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B&O's General Manager, E. W. Scheer, led to its

being named after him. Brunswick was justifiably proud of +Scheer Stadium. It was, without a doubt, the finest baseball diamond in the entire area. The "Ys 1930 plans included a bathing beach, athletic and social programs and an annual athletic meet. Tragedy struck on December 24, 1934 when a fire, starting from a short circuit in the basement, spread to all three floors, causing extensive damage. The structure was rebuilt immediately and continued serving the railroad and town until Friday night, November 8, 1980 when an electrical short in the first floor office and lobby touched off another disastrous fire which destroyed the historic structure. While there was a lot of sentiment for again rebuilding on the same site, that idea was eventually ruled out because the site was considered too small and, ironically, too close to the railroad. Over the next few years several other sites were considered, including the area of the old high school at the top of 4th Avenue hill. This also was ultimately found to be unacceptable and the site search continued while train crews with layovers were taxied to motels in Sandy Hook, Charles Town, and elsewhere. Finally selected was the site of the former bowling alley on Souder Road next to Brunswick Cooperative and construction soon got underway. The· frustrating five-and-one-half-year period ofbeingwithouta "Y" endedonJune28, 1986when the new $3.7 million facility was dedicated. The 30,000 square-foot brick building has sixty rooms with single beds, private baths and individual temperature controls. It also has a restaurant, meeting rooms, exercise and weight-lifting equipment and physical fitness directors. A small chapel is highlighted by a stained glass panel originally dedicated in 1916 in memory of a railroad division manager. The window was salvaged from the 1980 fire and kept at the Brunswick Museum until it was fitted into the Chapel. The support of the railroad and the community resurrected a landmark that has always been synonymous with Brunswick.

that a half-acre of land in Berlin was used as a burying ground. The February 18, 1914, deed by William W. Wenner, trustee for Joseph Waltman (deceased), completed the June 11, 1870, bequest of Waltman to Wenner for the land, still used as a graveyard, to be held for burial until the incorporation of an Evangelical Lutheran Church or congregation. At that time the land was to be conveyed to that "church or congregation." At William W. Wenner's death the trusteeship descended to his son of the same name. On the ninth of September, 1892, such a congregation as stipulated did incorporate as "Bethany Evangelical Lutheran Church of Brunswick" (Corporations A No. 2, Frederick County Circuit Court), and the land was transferred as specified (H.W.B. 308/182 &c). This is known as the old Lutheran Cemetery, and is located at the east end of Brunswick Street and the comer of West "B" Street. When the Lutherans finally organized and built a church in 1892, they chose to build close to the middle of the town rather than at the inherited site. The cemetery was eventually deeded to the town of Brunswick. Four family lots still exist - Kidwell, Evans, Lutman, Sigafoose - and were once inclosed by handsome iron fencing, little of which exists today. Few tombstones remain today, but as recently as the 1930's school children were making a "short cut home" through a path between rows of markers. These rows of stones still existed as late as the 1950's. As the stones were displaced by children playing there, eventually a small area became a baseball field until the town prohibited such activity. By then the damage had been done; the loss was irreplaceable. Jacob Mehrling Holdcraft, in Names in Stone, states "It has remained virtually nameless, even to local residents. Only one Lutheran is buried there." The author ends with "(78 names. 1959)." Some of those names have descendents living in Brunswick today; at least one of those intends to be buried in the Berlin Cemetery.

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Source: - Jacob Mehrling Holdcraft, Names in Stone, Monocacy Book Co., Redwood, CA, 1966, pp 18-19. - Bethany Lutheran Church Records - Ellwood Wineholt

CEMETERIES

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THE "BERLIN CEMETERY"

A September 11, 1799, advertisement in the Frederick Town newspaper, The Gazette, is proof

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