"A Novel Maryland Tobacco Store" Carroll County Times Article for 14 April 1996 By Jay A. Graybeal The September 4, 1896 issue of Tobacco carried a front page story entitled "A Novel Maryland Store" and an interior photograph of Charles Valentine Wantz's Westminster store located in the Wantz Building at 25 E. Main St. The article describes the [...]
"Easter Postcards" Carroll County Times Article for 7 April 1996 By Jay A. Graybeal The introduction of the postal card in the 1880s provided greeting card makers with a new medium for sending holiday wishes. American, German and British firms produced millions of cards for the American market. Those designed for Easter featured an almost endless [...]
"A Story of Some Humble Cutlery" Carroll County Times Article for 31 March 1996 By Jay A. Graybeal More than fifty years ago, Rev. William E. Roop, A. M. of Meadow Branch Church of the Brethren wrote about some old cutlery which had been used in the church for nearly a century. To him the old [...]
"Carroll County Quilting Traditions" Carroll County Times article for 24 March 1996 by Jay A. Graybeal I recently presented a slide lecture about Maryland quilts to the members of Everybody's Quilt Guild, a group of local quilters that meet at Jerusalem Lutheran Church in Bachman's Valley. This organization is one of several in the county that [...]
"Aunt Betsy's" Carroll County Times Article for 17 March 1996 By Jay A. Graybeal When Mary B. Shellman wrote about the "early pioneers" of Westminster in her book, Two Hundred Years Ago, (1924) she began with a description of "Aunt Betsy's": When I look back over the many years since my happy, carefree, early childhood, I see [...]
"Family Search is Ready for Use" Carroll County Times Article for 3 March 1996 By Jay A. Graybeal In an earlier column I wrote that the Historical Society and the Carroll County Genealogical Society had formed a partnership to purchase a new computer system called "Family Search." This new source uses CD-ROM technology and allows the [...]
"Records of manumissions began after formation of Carroll County" Carro1l County Times Article for 25 February 1996 By Duane K. Doxzen After the formation of Carroll County in 1837 from parts of Baltimore and Frederick counties, the register of wills in Westminster began recording manumissions of slaves from wills of county residents. Some of Carroll's slave, [...]
"Many Carroll blacks served in Colored Troops during Civil War" Carroll County Times Article 18 February 1996 By Duane K. Doxzen Although blacks had served in military units before the Civil War, it was this conflict that saw the enlistment of blacks in large numbers. A significant number of Carroll County free blacks and manumitted slaves [...]
"County's black heritage records valuable" Carroll County Times Article for 11 February 1996 By Duane K. Doxzen On March 22, 1867 the Maryland General Assembly passed an act to record the number of slaves who had been emancipated by the Constitution of 1864. The purpose of this act was to gather evidence to support the [...]
"African American History Month" Carroll County Times Article for 4 February 1996 By Jay A. Graybeal For a number of years, the Historical Society has sponsored a special lecture during Black History Month. Some past programs have explored an introduction to local history sources, church history, schools and education and military service. These programs have served [...]