Boonsboro Reflections: Merger of Republican Club & Wash Co Free Library
In 1904, the Republican Club and Washington County Free Library collections were joined. The Hagerstown Daily Mail in March 1904 reported the organization of the Boonsboro Library Association. In her annual report of that year, Miss Mary Titcomb stated that the people...Boonsboro Reflections: Library Delivered Books to Communities
The Washington County Free Library opened in Hagerstown on August 27, 1901 and the first librarian, Mary Titcomb, was determined that it would truly serve all of Washington County. She was unusually creative in finding ways to make the library collection widely...Boonsboro Reflections: Boonsboro’s First Library
On July 21, 1900, Major Josiah Pierce Jr., son-in-law of Mrs. Dahlgren of South Mountain House, organized the Republican Club of Boonsboro. He felt that the town should have a club, which, in addition to a political agenda, should have daily newspapers, periodicals...Boonsboro Reflections: Isabel S. Mason’s poem “The First Washington Monument”
The Daughters of the American Revolution collaborated with Harvey Bomberger in his efforts to restore the collapsing Washington Monument during the 1920’s and ‘30’s, difficult years of stock market collapse and the Great Depression. Isabel S. Mason wrote an...Boonsboro Reflections: Civic Pride – Maintaining the Washington Monument
For 190 years, our Monument has endured the relentless pull of gravity, weather extremes, lightening strikes, souvenir collectors and vandalism. A curious rumor circulates that an indignant father suspected his daughters of meeting their suitors at the Monument and,...BOONSBORO REFLECTIONS: Construction of the Washington Monument
It must have been a remarkable sight – on the morning of July 4, 1827 as many as 500 citizens of Boonsboro and nearby communities assembled on the town square at 7:00 am and, headed by the stars and stripes and a fife and drum corps, marched to an area called...BOONSBORO REFLECTIONS: Crystal Grottoes
Crystal Grottoes, the only commercial cave now open in Maryland, is also one of the largest in the state. Nearly one half mile of passage was mapped in 1968. The cave was discovered in 1920 as a result of quarry operations for road material. A drill bit (for placing...BOONSBORO REFLECTIONS: Dr. Peter Fahrney’s Legacy
Dr. Peter Fahrney was born in Lancaster, PA in 1767, orphaned by age two and raised by neighboring families. He learned the trade of a tanner and, together with his wife Eve (Durnbaugh) Fahrney, had 4 children. Sadly, his wife died when their oldest child was only...BOONSBORO REFLECTIONS: The Storied Past of Inn BoonsBoro
There were only five houses in Boonsboro in 1796: Peter Conn’s Eagle Hotel, a structure on the site of 44 N. Main St. that may have been William Boone’s store, Jacob Craig’s house next to the hotel (now the bakery at 7 North Main St.), Mrs. Short’s log-built store...Find Us on Facebook
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