Carroll Yesteryears 28 February 2016 Snowden Detailed Life as a Slave After Buying His Freedom By Mary Ann Ashcraft Nineteenth-century American history only recognizes a few African Americans as outstanding role models—people like Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and George Washington Carver. Carroll County’s John Baptist Snowden may not rank with those named above, [...]
Carroll Yesteryears 14 February 2016 Brick Making in Carroll County By Mary Ann Ashcraft You might become suspicious when looking at the large number of old brick buildings in Carroll County that someone local must have had a clay pit and produced bricks. Sure enough, an article entitled “Brickmaking in Westminster” appeared in the Democratic Advocate [...]
Carroll Yesteryears 24 January 2016 More Stories From Near the Border By Mary Ann Ashcraft Two weeks ago, “Carroll’s Yesteryears” left the local men of Company H, First Regiment, Maryland National Guard, at Eagle Pass, Texas, along the Rio Grande in July 1916. Their mission was to “put a stop to the deeds of pillage and [...]
Carroll Yesteryears 10 January 2016 Carroll Residents Played a Role in Mexico’s 1916 Political Turmoil By Mary Ann Ashcraft One hundred years ago, the U.S. was successfully avoiding involvement in the bloody war raging across Europe, but it had a reason to send troops to its border with Mexico. Approximately 100 Carroll County men, members of [...]