Boonsboro Reflections: Maryland Settlers

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...

Pass It On – Edgar Green – Boonsboro Farm Life

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...