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, [...]