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...Find Us on Facebook
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