The Boonsboro Historical Society received this little gem recently from the family of Donald Young. Most of us walk by our town’s WWI Memorial without thinking much about it, but in 1919, the Town of Boonsboro was busy welcoming home its heroes from a world war...
Charles Robert Swain was born May 23, 1926 on what was then called Church Street, now Potomac Street, in Boonsboro, MD. His family lived in a few houses around town, including next to the old schoolhouse on Potomac Street until he was a teenager at which time they...
April 19, 2018 – James Lee Bowers (also known as “Bill”) was born May 30, 1926 at home in Yarrowsburg, Maryland, just down the road from Boonsboro. He lived there until 1966 when he moved to S. Main Street in Boonsboro, where lived until his death...
This interview was conducted as part of a series created by Kai Fairhall (an 8th grader at the time of the interviews) as part of an Eagle Scout project he undertook with cooperation from the Clopper-Michael American Legion Post 10 here in Boonsboro. To see more in...
Scroll Down to Listen to the Interview Excerpts Douglas Garns Bast is a local legend. Born to a locally significant family, Doug has lived in Boonsboro all his life and has been collecting and documenting its history since he was a boy. He is an expert on the history...
Scroll down to listen to interview excerpts Sara Ann (Zimmerman) Sweeney of Boonsboro was born March 3, 1941 to Jean Smith (Shank) and Alfred Cook Zimmerman. At the time, her family lived at 27 N. Main Street (next to Pete’s Barbershop) in a home owned by Dr....