Ribbon Cutting: Naganna Exhibits Hall & History Learning Center & Carroll at 250 Exhibit

We hope you can join us for the ribbon cutting and opening of the Naganna Exhibits Hall & History Learning Center and rededication of the Shriver-Weybright Auditorium on Thursday, July 9 at 5 pm. At that time, we will open our new Carroll 250 exhibit, Carroll County at 250: People, Place, and the Making of […]

09 Jul

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

HSCC Campus - Shriver-Weybright Auditorium

210 East Main Street, Westminster, MD 21157

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Carroll 250 Event: Citizen Meets Soldier Presented by Union Mills Homestead

Experience the days surrounding Lee’s Second Invasion of the North, when small towns in Carroll County — including Union Mills — saw the movement of both Union and Confederate Armies, supply wagons, stragglers, and wounded soldiers. Explore encampments, the original structures that witnessed the days around Gettysburg, and historic displays interpreting this period on the […]

18 - 19 Jul

10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Union Mills Homestead

3311 Littlestown Pike, Westminster, MD 21158

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Box Lunch Talk: What the Dickens? A Look at Maryland’s Almshouses and Asylums Presented by Adrienne Smith

Join Adrienne Smith as she discusses Carroll County’s Poor Farm and Springfield Hospital Center as examples of how the State of Maryland cared for its indigent citizens. Adrienne is the curator of the Sykesville Gate House Museum which is run by the Town of Sykesville. After seven years as a middle school social studies teacher, […]

21 Jul

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

HSCC Campus - Shriver-Weybright Auditorium

210 East Main Street, Westminster, MD 21157

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Carroll 250 Event: History Feast Foodways Weekend

Join the Historical Society and other historic sites as we celebrate the 250th Anniversary with a foodways weekend! We hope you can join us for a Revolution in Wine and Tales hosted by Bernie Vogel on Friday, July 24th at 6pm. We are bringing HSCC’s popular wine and food event to the Society’s campus in […]

24 - 27 Jul

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Multiple Locations

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Carroll 250 Event: Braddock’s Tars: The Sailors of the Braddock Expedition

A little known party of thirty-three Royal Navy sailors marched with Braddock’s army in the 1755 expedition to attack Fort Duquesne that ended as a disastrous failure on the banks of the Monongahela. In Braddock’s Tars: Common Sailors and the Braddock Expedition, Kyle Dalton will use their story as a lens to look at the larger […]

28 Jul

6:00 pm - 7:45 pm

North Carroll Branch CCPL

2255 Hanover Pike, Hampstead, MD

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Carroll 250 Speaker Series: 1876 The Centennial Celebration & America’s First World’s Fair

This talk will cover how the USA celebrated the Centennial and the significance of a World’s Fair. Local and Maryland participants in the Philadelphia Exposition (The World’s Fair) will be included and local events held to commemorate 1876 will also be highlighted. This event is being held on the HSCC campus at the Shriver-Weybright Auditorium

13 Aug

6:30 pm - 7:30 pm

HSCC Campus - Shriver-Weybright Auditorium

210 East Main Street, Westminster, MD 21157

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Carroll 250 Event: Katy: The Woman Who Signed the Declaration

One woman, Mary Katharine Goddard, Katy to her family and friends, risked treason by signing her full name on the Declaration of Independence along with all the male signatories. Who was she, and why was she tasked with such an important job? Author Betty Bolte will share how she came to know Katy despite the […]

15 Aug

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Eldersburg Branch CCPL Large Meeting Room

6400 Hemlock Drive, Eldersburg, MD 21784

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Box Lunch Talk: Stories in Cloth: Using Genealogy to Stitch Together the Past Presented by Amy Hunt

Amy will explore the use of genealogy to bring stories to light through cloth. Amy Hunt is the curator of The Museum of Frederick County History at Heritage Frederick.  She has a degree in Art History from the University of Maryland at College Park and has 25 years of experience curating museum exhibitions.  She is […]

18 Aug

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

HSCC Campus - Shriver-Weybright Auditorium

210 East Main Street, Westminster, MD 21157

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Box Lunch Talk: The Story of the Carroll County African American Museum presented by Former Students & Friends of Robert Moton High School

The Former Students and Friends of Robert Moton High School will tell the story of how they brought the Carroll County African American Museum to the county and give an update on its progress. As always, there is no registration for Box Lunch Talks. You bring your lunch, and we provide the drinks and desserts […]

15 Sep

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

HSCC Campus - Shriver-Weybright Auditorium

210 East Main Street, Westminster, MD 21157

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Box Lunch Talk: The Greek Families of Westminster Presented by Antigoni Ladd

Meet the Greek families who settled in Westminster in the early 1900s through the 1950s. They came from different areas of Greece, Cyprus, and Turkey, but they formed a strong community that supported one another through the Great Depression and the staff shortages of WWII. They helped one another establish a variety of businesses including hat-making, […]

20 Oct

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Grace Lutheran Church

21 Carroll St, Westminster, MD 21157

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Carroll 250 Speaker Series: October 19, 1774 – The Annapolis Tea Party (The Burning of the Brig Peggy Stewart)

The Burning of the Peggy Stewart was one of most pivotal Maryland events that spurred our state closer to the American Revolution. Hear how Mordecai Gist, elder brother of famed Carroll County community leader Colonel Joshua Gist, headed a contingent from Baltimore City to demand the ill-fated cargo of tea on the Peggy Stewart be […]

26 Oct

6:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Exploration Commons

50 East Main Street Westminster, MD 21157 United States

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Box Lunch Talk: Church of the Brethren: Beliefs, Practices, and Customs Presented by Reverend Dr. James Benedict

The Church of the Brethren [known officially as the German Baptists before 1908, and unofficially as Dunkers] first came to Maryland and what would become Carroll County in the mid-18th century.  Brethren families, congregations, and institutions have played important roles in the county.  This presentation will focus on Brethren beliefs, practices, and customs, as well […]

17 Nov

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

HSCC Campus - Shriver-Weybright Auditorium

210 East Main Street, Westminster, MD 21157

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