Attracting Settlers to the Maryland Frontier… Charles Calvert, the 5th Lord Baltimore, was a British nobleman and Proprietary Governor of the Province of Maryland. Settlement in western Maryland was slow, so in 1732 he developed a plan to “increase the number...
Edgar Green, born in 1912, grew up on a farm just outside of Boonsboro. His daughter, Luana, reads an account of his memories of farm life in the early -1900s. Hog butchering, neighbors helping neighbors, and more. Listen by clicking the track below. On an iPad? If...