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the water was smooth and deep enough for boats except for one ripple caused by fish dams (fish

pots).

Ultimately, however, the Potomac Navigation Company was not a financial success, so it was abandoned. After the war of 1812, the policy that George Washington had sponsored a generation before was taken up by the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company.

S - Helen Urner Price, an article in Maryland Bulletin of 1932. The writer used George Washington's journal of his explorations as her source.

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Do You Remember ...

The Moonlight Dippers and the Honey Wagons? As long as people used outside plumbing, the important services of these specialized workers were needed.

The straw sailor hats men wore in the 20's?

That the men wore women's fancy garters as sleeve holders?

When the girls wore flared skirts and big bow ribbons and dresses with puffed sleeves?

When a B&O train carried people from Brunswick and other places to Halethorpe for the Fair of the Iron Horse in 1927?

When the B&O furnished an excursion to Pen Mar Amusement Park? It went to Hagerstown on its own line, thence to Pen Mar via the Western Maryland Railway tracks.

The machine at Mr. Werntz's grocery store that ground coffee on one end and peanuts into peanut butter on the other?

When syrup and vinegar did NOT come in neat containers, but in barrels? Each customer brought his own containers.

When milk was 15 cents a quart?

When each house had a living room stove? It burned wood or coal (oil, as we became more sophisticated). A sheet of tin backed with asbestos kept sparks from the stove-fireplace in some cases - from damaging the rug or wooden floor.

When Heatrolas came on the market and one could burn hard coal for a longer burning and less-demanding attention?

Lap robes that were used in horse-drawn buggies and early automobiles?

When Rev. Harvey Bickle was head of the YMCA, and the "Y" sponsored a baseball team?

When the New York Hill kids started sledding on Ninth Avenue, and ended up at City Park? Their homemade sleds held five or six riders.

When the curve at Fitzgerald Hill was a right-angle corner like every other street and the yard of the corner house sloped out as far as the rest of the lawns on Tenth Avenue? It was a dirt street then.

The Mexican sandwiches and the vegetable soup at BHS Cafeteria? John Thomas Staub says he thinks he's never tasted any like that since then. Umm-good.

How the home ec area had to double as the cafeteria -and the teacher managed both?

Gwen Stewart (now McCallum)? Since moving to Silver Spring she has entertained 56 guests from overseas in her home, earning the title "International Hostess."

When the Ku Klux Klan marched through town in their white hooded gowns and had a cross burning on the field where Acme Market stands?

The Chinese laundry? Gretchen Jane Rollison's mother once lived upstairs over the Chinese laundry, south of the westbound tracks. The owner had braided hair that hung down his back - a "queue," it was called. He thought that when it had grown to his waist he would have accumulated enough money to return to his homeland. He wore Chinese shoes, with ridges on the bottom. His clomp, clomp could be heard across the wooden floor. Gretchen Jane assumes he was here in the 1890's.

When the State Roads Commission agreed to cooperate with the town in installing a temporary passenger ferry across the Potomac River from Virginia while the Brunswick bridge was closed three months for repairs?

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