Carroll Yesteryears 26 February 2012 Area Should be Proud of Early Anti-Slavery Sentiment by Mary Ann Ashcraft The Quaker faith, also known as the Religious Society of Friends, was practiced by families who settled in the Union Bridge area prior to 1750. Quakers believed in dressing plainly, refused to participate in war, and generally opposed slavery, [...]
Carroll Yesteryears 12 February 2012 Railroads Once a Spark to Industry by Mary Ann Ashcraft As I rode the train to New York City over Christmas vacation, I was appalled at how the countryside looked on the outskirts of almost every city. The shells of abandoned industrial buildings blended with heaps of rusting metal and empty [...]
Carroll Yesteryears 22 January 2012 History Flows Through Liberty Reservoir by Mary Ann Ashcraft Beneath the quiet waters of Liberty Reservoir lies a lot of buried history. What looks like a natural lake has only existed about sixty years. By the 1920s, the city of Baltimore realized it needed additional supplies of water and looked to [...]
Carroll Yesteryears 8 January 2012 “God’s Acre” Filled With History by Mary Ann Ashcraft A huge, ancient oak tree spreads its branches at the corner of Manchester Cemetery in the heart of the town of Manchester. It must have been there in 1760 when a small log church was built by the early German settlers. Farmsteads [...]