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• 19:28, 25 February 2023 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Potomac River Frozen 2018.jpeg (Frozen Potomac River in early 2018. This photo was taken from the bridge on the Virginia side by the trailer cabins behind the gas station. (Photo from The Brunswick Citizen) Category:Smoketown Potomac River and C&O Canal)
• 19:28, 25 February 2023 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Potomac River Frozen 2018.jpeg (Frozen Potomac River in early 2018. This photo was taken from the bridge on the Virginia side by the trailer cabins behind the gas station. (Photo from The Brunswick Citizen) Category:Smoketown Potomac River and C&O Canal)
• 19:27, 25 February 2023 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Gross House Central Avenue.jpeg (The Gross House on 304 Central Avenue in October, 2022. Longtime businessman and Judge William B. Gross with his wife Thelma, who taught 5th Grade up the hill at Brunswick Elementary School, raised their children here after moving from the family home next to the Gross store on S. Maryland Avenue. According to public records, the primary structure was built in 1956. It remained in the family until 2000 when it was sold by John L. Gross. (Photo by Peter Wenner) [[Category:Smoketown In and A...)
• 19:27, 25 February 2023 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Gross House Central Avenue.jpeg (The Gross House on 304 Central Avenue in October, 2022. Longtime businessman and Judge William B. Gross with his wife Thelma, who taught 5th Grade up the hill at Brunswick Elementary School, raised their children here after moving from the family home next to the Gross store on S. Maryland Avenue. According to public records, the primary structure was built in 1956. It remained in the family until 2000 when it was sold by John L. Gross. (Photo by Peter Wenner) [[Category:Smoketown In and A...)
• 19:24, 25 February 2023 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Mrs. Bennett 5th Grade Class 1970-71.JPG (Mrs. Bennett's 5th grade class during the 1970-71 school year. Here's who has been identified: Back row: Candy Free, David Kemp, Bernie Lipscomb, Steve Rowe, James Herbert, Sherri Sigler, Pat Campbell, Tammy Webber, Robin Hoopengardner, Nancy Childs, Sherry Mohler Middle row: Jeff Webber, Sandy Deener, Karen Roelkey, Peggy Ketterman, Roy Lipscomb, Jerry Thomas, Tammy Brawner, Cynthia Mann, Doug Bohrer, Kathy Robinson, Dennis Wenner Front row: Mitch McMurry, Eddie Weddle, Vicky Flook, Debbi...)
• 19:24, 25 February 2023 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Mrs. Bennett 5th Grade Class 1970-71.JPG (Mrs. Bennett's 5th grade class during the 1970-71 school year. Here's who has been identified: Back row: Candy Free, David Kemp, Bernie Lipscomb, Steve Rowe, James Herbert, Sherri Sigler, Pat Campbell, Tammy Webber, Robin Hoopengardner, Nancy Childs, Sherry Mohler Middle row: Jeff Webber, Sandy Deener, Karen Roelkey, Peggy Ketterman, Roy Lipscomb, Jerry Thomas, Tammy Brawner, Cynthia Mann, Doug Bohrer, Kathy Robinson, Dennis Wenner Front row: Mitch McMurry, Eddie Weddle, Vicky Flook, Debbi...)
• 19:19, 25 February 2023 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:BHS Class of 1938 Reunion.JPG (BHS Class of 1938 gathered at their 50th reunion in 1988. Mrs. Wheatley identified the members of her class, as follows: Front row - Dorothy Dixon, Frances Burch, Emma Copeland, Patricia O'Hara, Anna Betty Weedy, Ethel Wenner Middle row - Evelyn Grams, Pearl Ambrose, Margaret Roelke, Lorraine Kronk, Anna Ray Suter, Geraldine Sherrard, Katherine Ahalt, Clara Garrison, Eloise Michael, Jane Nelson, Theda Norris, Ina Mae Kline, Gloria Cornelius, Mary Louise Chambers, Ella Hissey Back row - War...)
• 19:19, 25 February 2023 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:BHS Class of 1938 Reunion.JPG (BHS Class of 1938 gathered at their 50th reunion in 1988. Mrs. Wheatley identified the members of her class, as follows: Front row - Dorothy Dixon, Frances Burch, Emma Copeland, Patricia O'Hara, Anna Betty Weedy, Ethel Wenner Middle row - Evelyn Grams, Pearl Ambrose, Margaret Roelke, Lorraine Kronk, Anna Ray Suter, Geraldine Sherrard, Katherine Ahalt, Clara Garrison, Eloise Michael, Jane Nelson, Theda Norris, Ina Mae Kline, Gloria Cornelius, Mary Louise Chambers, Ella Hissey Back row - War...)
• 19:17, 25 February 2023 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:F&M Bank Women Staffers.jpg (A group photo of women staffers from the old Farmers & Mechanics Bank in 1973 before the new branch was built in the latter part of the decade. Posed here behind Hazel Bartlett are Jo Ann Thompson, Ethel Strailman, Diane Wiggington (Dawson), Mary Catherine Moore and Dorothy Moss. (From the Myer Kaplon photo collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown Businesses)
• 19:17, 25 February 2023 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:F&M Bank Women Staffers.jpg (A group photo of women staffers from the old Farmers & Mechanics Bank in 1973 before the new branch was built in the latter part of the decade. Posed here behind Hazel Bartlett are Jo Ann Thompson, Ethel Strailman, Diane Wiggington (Dawson), Mary Catherine Moore and Dorothy Moss. (From the Myer Kaplon photo collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown Businesses)
• 19:11, 25 February 2023 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Brooks Family 4 Generations.jpg (A 1970s era Brooks family photo representing 4 generations with Rosie Brooks Campbell, her father Frank, daughter Kimberly and Grandma Mary Pauline Brooks. Mrs. Brooks lived to the ripe age of 106 and was for a time Maryland's oldest citizen. (From the Myer Kaplon Photo Collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown African American Heritage)
• 19:11, 25 February 2023 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Brooks Family 4 Generations.jpg (A 1970s era Brooks family photo representing 4 generations with Rosie Brooks Campbell, her father Frank, daughter Kimberly and Grandma Mary Pauline Brooks. Mrs. Brooks lived to the ripe age of 106 and was for a time Maryland's oldest citizen. (From the Myer Kaplon Photo Collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown African American Heritage)
• 19:08, 25 February 2023 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Charles Compher.jpg (The gentleman on the left was Mr. Charles Compher, who at the time lived with his daughter Evelyn Compher Donovan on West B Street. The man on the right is unidentified. Mr. Compher had been a Lovettsville farmer and passed away in 1978 just shy of his 102nd birthday. The farm is now known as “Hiddencroft Vinyards”. The photo was likely taken in the mid-1970s. (From the Myer Kaplon photo collection courtesy of the Brunswick Heritage Museum) Category:Smoketown People)
• 19:08, 25 February 2023 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Charles Compher.jpg (The gentleman on the left was Mr. Charles Compher, who at the time lived with his daughter Evelyn Compher Donovan on West B Street. The man on the right is unidentified. Mr. Compher had been a Lovettsville farmer and passed away in 1978 just shy of his 102nd birthday. The farm is now known as “Hiddencroft Vinyards”. The photo was likely taken in the mid-1970s. (From the Myer Kaplon photo collection courtesy of the Brunswick Heritage Museum) Category:Smoketown People)
• 19:07, 25 February 2023 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Barger Dry Cleaning.jpeg (Charles A. Barger Jr. operated the first modern steam press in Brunswick at Barger Dry Cleaning, located in a small building on East Potomac Street. Here he is in an October 1918 photo showing off the press. Note the advertisement on the right for Piedmont Cigarettes. (Photo courtesy of the City of Brunswick Maryland History Commission; information from "Images of America: Brunswick" by Mary Rubin) Category:Smoketown Businesses)
• 19:07, 25 February 2023 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Barger Dry Cleaning.jpeg (Charles A. Barger Jr. operated the first modern steam press in Brunswick at Barger Dry Cleaning, located in a small building on East Potomac Street. Here he is in an October 1918 photo showing off the press. Note the advertisement on the right for Piedmont Cigarettes. (Photo courtesy of the City of Brunswick Maryland History Commission; information from "Images of America: Brunswick" by Mary Rubin) Category:Smoketown Businesses)
• 19:05, 25 February 2023 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Van Pelts Hilltop House.jpeg (Mr. and Mrs. Mark B. Van Pelt of Brunswick pose high above the Harper's Ferry Tunnel, bridge and river sometome in the 1920s. M.B. Van Pelt was later promoted from Terminal Train Master in Brunswick to Terminal Superintendent in Philadelphia in 1945. Mrs. Van Pelt was the former Edith Olivia Wenner, daughter of C.M. Wenner. The Van Pelts lived at 10 5th Avenue in Brunswick before the promotion. The building behind them. has been identified to have been the Hilltop House Annex. The Van Pel...)
• 19:05, 25 February 2023 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Van Pelts Hilltop House.jpeg (Mr. and Mrs. Mark B. Van Pelt of Brunswick pose high above the Harper's Ferry Tunnel, bridge and river sometome in the 1920s. M.B. Van Pelt was later promoted from Terminal Train Master in Brunswick to Terminal Superintendent in Philadelphia in 1945. Mrs. Van Pelt was the former Edith Olivia Wenner, daughter of C.M. Wenner. The Van Pelts lived at 10 5th Avenue in Brunswick before the promotion. The building behind them. has been identified to have been the Hilltop House Annex. The Van Pel...)
• 18:54, 16 January 2023 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Slave Quarters Oakland.jpeg (This is the tiny slave quarters on the old Oakland Estate, now Crown Rose Estate, on Route 180 in Petersville. The Frederick County historic registry for the property lists this as a spring house that was built in the mid-19th century and that "there is evidence it likely served as a residential slave quarters." It may be the oldest structure on the property--see pages #3-4. https://frederickcountymd.gov/.../04-02-311-Listing-on... (Photo by Peter Wenner) [[Category:Smoketown African Ameri...)
• 18:54, 16 January 2023 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Slave Quarters Oakland.jpeg (This is the tiny slave quarters on the old Oakland Estate, now Crown Rose Estate, on Route 180 in Petersville. The Frederick County historic registry for the property lists this as a spring house that was built in the mid-19th century and that "there is evidence it likely served as a residential slave quarters." It may be the oldest structure on the property--see pages #3-4. https://frederickcountymd.gov/.../04-02-311-Listing-on... (Photo by Peter Wenner) [[Category:Smoketown African Ameri...)
• 18:52, 16 January 2023 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Miss Carter's Class 1963-64.jpg (Miss Peggy Carter's 6th grade class at Brunswick Elementary School during the 1963-64 school year. These kids were eventually members of BHS Class of 1970. Miss Carter noted that her nephew Keith Carter was in this class. 1st row ... Denny Connor, Debbie Blosser, Teresa Harris, Ricky Dawson, Larry King, Tony Barnhouse, Judy Payne, Melinda Harwood ??, ?? 2nd row ... Marcia Rhoderick, ? , Brenda can't remember her last name, ? , Patti Powers, Harold Tomlin, Billy Myers, ? , Keith Carter, Paul...)
• 18:52, 16 January 2023 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Miss Carter's Class 1963-64.jpg (Miss Peggy Carter's 6th grade class at Brunswick Elementary School during the 1963-64 school year. These kids were eventually members of BHS Class of 1970. Miss Carter noted that her nephew Keith Carter was in this class. 1st row ... Denny Connor, Debbie Blosser, Teresa Harris, Ricky Dawson, Larry King, Tony Barnhouse, Judy Payne, Melinda Harwood ??, ?? 2nd row ... Marcia Rhoderick, ? , Brenda can't remember her last name, ? , Patti Powers, Harold Tomlin, Billy Myers, ? , Keith Carter, Paul...)
• 18:44, 16 January 2023 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Kaplon's Window Reflection Buick.jpeg (Abstract photo of a Kaplon's display window in the mid-'50s with a Buick and the Shell station in the reflection. Myer Kaplon once wrote that he was in charge of the window displays, and you can see his photos among other items, but the moving force was his sister Fanny. Please feel free to share your memories of the Kaplon's store windows. They were reportedly fantastic in the Christmas season. (From the Myer Kaplon photo collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Pub...)
• 18:44, 16 January 2023 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Kaplon's Window Reflection Buick.jpeg (Abstract photo of a Kaplon's display window in the mid-'50s with a Buick and the Shell station in the reflection. Myer Kaplon once wrote that he was in charge of the window displays, and you can see his photos among other items, but the moving force was his sister Fanny. Please feel free to share your memories of the Kaplon's store windows. They were reportedly fantastic in the Christmas season. (From the Myer Kaplon photo collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Pub...)
• 18:41, 16 January 2023 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Russell McMurry PO.jpeg (Russell McMurry sorts the mail at the old post office on E. Potomac Street across from the YMCA sometime in the 1950s. The current post office was dedicated in October 1958. (From the Myer Kaplon photo collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown Businesses)
• 18:41, 16 January 2023 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Russell McMurry PO.jpeg (Russell McMurry sorts the mail at the old post office on E. Potomac Street across from the YMCA sometime in the 1950s. The current post office was dedicated in October 1958. (From the Myer Kaplon photo collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown Businesses)
• 18:39, 16 January 2023 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Peoples National Bank Xmas Ad.jpg (A 1964 Blade-Times ad for Peoples Bank next to the bridge. By this time, the bank location known as Peoples Bank in Brunswick had been absorbed by Farmers and Mechanics National Bank. (Courtesy of Kim Myers) Category:Smoketown Christmas)
• 18:39, 16 January 2023 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Peoples National Bank Xmas Ad.jpg (A 1964 Blade-Times ad for Peoples Bank next to the bridge. By this time, the bank location known as Peoples Bank in Brunswick had been absorbed by Farmers and Mechanics National Bank. (Courtesy of Kim Myers) Category:Smoketown Christmas)
• 18:38, 16 January 2023 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Paynes Pharmacy 1964.jpg (Blade-Times downtown advertising for Payne's Pharmacy in the first block of W. Potomac Street. The business was located up the hill from the square corner on the north side next door to the Bank of Brunswick, now City Hall. According to Norm Cornelius, "The business was right where the Bike Shop now sits. Mr. Harry Payne, when not working was an avid Flyer, owning his own C172 which he kept tied down at the Frederick Municipal Airport. Harry lived on Rte180 next to the Hawaiian Night Club…...)
• 18:38, 16 January 2023 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Paynes Pharmacy 1964.jpg (Blade-Times downtown advertising for Payne's Pharmacy in the first block of W. Potomac Street. The business was located up the hill from the square corner on the north side next door to the Bank of Brunswick, now City Hall. According to Norm Cornelius, "The business was right where the Bike Shop now sits. Mr. Harry Payne, when not working was an avid Flyer, owning his own C172 which he kept tied down at the Frederick Municipal Airport. Harry lived on Rte180 next to the Hawaiian Night Club…...)
• 18:36, 16 January 2023 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Karn Xmas adf.jpg (Christmas wishes from J.P. Karn, the place to go in Brunswick for lumber and other building supplies for something like 80 years. (Courtesy of Kim Myers) Category:Smoketown Christmas)
• 18:36, 16 January 2023 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Karn Xmas adf.jpg (Christmas wishes from J.P. Karn, the place to go in Brunswick for lumber and other building supplies for something like 80 years. (Courtesy of Kim Myers) Category:Smoketown Christmas)
• 18:35, 16 January 2023 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Chessie System Trains.JPG (An undated photo from the Brunswick yards. Probably mid-70s. The Chessie System was formed as a holding company for the 3 railroads, C&O, B&O, and WM (owned by B&O), but each maintained their individual identities. Less than half of all the locomotives were ever painted in the Chessie scheme and all of the retained the reporting marks of their home railroad. This practice continued until Chessie merged with Seaboard and everything became CSX. These GP9 locomotives powered the pre-MARC commut...)
• 18:35, 16 January 2023 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Chessie System Trains.JPG (An undated photo from the Brunswick yards. Probably mid-70s. The Chessie System was formed as a holding company for the 3 railroads, C&O, B&O, and WM (owned by B&O), but each maintained their individual identities. Less than half of all the locomotives were ever painted in the Chessie scheme and all of the retained the reporting marks of their home railroad. This practice continued until Chessie merged with Seaboard and everything became CSX. These GP9 locomotives powered the pre-MARC commut...)
• 18:30, 16 January 2023 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Ephraims Xmas ad.jpg (Appropriate Christmas ad from the 1964 Blade-Times special advertising section for Ephraim's. Some of us will recall that Mrs. Jeanette Ephraim loved cats that were often seen in the old E. Potomac Street store along with the aquarium. (Courtesy of Kim Myers) Category:Smoketown Christmas)
• 18:30, 16 January 2023 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Ephraims Xmas ad.jpg (Appropriate Christmas ad from the 1964 Blade-Times special advertising section for Ephraim's. Some of us will recall that Mrs. Jeanette Ephraim loved cats that were often seen in the old E. Potomac Street store along with the aquarium. (Courtesy of Kim Myers) Category:Smoketown Christmas)
• 18:28, 16 January 2023 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Train-Roundhouse-Brunswick Spires 1975.JPG (Train cars parked behind the Brunswick roundhouse in 1975 with the backside of old main street hovering over. Clockwise between the trains and roundhouse are the then First United Methodist Church on S. Maryland Avenue, Reformed Church, Kaplon's, Red Men's Hall (The Museum), Newberry's and Cincotta buildings on W. Potomac Street. At the bottom of S. Maryland Avenue, you can see the old Gross family home and J.P. Karn's. (Photo by Ray Soderberg) Category:Smoketown Railroad)
• 18:28, 16 January 2023 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Train-Roundhouse-Brunswick Spires 1975.JPG (Train cars parked behind the Brunswick roundhouse in 1975 with the backside of old main street hovering over. Clockwise between the trains and roundhouse are the then First United Methodist Church on S. Maryland Avenue, Reformed Church, Kaplon's, Red Men's Hall (The Museum), Newberry's and Cincotta buildings on W. Potomac Street. At the bottom of S. Maryland Avenue, you can see the old Gross family home and J.P. Karn's. (Photo by Ray Soderberg) Category:Smoketown Railroad)
• 18:27, 16 January 2023 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Diesel Engine in Yard 1975.JPG (A diesel engine sits in the Brunswick yard in 1975. (Photo courtesy of Ray Soderberg) Category:Smoketown Railroad)
• 18:27, 16 January 2023 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Diesel Engine in Yard 1975.JPG (A diesel engine sits in the Brunswick yard in 1975. (Photo courtesy of Ray Soderberg) Category:Smoketown Railroad)
• 18:25, 16 January 2023 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:YMCA Engine and WB Tower 1975.JPG (An image of the Brunswick yards in 1975 after the C&O took over. Is that an F unit that's framed by the YMCA and WB Tower? (Photo courtesy of Ray Soderberg) Category:Smoketown Railroad)
• 18:25, 16 January 2023 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:YMCA Engine and WB Tower 1975.JPG (An image of the Brunswick yards in 1975 after the C&O took over. Is that an F unit that's framed by the YMCA and WB Tower? (Photo courtesy of Ray Soderberg) Category:Smoketown Railroad)
• 18:23, 16 January 2023 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:BES Lower Field Backstop.jpeg (View of one of the old ballfields of old BES from behind the rusted backstop on Sunday, 10/23/22. (Photo by Peter Wenner) Category:Smoketown Schools)
• 18:23, 16 January 2023 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:BES Lower Field Backstop.jpeg (View of one of the old ballfields of old BES from behind the rusted backstop on Sunday, 10/23/22. (Photo by Peter Wenner) Category:Smoketown Schools)
• 18:21, 16 January 2023 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:BES Drinking Fountain.jpeg (An old drinking fountain on the BES playground that no longer works. It's likely those black pipes at the lower right are stenciled, “DUCTILE IRON.” (Photo by Peter Wenner) Category:Smoketown Schools)
• 18:21, 16 January 2023 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:BES Drinking Fountain.jpeg (An old drinking fountain on the BES playground that no longer works. It's likely those black pipes at the lower right are stenciled, “DUCTILE IRON.” (Photo by Peter Wenner) Category:Smoketown Schools)
• 18:18, 16 January 2023 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:BES 1st grade wing.jpeg (Old first grade classrooms at the current BES on Sunday, 10/23/22. Some of the memories that were written about include: Brenton Barger My first grade teacher was Mrs. Margaret Strailman. Loved her dearly... Like a 2nd Mom! 2nd grade was Miss Talbert...not sure of spelling.... remember when she made us take a nap... she took one too! Once in a while she would have "gas"...and it would slip out. If one was misbehaving... you had to sit under her desk! Paul Lake had that distinction one day wh...)
• 18:18, 16 January 2023 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:BES 1st grade wing.jpeg (Old first grade classrooms at the current BES on Sunday, 10/23/22. Some of the memories that were written about include: Brenton Barger My first grade teacher was Mrs. Margaret Strailman. Loved her dearly... Like a 2nd Mom! 2nd grade was Miss Talbert...not sure of spelling.... remember when she made us take a nap... she took one too! Once in a while she would have "gas"...and it would slip out. If one was misbehaving... you had to sit under her desk! Paul Lake had that distinction one day wh...)
• 18:11, 16 January 2023 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:BES Auditorium & Cafeteria.jpeg (Cafeteria, auditorium and bus room at the old BES on Sunday, 10/23/22. Many of us remember being ordered by a patrolman to stand against the wall for misbehaving here while waiting for the bus, as well as performing in school plays and talent shows. This was also the lunch room. (Photo by Peter Wenner) Category:Smoketown Schools)
• 18:11, 16 January 2023 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:BES Auditorium & Cafeteria.jpeg (Cafeteria, auditorium and bus room at the old BES on Sunday, 10/23/22. Many of us remember being ordered by a patrolman to stand against the wall for misbehaving here while waiting for the bus, as well as performing in school plays and talent shows. This was also the lunch room. (Photo by Peter Wenner) Category:Smoketown Schools)