out the cold? No matter how long ago that paper was printed, there usually [...]
Carroll Yesteryears 10 March 2019 Many Books Can Help in Quest for Carroll County History By Mary Ann Ashcraft For many years, the Carroll County Times has supported local history by carrying this column— “Carroll’s Yesteryears.” Since 1990, Joe Getty, Jay Graybeal, and I have written articles covering everything from cigars to the Civil War except [...]
Carroll Yesteryears 24 February 2019 Historical Society of Carroll County Celebrating 80th Anniversary By Mary Ann Ashcraft Please save this date–Sunday, March 10th from 2 until 5 p.m.–for the Historical Society of Carroll County’s Open House. All three historic buildings at 206, 210, and 216 East Main Street in Westminster will be open to visitors of [...]
Carroll Yesteryears 10 February 2019 Church and Education Were Important to Those Who Built Western Chapel Community By Mary Ann Ashcraft Time has not been very kind to most of Carroll’s small African American communities that sprang up after the Civil War. Who knows the whereabouts of Priestland, White Rock, Newport, Dorseytown, Muttontown, Johnsville, and Western [...]
Carroll Yesteryears 27 January 2019 Jacob Good’s Contribution to the Revolution, Taneytown are Deserving of Recognition By David Buie The “Carroll’s Yesteryears” column of January 13 introduced Taneytown resident Jacob Good, a young man who gained financial success as a land broker and owner of a tavern in the town’s early years. In January 1775 he [...]
Carroll Yesteryears 13 January 2019 Lesser-known Good brother, Jacob, key early figure in Taneytown By David Buie Adam Good is the most famous member of the Taneytown Good clan for his "George Washington slept here” story, but it is his brother, Jacob, who deserves better name recognition. It is not clear where Jacob lived in Taneytown, [...]