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25 February 2023

  • 19:2719:27, 25 February 2023 diff hist +518‎ N 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... current
  • 19:2419:24, 25 February 2023 diff hist +642‎ N 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... current
  • 19:1919:19, 25 February 2023 diff hist +778‎ N 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... current
  • 19:1719:17, 25 February 2023 diff hist +441‎ N 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 current
  • 19:1119:11, 25 February 2023 diff hist +417‎ N 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 current
  • 19:0819:08, 25 February 2023 diff hist +494‎ N 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 current
  • 19:0719:07, 25 February 2023 diff hist +452‎ N 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 current
  • 19:0519:05, 25 February 2023 diff hist +704‎ N 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... current

16 January 2023

  • 18:5418:54, 16 January 2023 diff hist +525‎ N 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... current
  • 18:5218:52, 16 January 2023 diff hist +875‎ N 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... current
  • 18:4418:44, 16 January 2023 diff hist +560‎ N 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... current
  • 18:4118:41, 16 January 2023 diff hist +334‎ N 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 current
  • 18:3918:39, 16 January 2023 diff hist +256‎ N 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 current
  • 18:3818:38, 16 January 2023 diff hist +673‎ N 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…... current
  • 18:3618:36, 16 January 2023 diff hist +202‎ N 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 current
  • 18:3518:35, 16 January 2023 diff hist +809‎ N 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... current
  • 18:3018:30, 16 January 2023 diff hist +309‎ N 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 current
  • 18:2818:28, 16 January 2023 diff hist +499‎ N 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 current
  • 18:2718:27, 16 January 2023 diff hist +134‎ N 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 current
  • 18:2518:25, 16 January 2023 diff hist +204‎ N 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 current
  • 18:2318:23, 16 January 2023 diff hist +168‎ N 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 current
  • 18:2118:21, 16 January 2023 diff hist +225‎ N 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 current
  • 18:1818:18, 16 January 2023 diff hist +2,830‎ N 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... current
  • 18:1118:11, 16 January 2023 diff hist +350‎ N 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 current
  • 18:0918:09, 16 January 2023 diff hist +136‎ N File:New BES Construction.jpeg ‎ New Brunswick Elementary School construction on Sunday, 10/23/22. (Photo by Peter Wenner) Category:Smoketown Schools current
  • 18:0518:05, 16 January 2023 diff hist +150‎ N File:Santa '22 Veterans Day Parade.jpg ‎ Mr. & Mrs. Santa ride in the 2022 Veterans Day Parade. (Photo courtesy of Jeff Pearl) Category:Smoketown Parades and Celebrations current
  • 18:0318:03, 16 January 2023 diff hist +96‎ N File:New & Old BES.JPG ‎ Drone view of the new BES construction, Fall 2022. Category:Smoketown Schools current
  • 18:0218:02, 16 January 2023 diff hist +336‎ N File:Gail Metzgar & grandson.JPG ‎ Gail Metzgar smiles for the camera in the undercroft at Grace Church sometime in the early 1990s with her grandson Andrew Metzgar. See Andrew's Mite Lenten offering box. They are a longtime tradition in Anglican and Episcopal parishes. (Photo courtesy of Rebecah Staup Daggett) Category:Smoketown Houses of Worship current
  • 17:5917:59, 16 January 2023 diff hist +601‎ N File:Othello-Estella Belt.jpeg ‎ Brunswick Distinguished Citizen Estella Belt stands beside the sign at the entrance to Othello Regional Park, which was named in honor of her great-great-grandfather, a Black slave who became free after the Civil War. Mrs. Belt resides just across the road from the park on the grounds of Crown Rose Estate. She and her husband James both worked for the Delmar family, who previously owned the estate. Mr. Belt also worked on the Flook farm where the park is situated. This photo was taken on Oc... current
  • 17:5817:58, 16 January 2023 diff hist +378‎ N File:Crown Rose Barn.jpg ‎ he old barn at Crown Rose Estate, formerly known as Oakland. Barley, rye and walnuts are grown on the old farmland for a new distillery operated on the estate. This photo was taken in late October, 2022. https://marylandspirits.org/members/crown-rose-estate/ https://www.crownrose.com/mansion-house (Photo by Peter Wenner) Category:Smoketown Farm Community current
  • 17:5617:56, 16 January 2023 diff hist +359‎ N File:Men@Y 17.4.jpg ‎ A group of men play dominoes at the YMCA sometime in the 1960s. Tally Shewbridge is believed to be the man standing on the left. The man on the left in the white shirt was identified as Walter Riley. (From the Myer Kaplon photo collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown B&O YMCA current
  • 17:5017:50, 16 January 2023 diff hist +348‎ N File:Litten's Dinner-Caniford.jpeg ‎ Here's another photo of the Litten's family holiday dinner in 1948, possibly at the YMCA. Bob Caniford has been identified in the foreground on the right side of the table. (From the Myer Kaplon Photo Collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown Parades and Celebrations current
  • 17:4717:47, 16 January 2023 diff hist +590‎ N File:Litten's Dinner-Bowers-Hickman.png ‎ Photo of a Litten's Cheverolet-Oldsmobile holiday family dinner at an unknown location, which we believe was taken in the 1948 holiday season. Thios may have been the YMCA Standing serving a plate is top salesman Gene Bowers. Next to him are son Gary (in a highchair), his wife Margaret and their good friends Dick and Sue Hickman. Mr. Hickman ran the Litten's repair shop below the showroom on W. Potomac Street. (From the Myer Kaplon Photo Collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frede... current
  • 17:4417:44, 16 January 2023 diff hist +471‎ N File:Townsmen watch Littens blaze.jpeg ‎ Townsmen watch Brunswick volunteer firefighters battle a blaze on the railroad behind Litten's car dealership on West Potomac Street in what we believe was 1940. Unless it was a railroad facility, this appears to have been a garage or auto shop behind the Litten's showroom on W. Potomac Street. (From the Myer Kaplon Photo Collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown Police - Fire - Ambulance current
  • 17:4117:41, 16 January 2023 diff hist +367‎ N File:Flooded canal-mill-lock gate.jpeg ‎ A view of the old mill during one of the great floods of the 20th century. Flood waters like this proved how difficult it was to maintain a working canal along the Potomac River. The man appears to be walking on the lock gates in a photo taken from the old bridge. (Photo courtesy of the Brunswick Heritage Museum) Category:Smoketown Great Floods current
  • 17:3817:38, 16 January 2023 diff hist +566‎ N File:BHS Outing.JPG ‎ he caption on this photo posted on the Frederick Maryland Old Photos page described this photo as depicting 7 BHS students attending a workshop with Mary Foster Cage (BHS Class of '36), who was a beloved English and Remedial Reading at BHS for a generation. Standing in back from left to right were her son Bob Cage (Class of '63), Mary Jo Roudabousch (Brown), Mrs. Cage, Ione Davis and James Short (Class of '62). (Photo from the Dave Maloney collection, courtesy of Heritage, Frederick, Maryl... current

14 January 2023

  • 16:2816:28, 14 January 2023 diff hist +359‎ N File:Locomotive in Sandy Hook.png ‎ An old photo of a locomotive engine at Sandy Hook steaming its way towards Brunswick with Harpers Ferry visible on the left. This may have been taken in the 1930s prior to the advent of diesel trains. (From the Myer Kaplon Photo Collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown Railroad current
  • 16:2316:23, 14 January 2023 diff hist +287‎ N File:Harpers Ferry Tunnel 2 Bridges.png ‎ Interesting perspective of the 2 tracks feeding into the Harpers Ferry tunnel. It's difficult to know when the photo was taken. (From the Myer Kaplon photo collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown Railroad current
  • 16:1716:17, 14 January 2023 diff hist +478‎ N File:Men standing in a field.jpeg ‎ A group of men getting direction from the man in the plaid jacket in a local field. Maybe Rotarians preparing to cut trees for a Christmas drive in the late 1940s? It's believed to have been West Schnauffer on the far left, Bill Weller in the leather jacket and Harry Mace standing next to Mr. Weller on his right. (From the Myer Kaplon Photo Collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown Organizations current
  • 16:0516:05, 14 January 2023 diff hist +184‎ N File:Blair Harrington Office.jpg ‎ Blair Harrington’s office inside the Brunswick westbound train station in 1982. (Photo by Blair Harrington courtesy of Laura Alcarese) Category:Smoketown Railroad current
  • 15:4415:44, 14 January 2023 diff hist +687‎ N File:Leftwich Party.png ‎ Group photo of a party for Harry Leftwich, who was general manager of the B&O YMCA at the time in what we believe to have been the late 1940s. Judging from the briefcase, which may have been a gift, this might have been his going away party. Behind Mr. Leftwich on the left was his successor Marvin Younkins. It's believed that Clara Mentzer is the little lady with glasses left of the table. She worked in the YMCA restaurant for years. Evelyn Darr, who was secretary and eventually General Mana... current
  • 15:3315:33, 14 January 2023 diff hist +559‎ N File:Red Men's Hall 1906.JPG ‎ This photo of the Red Men's Hall (now the Brunswick Heritage Museum on 40 W Potomac Street), was among many commissioned by then Mayor A.G. Horine in 1906 to reflect the town's progress. Note the natural dirt road on what was then known as Main Street and the three small shops where the Newberry's building is today. This is why Newberry's had three different addresses until recently when it was consolidated into one during the ongoing renovations of the historic building. (Photo courtesy of... current
  • 15:3115:31, 14 January 2023 diff hist +680‎ N File:Eastbound waiting room.jpg ‎ The waiting room in Brunswick's eastbound train station back in 1982. When the station was demolished in the 1980s, the “no loafing” sign made its way to the museum. According to Norm Cornelius, "the reason that sign was posted was because the East Bound Station was not manned by an Agent oe Station Master. The Brunswick B&O Station Agent was located at the Westbound Office. During the 1960’s the agent would Open the Eastbound Building and sell tickets prior to the first Bud Car (MARC) depart... current

27 December 2022

27 November 2022

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