Carroll Yesteryears 23 February 2014 Recent Weather Recalls 1902 Ice Storm By Mary Ann Ashcraft You might think Carroll County had never experienced an ice storm quite as nasty as the one we had this year on February 4-5, but it did. The photo accompanying this column captured the havoc wreaked by a storm which hit [...]
Carroll Yesteryears 9 February 2014 Civil War Document Demands Closer Look By Frank J. Batavick Much is made of President Abraham Lincoln’s signing of the landmark Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, but many would be surprised by some of the important details of this executive order. First, though it declared that all slaves “shall be [...]
Carroll Yesteryears 26 January 2014 Look Back with the Engine of Liberty By Mary Ann Ashcraft The Historical Society of Carroll County recently republished a fascinating little book entitled “Abstracts from the Engine of Liberty and Uniontown Advertiser 1813-1815.” Editor Joe Getty combed copies of that early newspaper printed in Uniontown (then part of Frederick County) [...]
Carroll Yesteryears 12 January 2014 Everyone Pitched in During Butchering Time By John H. Foertschbeck, Sr. Cold, frosty mornings, the smell of wood fires, squealing pigs and people hustling about - yep, it was butchering time! Butchering was both a work and social event for family, friends, and neighbors. Families picked a time between Thanksgiving and [...]