The Tragic Drowning of Mary Finnefrock on Lake Royer
Precipitated by a Fatal Prank in 1901 Earl Eyler On a pleasant summer morning, August 18, 1901, Mary Finnefrock, with her companion, Mrs. Lewis Wecker, boarded an excursion train at York, Pennsylvania, bound for a day of fun and relaxation at the celebrated Pen Mar Park, not aware it would be the last day of…
The Lake View Hotel
Joan Bittner Fry The Lake View Hotel, C. J. Remsburg, Proprietor, Lewistown, Maryland, Long Distance Phone 840-2 While looking through my postcard collection, I came upon a small brochure about Lake View Hotel, and I quote the brochure: “Lake View Hotel is located midway between Frederick and Thurmont, Maryland on the Western Maryland and the…
Motor Lodges
Joan Fry On my way to Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, last week, I noticed demolition work at the foot of Sunshine Trail. What was left of Red Run Cabins was being turned into rubble. According to an article in The Record Herald in 2005, the Red Run Lodge was built of chestnut in 1940, and cabins were…
looking back - 1933
by James Rada, Jr. Bessie Darling’s Murder Haunts Us Still When the mail train from Baltimore stopped in Thurmont on Halloween, more than the mail was delivered. George F. Schultz, a sixty-two-year-old employee with Maryland Health Department, left the train. Schultz hired Clarence Lidie and his taxi to give him a ride to the Valley…
