Boonsboro Reflections: Keeping the Peace in Boonsboro

Elected sheriffs have been enforcing the law in Washington County since 1777, fifteen years before Boonsboro was founded.  Since then, 79 individuals have been elected Washington County Sheriff, confronting all manner of criminal disturbances and, until 1835, serving...

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: 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...