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Find More Than Ag History at the
Thurmont Center for Agricultural
History
James Rada, Jr.
While the design of the Thurmont archives, Maryland State Grange
Regional Library was inspired by the records, and many more. There are
Catoctin Furnace, when you walk into also private collections that have been
the Thurmont Center for Agricultural donated to the room.
History, you’ll see a different
inspiration. Two windows from old “You’ll see people using the
Moravian Church that had been on room to find information regarding
Water Street in the late nineteenth the history of family farms,” said
Century, hang from one wall. On Mannix.
another wall hangs a grange mural
painted in the 1960s by Elizabeth The center also has local history,
Holter Howard. genealogy information, and microfilm
copies of newspapers.
Tucked away in one corner of
the library, the Thurmont Center for “People searching for the
Agricultural History’s collections genealogy are probably the ones who
continue to grow. use the room the most,” stated Dingle.
“We are saving stuff for the future, The center’s basic core genealogy
when people start wondering more resources can help a person trying
about the farms that used to be in to track down family members from
the county and how they operated,” Northern Frederick County.
said Thurmont Library Manager Erin
Dingle. Researchers can also find
information about the area by
Mary Mannix, manager of the searching through the Emmitsburg
Maryland Room at the C. Burr Artz Chronicle, Catoctin Enterprise, and
Library in Frederick, said that the idea Catoctin Clarion on microfilm. There
for an agricultural history room first is also a small collection of local
took root about seventeen years ago, history books about the area.
when the Maryland Room obtained
its first major agriculture-related “As agriculture continues to vanish
collection: a set of annual reports from the area, I think more people
from the county extension agent. will use the center as they want to find
There wasn’t room at the old library out more about agriculture history,”
for the collections, so it remained at Mannix said.
the Maryland room until the new
library was built. The Thurmont Center for
Agricultural History has the same
“We’ve been trying to collect hours as the library: 10:00 a.m.-8:00
primary and secondary information p.m., Monday through Thursday;
of the agricultural history and culture 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Friday and
in Frederick County,” Mannix said. Saturday; and 1:00-5:00 p.m. on
“A lot of it relates the county granges, Sunday. To access the center, check
which as a social organization have in with the librarian at the reference
been a large part of agriculture in desk. If you will need research help,
Maryland and the nation from post- you may want to call ahead to make
Civil War to the mid-twentieth century. sure a librarian will be available to
help you.
Besides the extension agent reports,
the room also has the Pomona If you can’t make it to the center,
Grange archives, extension service research requests are accepted at no
publications, Jefferson Grange charge, except for photocopies at
$.20 per copy. Submit the request, in
writing, with as much information as
possible to Erin Dingle.
Find More Than Ag History at the
Thurmont Center for Agricultural
History
James Rada, Jr.
While the design of the Thurmont archives, Maryland State Grange
Regional Library was inspired by the records, and many more. There are
Catoctin Furnace, when you walk into also private collections that have been
the Thurmont Center for Agricultural donated to the room.
History, you’ll see a different
inspiration. Two windows from old “You’ll see people using the
Moravian Church that had been on room to find information regarding
Water Street in the late nineteenth the history of family farms,” said
Century, hang from one wall. On Mannix.
another wall hangs a grange mural
painted in the 1960s by Elizabeth The center also has local history,
Holter Howard. genealogy information, and microfilm
copies of newspapers.
Tucked away in one corner of
the library, the Thurmont Center for “People searching for the
Agricultural History’s collections genealogy are probably the ones who
continue to grow. use the room the most,” stated Dingle.
“We are saving stuff for the future, The center’s basic core genealogy
when people start wondering more resources can help a person trying
about the farms that used to be in to track down family members from
the county and how they operated,” Northern Frederick County.
said Thurmont Library Manager Erin
Dingle. Researchers can also find
information about the area by
Mary Mannix, manager of the searching through the Emmitsburg
Maryland Room at the C. Burr Artz Chronicle, Catoctin Enterprise, and
Library in Frederick, said that the idea Catoctin Clarion on microfilm. There
for an agricultural history room first is also a small collection of local
took root about seventeen years ago, history books about the area.
when the Maryland Room obtained
its first major agriculture-related “As agriculture continues to vanish
collection: a set of annual reports from the area, I think more people
from the county extension agent. will use the center as they want to find
There wasn’t room at the old library out more about agriculture history,”
for the collections, so it remained at Mannix said.
the Maryland room until the new
library was built. The Thurmont Center for
Agricultural History has the same
“We’ve been trying to collect hours as the library: 10:00 a.m.-8:00
primary and secondary information p.m., Monday through Thursday;
of the agricultural history and culture 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Friday and
in Frederick County,” Mannix said. Saturday; and 1:00-5:00 p.m. on
“A lot of it relates the county granges, Sunday. To access the center, check
which as a social organization have in with the librarian at the reference
been a large part of agriculture in desk. If you will need research help,
Maryland and the nation from post- you may want to call ahead to make
Civil War to the mid-twentieth century. sure a librarian will be available to
help you.
Besides the extension agent reports,
the room also has the Pomona If you can’t make it to the center,
Grange archives, extension service research requests are accepted at no
publications, Jefferson Grange charge, except for photocopies at
$.20 per copy. Submit the request, in
writing, with as much information as
possible to Erin Dingle.
