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Featured Collections
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150th Anniversary of the Civil War - Hagerstown newspapers
This collection will be added to weekly as the Civil War anniversary progresses. It will contain a story per week from the newspapers of Hagerstown, Maryland
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Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
The C&O Canal, 78 miles of which are located in Washington County, provided a variety of employment opportunites and a transportation corridor for the county's produce and minerals from the 1830s to 1924.
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Tableland Trails, Garrett County
Tableland Trails, a history of Garrett and Allegany and neighboring counties in West Virginia and Pennsylvania, was published in the 1950s and 1960s by Felix Robinson.
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Civil War diary of James Francis Beall
James Francis Beall lived in southern Frederick and Montgomery counties during the civil war. His diary records the weather, family happenings and how well his crops were growing. It also records news of the war from the perspective of a southern sympathizer.
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Charles Russell Letters
Charles H. Russell, a Presbyterian minister in Williamsport, MD, led Company I of the 1st Maryland Cavalry in the first two years of the war.
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Battle of Folck's Mill
The Alleganian in 1864 reported a number of Civil War events, the Battle of Monocacy, the burning of Chambersburg, and the Battle of Folck's Mill, near Cumberland; and the passage of the Maryland Constitution, ending slavery in the state.
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Military Lots, Garrett County, 1787
Soldiers who fought in the Revolutionary War were rewarded by the state of Maryland with land "west of Fort Cumberland". The map of "military lots" assigned in 1787 shows the land grants in Garrett County, Maryland.
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Washington County Taxes, 1803-1804
The 1803-1804 Tax records for Washington County, Maryland list the names, land holdings and possessions of those owing taxes. People were taxed on land, silver, stills, farm animals, furniture, carriages and slaves.
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