Boonsboro Reflections: Boonsboro’s Flag
Boonsboro’s flag was first unfurled in 1975. After Mayor Edward. T. Weaver and town council endorsed the idea of creating a flag for Boonsboro, they turned to Pat Lemkuhl, a faculty member at Boonsboro High School. She organized a flag design contest and Wayne...Boonsboro Reflections: Boonsboro’s Post Office
Benjamin Franklin was appointed first Postmaster General by the Continental Congress in 1775 and only 26 years later, in 1801, a U.S. Post Office opened in the budding town of Boonsboro. Patrick Conn, proprietor of the Eagle Hotel (now, Inn BoonsBoro), became our...Boonsboro Reflections: Boonsboro’s Covered Bridge
Images of covered bridges evoke dreams of slower, simpler times in American history. Over the past 200 years 120 such iconic structures carried traffic over Maryland waterways, but today only 6 survive. Snook’s Creek flows from South Mountain, crossing Alt...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...Find Us on Facebook
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