On June 25, 1915, the Blue Mountain Express, bound for Hagerstown, Maryland, hit a Baltimore Limited traveling east from Hagerstown on the railroad bridge west of Thurmont. The reason for the wreck is believed to have been a problem with the telegraph lines so that information about the trains on the tracks didn’t reach the…

This image shows William McGill working with a group of younger students at Philip’s Delight School. He was the teacher and principal at the school, which was the last one-room school in Frederick County. It was located off an old lumber trail surrounded by thick woods on Catoctin Mountain. Before the school closed on February…

Pre AI Retouching Post AI Retouching This is an undated image of Main Street in Graceham looking east. You can see the steeple of the Moravian Church in the distance slightly off to the left. Moravians settled in the Graceham area in the 1740s. Their first building was constructed in 1749, but the church in…