Boonsboro Reflections: Boonsboro’s First Physicians

The early settlers of Boonsboro and the surrounding areas faced the risk of injury and disease without the benefit of modern medicine.  Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur first established the germ theory of disease in 1870, 82 years after the founding of Boonsboro.   And...

Boonsboro Reflections: The Boonsboro Trolley

Thousands of years ago, what is now Boonsboro’s Main Street was a trail used by Eastern elk, woodland bison, deer and timber wolves as they ranged about the, yet undiscovered, New World.  Native Americans would later follow the same route.  Since the colonization of...

Boonsboro Reflections: The Roaring Twenties

Congress ratified the 18th Amendment on January 19, 1919, banning the manufacture, sale and transport of alcoholic beverages. But underground distilleries and saloons supplied bootlegged liquor to an abundant clientele, while organized criminal gangs fought to control...

Boonsboro Reflections: The Boonsboro Cemetery

In 1810, Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church and Trinity Reformed Church (Church of Christ) joined together to consecrate a church building called the Salem Church on Potomac Street. Both congregations used the building for services and the surrounding land for...

Boonsboro Reflections: Dahlgren Chapel

As pioneers traveling to the western frontier passed through Turners Gap in the South Mountain range, they found rest and refreshment at an establishment now known as the Old South Mountain Inn.   In 1876, just 14 years after the Battle of South Mountain erupted at...