Carroll Yesteryears 27 May 2018 Union Meeting House Served as a Church, Community Hub, Hospital for Nearly a Century By David Bearr On Monday, May 28, American Legion Post 31 will conduct Westminster’s 151st Memorial Day service at the Center Circle in Westminster Cemetery. The annual observance originated there in 1868 in the shadow of the [...]
Carroll Yesteryears 22 April 2018 Imagining Margaretha Newson’s Century of Life By Mary Ann Ashcraft One day in February 1913 Mary Shellman wrote a letter to Taneytown’s Carroll Record newspaper about an event she thought was noteworthy. Writing those kinds of letters had been her custom for years and would continue until she died. Her topic [...]
Carroll Yesteryears 8 April 2018 Two Centuries later, Headstone Engraving Process has Changed, Need for Precision Hasn’t By Mary Ann Ashcraft At Mathias Monuments and Memorials, Dan Long, Jr. carries on a tradition of engraving tombstones that stretches back in Westminster almost two centuries. The techniques used by the first documented local carver have changed dramatically, [...]
Carroll Yesteryears 25 March 2018 The Saga of Centenarian Nancy Saunders, (Part 2 of 3) By W. Peter Pearre and Jeff Duvall In the 1880 census the African American centenarian Nancy Saunders was living with her son George in the Englar’s Mill area of Frederick County. Two years earlier there had been an article in the [...]
Carroll Yesteryears 11 March 2018 The Saga of Centenarian Nancy Saunders, (Part 2 of 3) By W. Peter Pearre and Jeff Duvall In her own lifetime Nancy Saunders was a celebrated African American resident of the Sam’s Creek area when the nation was celebrating the centenary of its independence. Her reported age in 1881 of 114 [...]
Carroll Yesteryears 11 February 2018 Fate of Bowen’s Chapel, Once Grim, Settled as Supporters ‘Just Kept Going’ By Stacy Shaffer The following information will bring “Carroll’s Yesteryears” readers up-to-date on the fate of Bowen’s Chapel, also known as Bark Hill Methodist Church, at the corner of Bark Hill Road and Raywell Avenue on the outskirts of [...]
Carroll Yesteryears 14 January 2018 Take Time to Learn About, Preserve Your Family’s History By Mary Ann Ashcraft What will you do on these cold, dark, winter weekends? They could become an opportunity to nail down some of your family’s history whether you are a Carroll County native or not. Although family get-togethers are most common [...]
Carroll Yesteryears 24 December 2017 Yesteryears Christmas Postcards By Mary Ann Ashcraft These four Christmas postcards are part of a larger collection owned by the Historical Society of Carroll County. They illustrate the range of designs popular in the late 1800s and early 1900s and the sentiments, both humorous and traditional, expressed. Mary Ann Ashcraft is [...]
Carroll Yesteryears 10 December 2017 History of Dennings Begins with Arrival of James Denning Around 1800 By Jeff Duvall At the intersection of Marston and Dennings roads near Taylorsville lies the small community of Dennings. It began with the arrival of James Denning from County Donegal, Ireland, about 1800. On July 1, 1805, in Baltimore County, [...]
Carroll Yesteryears 26 November 2017 A Century Ago, Carroll Dealers Were Selling Cars for $200 to $4,000 By Mary Ann Ashcraft If you are thinking of buying a new or used car this year, you might be interested in the kinds of vehicles sold locally 100 years ago and what they cost. In January 1917, a [...]