T h e Y e a r i s…1 9 2 8 by James Rada, Jr. She Wa s the F i r s t L ine in Fire Defense Photo Courtesy of findagrave.com. Alice Willard knew all about struggling to get by. The Foxville resident was a 30-year-old single mother of an 11-year-old son,…

The Year is…1918 by James Rada, Jr. The Pandemic to End All Pandemics — Part 3 Spanish Flu rampaged through Frederick County and the world in the fall of 1918. During October 1918, the State of Maryland shut down public venues and businesses, and those places that could still open had trouble finding healthy workers.…

A Thurmont Family’s Dangerous Ride on the National Road On June 1, 1915, the Brenamans drove their Ford along the National Road, which had passed its first century of service a few years before. The road had improved a lot since the days of it being a graded dirt path, but it was still a…

Note: This is the third of three articles about the wreck of the Blue Mountain Express between Thurmont and Sabillasville in 1915. by James Rada, Jr. On June 25, 1915, the Blue Mountain Express bound for Hagerstown crashed head-on with a mail train coming east from Hagerstown, crumpling the two engines and sending a baggage…

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