Blog Posts
Box Lunch Talk: The Bella Rose & Dianthus Bobby
In 1933, Italian immigrants Pasquale and Lena Donofrio opened Carroll Gardens in Westminster. Over the next 50 years their business developed well-known hybrid plants and became nationally known. Their son, John, became [...]
Box Lunch Talk: Empire’s Eagles
Thomas E. Crocker discusses his book Empire' Eagles.
Virtual Exhibit for Rural Free Delivery
To go along with our 7th Annual Gala on Getting The Message we want to share the history of Rural Free Delivery Service in Carroll County. We would like to invite you to view [...]
Box Lunch Talk: Rural Free Delivery Service
100 years ago in The Baltimore Sun: August 8, 1899: WESTMINSTER, MD., Aug.7. — The experiment of free mail service in the rural districts of Carroll County, begun April 3, has proved successful [...]
Happy Juneteenth
Juneteenth celebrates June 19, 1865, as the day when freedom was granted to over 250,000 slaves in Texas. On June 18, 1865 Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas with 2,000 federal troops. This [...]
Box Lunch Talk: the Manchester Historical Center
Originally opened in 1989, the Manchester Historical Center moved to its new, expanded location in 2018. Volunteers Betty Smith and Belva Lamotte provide highlights from the town’s history, share the history of the [...]
the Hurwitz Brothers World War II
In honor of Memorial Day.
The 1918 Spanish Flu in Carroll County
Board Member, Frank Batavick, discusses how the 1918 Spanish influenza rapidly became a worldwide pandemic – beginning with his five-year old father’s personal experience. The Spanish flu was severe; more than 50 million [...]
Remembrance gathering for Townsend Cook
Lynching victim Townsend Cook will be memorialized on June 2, 2021 at 7:00PM, the date of his killing in 1885 in Westminster. The remembrance gathering has been planned by the Carroll County Coalition of the [...]
Box Lunch Talk: Introduction to the Westminster Historic District Commission & Local Tax Credits for Historic Structures
Virtual Box Lunch Talk May 18, 2021: Introduction to the Westminster Historic Distric Commission & Local Tax Credits for Historic Structures, Kristen McMasters, Interim Executive Director at the Historical Society of Carroll County, [...]
Box Lunch Talk: The Carroll County Almshouse From Beginning to End
Box Lunch Talk April 2021: The Carroll County Almshouse From Beginning to End 112 Years of Caring
Carroll County was the Haudenosaunee Nation – the “Six Nations”
Before 1744, the predominant government in Carroll County was the Haudenosaunee Nation – the “Six Nations.” The Haudenosaunee played a key role in the evolution of American democracy. Much of our current way [...]
Box Lunch Talk: Amidst the Mischief and Misery: the Story of Three Famous Civil War Caregivers
Recently, Civil War scholars have finally begun revealing in detail how our colossal American tragedy turned the nation into a “Republic of Suffering.” Burt Kummerow, director of Maryland’s Four Centuries Project, discusses three [...]
Box Lunch Talk: African American Soldiers and Sailors in the Civil War
Historical Society of Carroll County Box Lunch Talk. African American Soldiers and Sailors in the Civil War. Carroll County contributed a large number of its free and enslaved African American men to fight [...]
Christmas Cards
Well into the 19th century, the tradition was to write lengthy holiday letters and deliver them to friends. Since there were no copiers or home printers, each letter had to be handwritten – a very [...]
“Christmas Eve 1886” Poem
The Historical Society of Carroll County (HSCC) has produced a video that salutes a poem written more than 130 years ago. The author, Louis Edwin Shriver of Union Mills, dedicated the verses to [...]
“Christmas Eve 1886” Poem
The Historical Society of Carroll County (HSCC) has produced a video that salutes a poem written more than 130 years ago. The author, Louis Edwin Shriver of Union Mills, dedicated the verses [...]
Happy Thanksgiving!
For Americans, the Thanksgiving holiday is usually traced to a celebration at Plymouth, in present-day Massachusetts. In 1620, a group of English settlers crossed the ocean to create a new colony in North America. They [...]
Box Lunch Talk: The 1936 Olympic Games, aka “The Nazi Games”
Presented by: Alex Ober. This presentation takes a look back at the 1936 August Olympics in Berlin. Alex’s talk will be a PowerPoint presentation featuring photographs from the 1936 Olympic Games. The Olympic [...]
William Winchester Portrait Conservation
While we associate paintings with art museums, most history museums also have them. These are usually family portraits or works by local artists. HSCC has both. But, while paintings are common, they are uncommonly difficult [...]
Carroll County’s Talks at the Tavern – The Panic Broadcast
The Historical Society of Carroll County's Talks at the Tavern - The Panic Broadcast. Join Frank Batavick as he plays excerpts of the historic H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds radio program and [...]
Past Times for Children: Native Americans in Maryland Pt 1: Villages, Trade, Trade Routes and more!
Jill Schultz, Historical Society Board Member and Education Committee Chair, presents on the Native Americans in Maryland. Focusing on the Susquehannocks, former Carroll County Public School teacher, Jill Schultz details villages, trade and [...]