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| 18:05, 1 April 2023 | "Independence Limited" excursion between DC and Chicago 1973.png (file) |  |
3.26 MB | Brunswick railroaders and a policeman Bernard Burch with a steam locomotive under the water tower. According to Wade Watson: “Southern Railway 2-8-2 #4501. In the summer of 1973 it pulled the "Independence Limited" excursion between DC and Chicago. I'm sure this is a photo of the service and crew change from that trip.” Directly behind the tender was an auxillery-water only tender. (From the Myer Kaplon photo collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries)... | 1 |
| 01:30, 14 November 2022 | .Gayhart.jpg (file) |  |
250 KB | Dave Gayhart was Track Foreman in 1982. (Photo by Blair Harrington courtesy of Laura Alcarese) Category:Smoketown Railroaders | 1 |
| 18:05, 29 July 2023 | 13724994 10209045627194714 234984253484165378 o.jpg (file) |  |
177 KB | Uploaded a work by Kathy Carter Escamilla from Facebook with UploadWizard | 1 |
| 17:24, 10 October 2021 | 15578271 10154262276795208 1518142801246346412 o.jpg (file) |  |
494 KB | This safe deposit bag was used by W.B. Wenner and family members to deposit daily earnings from The City Meat Market on W. Potomac Street into the bank. According to Judge Bill Wenner, only family members were allowed to staff the cash register and drop off the daily proceeds. The store stood where the Ambulance Company resides today. The People's National Bank building still stands proudly across from Beans in the Belfry. In recent years, it was the home office of a printing company? (Pho... | 1 |
| 17:51, 17 March 2024 | 1920px-Building in the 200 Block of West Potomac Street, destroyed by fire.jpg (file) |  |
313 KB | This old building in the 200 Block of West Potomac Street was then home to the A. Hemp Jr. Meat & Grocery Store and MacKenzie's Ice Cream Parlor in the early 20th Century. The folks posing in front of Hemp's are from left, Charles Bowers, Abe Hemp, unknown. Outside MacKenzie's were Paul MacKenzie, future confectionary owner Betz Mills and his brother Howard. Note the dirt street. We believe that the photo dates to the early 1900s since the Mills brothers were born in the 1890s. The building... | 1 |
| 21:03, 17 March 2024 | 1924 Flood Aerial View Virginia Side.jpg (file) |  |
241 KB | This early aviation aerial photo shows the raging Potomac River leaving its banks on the Virginia side of the old bridge. When this photo was taken in May, 1924, the bridge had been ordered closed to all traffic heading to and from Brunswick, which was obviously the right call as it was under deep water. At the approach, we see the old bridge tollhouse on the left that was destroyed by the historic flood of 1936. The section closest to the bridge access ramp was demolished in 1955 when the n... | 1 |
| 18:13, 17 March 2024 | 1924 Flood Tollhouse on Virginia Side.jpeg (file) |  |
2.52 MB | This photo shows the toll gates on the Virginia side of the old Brunswick bridge. The tollgate was in use until October 15th, 1934, when the road became part of the Maryland State Road System and became toll free. This image was taken when the May 14th, 1924 floodwaters came right up to the toll gate. The toll house was torn down when the new bridge was completed in 1955. (Photo courtesy of the City of Brunswick, Maryland History Commission; Info excerpted from “Images of America: Brunswick”... | 1 |
| 19:46, 25 February 2023 | 1936 Flood Flynn's Barber Shop.jpeg (file) |  |
2.18 MB | Another flood photo at the foot of S. Maple Avenue, presumably in 1936. The small building on the left was reported to have been Flynn's barber shop. Rowboats were the only way to get around that part of town at this time. (Photo courtesy of the City of Brunswick Maryland History Commission; information from "Images of America: Brunswick by Mary Rubin) Category:Smoketown Great Floods | 1 |
| 19:06, 19 March 2022 | 1936 Flood Harpers Ferry.JPG (file) |  |
314 KB | Photo of Harpers Ferry in the Great St. Patrick's Day flood of March 17-19, 1936. The rivers rose to 36.5 feet--an all time record high. The Bollman Highway and Shenandoah Bridges were washed away. Many lower town businesses were left in ruins. (Photo courtesy of the Jefferson County Museum) Category:Smoketown Great Floods | 1 |
| 19:07, 19 March 2022 | 1936 Flood Harpers Ferry 2.JPG (file) |  |
298 KB | A photo of Harpers Ferry in the Great St. Patrick's Day flood of March 17-19, 1936. The rivers rose to 36.5 feet--an all time record high. The Bollman Highway and Shenandoah Bridges were washed away. Many lower town businesses were left in ruins. (Photo courtesy of the Jefferson County Museum) Category:Smoketown Great Floods | 1 |
| 19:08, 19 March 2022 | 1936 Flood Harpers Ferry 3.JPG (file) |  |
273 KB | A photo of Harpers Ferry in the Great St. Patrick's Day flood of March 17-19, 1936. The rivers rose to 36.5 feet--an all time record high. The Bollman Highway and Shenandoah Bridges were washed away. Many lower town businesses were left in ruins. (Photo courtesy of the Jefferson County Museum) Category:Smoketown Great Floods | 1 |
| 17:56, 10 April 2022 | 1956-57 4th grade BES.jpg (file) |  |
383 KB | Part of the BHS Class of 1965 in their 4th grade group photo from Brunswick Elementary School. Photos were taken during the 1956-57 school year. The children are: Top row: John Younkins, Linda Lowery, Brenton Barger, Mrs. Frances Manuel, Billy Rhinemon, Miriam Arnold, James Reynolds, Nancy Grams (McBride) 2nd row: Mary Jane Frocke?, Mike Kronk, Becky Danner, Mary Margaret Lloyd (Slagle), Wayne Gosnell, Peggy Rhinemon 3rd row: Gil Caniford, Carolyn Gaynor, Paul Lake, Linda Barnhart, James... | 1 |
| 17:42, 10 October 2021 | 1956 Chevy Pumper Rolls Out.jpg (file) |  |
30 KB | The 1956 Chevy Pumper rolls out. (Photo taken from the home movies of Marvin Younkins, courtesy of the Younkins family and the Brunswick Heritage Museum) | 1 |
| 20:17, 5 December 2021 | 1958 Mid-Air Collision 1.jpg (file) |  |
171 KB | On May 30, 1958, a horrific air crash between military and jet airliners collided in mid-air between Brunswick and Point of Rocks. It was a long-fought legal case that led to stronger federal air traffic controls. Using binoculars, mill operator Walker Smith watched the surviving pilot descend by parachute. He drove to the crash site and took a few pictures. (Photography by Walker R. Smith of Doubs) Category:Smoketown Police - Fire - Ambulance | 1 |
| 20:20, 5 December 2021 | 1958 Mid-Air Collision 2.jpg (file) |  |
227 KB | On May 30, 1958, a horrific air crash between military and jet airliners collided in mid-air between Brunswick and Point of Rocks. It was a long-fought legal case that led to stronger federal air traffic controls. Using binoculars, mill operator Walker Smith watched the surviving pilot descend by parachute. He drove to the crash site and took this photo of what appears to be part of the fusilage of the military jet (Photography by Walker R. Smith of Doubs) [[Category:Smoketown Police - Fir... | 1 |
| 20:25, 5 December 2021 | 1958 Mid-Air Collision Citizens .jpg (file) |  |
145 KB | Local citizens on their way to the crash site of a military jet and commercial airliner on 30 May, 1958. near Point of Rocks off 464. (Photography by Walker R. Smith of Doubs) Category:Smoketown Police - Fire - Ambulance | 1 |
| 00:09, 10 October 2023 | 1959 BHS Girls Sports.JPG (file) |  |
95 KB | BHS Railroader girls were victorious in field hockey and field ball in 1959 at the old high school atop the 4th Avenue hill. According to Sean Staub, "Field ball was a game played on a soccer field with a soccer ball or basketball by two teams of 11 members each and combining many of the techniques of basketball and soccer." Mrs. Ruth Nicholson coached field hockey and may have also coached field ball. You may need to download the photo and enlarge to see all the names. (BHS Yearbook photo... | 1 |
| 21:43, 21 October 2022 | 1966 LL State Champs.jpg (file) |  |
88 KB | P.L. Orrison, Mitch Deener, Brent Albert and Craig Crowl celebrate on their home field in Brunswick after our Little League all stars defeated East Frederick 4-1 to advance to the State Tournament in Hagerstown. The year was 1966. Brunswick won the state tournament and went to the regionals in Louisville, KY. (News clipping courtesy of Kristi Deener Mitchell) Category:Smoketown Baseball | 1 |
| 16:25, 19 September 2021 | 1971 BHS JV Football.jpeg (file) |  |
4.49 MB | The BHS Junior Varsity football team in the Fall of 1971. After losing it's first two games to Boonsboro and Smithburg, the Railroaders finsihed the season by reeling off 6 straight victories to finish 6-2. Here's who was on the team: First row: Mike Barker (Manager), David Deavers, Kevin Barker, Chris Hoffman, Tim Schuster, Mike Stack, Steve Barnhart, David Hamilton, Todd Cummings, Tommy Ayers, Drew Hawes (Manager) Second Row: Steve Smith (Manager), Randy Carey, Steve Utterback, David Hou... | 1 |
| 18:03, 2 August 2023 | AME Church History.jpg (file) |  |
1.06 MB | Uploaded a work by The Brunswick Citizen from Brunswick History Commission with UploadWizard | 1 |
| 00:49, 13 June 2022 | APA Guy Lombardo 1965.jpeg (file) |  |
2.22 MB | A cover letter that accompanied a proposed contract from the Agency of the Performing Arts (APA) in Chicago for Guy Lombardo to appear with his orchestra at the old Brunswick Fire Hall on May 12, 1965. (Courtesy of Mary Jo Brown) Category:Smoketown Music | 1 |
| 00:44, 13 June 2022 | APA Guy Lombardo 1965 (1).jpeg (file) | .jpeg) |
2.46 MB | A proposal from the Agency of the Performing Arts (APA) in Chicago regarding the availability of Guy Lombardo or Sammy Kaye to perform with their orchestras at the old Brunswick Fire Hall in the Spring of 1965. (Courtesy of Mary Jo Brown) | 1 |
| 00:47, 13 June 2022 | APA Guy Lombardo 1965 (2).jpeg (file) | .jpeg) |
2.12 MB | A follow up letter from the APA to Sonny Cannon advising that Guy Lombardo's appearance at the old Fire Hall needed to be cancelled due to the bankruptcy of Lombardo's Florida nightclub. Sammy Kaye was available to perform instead. (Courtesy of Mary Jo Brown) Category:Smoketown Music | 1 |
| 20:11, 20 November 2022 | Acme Prize.jpg (file) |  |
944 KB | Store manager Joe Reed presented Beth Mentzer with a GE heavy duty dryer at the old Acme supermarket in 1987. Acme gave away the dryer as part of an ongoing promotion that also featured a color TV set. Beth said that prior to this, she had "never won anything". If anyone has other photos of the Acme store on New Addition, please feel free to share them with us! (Brunswick Citizen clipping courtesy of City of Brunswick Maryland History Commission) Category:Smoketown Businesses | 1 |
| 19:52, 14 August 2022 | Ada Belle Stewart.jpg (file) |  |
28 KB | Ada Belle (Arnett) Stewart posing when she worked as a volunteer in Brunswick during the Spanish Flu epidemic 1918. (Photo courtesy of Mark Stewart) Category:Smoketown Beginnings | 1 |
| 16:33, 10 October 2023 | Aircraft Warning ID (1).jpg (file) | .jpg) |
32 KB | This Aircraft Warning Service ID for Zoe Kline was found in an old desk by her daughter. The service utilized private citizens who looked for and reported on enemy aircraft during World War II. (Courtesy of Carolyn Kline Cogle) Category:Smoketown Our Soldiers | 1 |
| 21:14, 17 March 2024 | Amber Dykes Fashion Contest.jpg (file) |  |
513 KB | Brunswick High's Amber Dykes won fourth place in a statewide clothing design contest in 1987. Amber went on the work wardrobe for Tyler Perry and other prominent entertainers. The Brunswick Citizen, January 22, 1987. (Clipping courtesy of City of Brunswick MD History Commission) Category: Smoketown Kids | 1 |
| 23:21, 27 November 2022 | Ambulance Co 2022.jpg (file) |  |
794 KB | Brunswick Volunteer Ambulance and Rescue Company begins its procession up E. Potomac Street in the 2022 Veterans Day Parade. (Photo courtesy of Jeff Pearl) Category:Smoketown Parades and Celebrations | 1 |
| 21:30, 21 October 2022 | American legion champs 1968.jpg (file) |  |
230 KB | The 1968 Blade-Times caption read: "Paul Barker and Paul Taylor present American Legion District baseball trophy to Bill Merriman during Sunday's banquet at the Legion." (Courtesy of the City of Brunswick, Maryland History Commission) Category:Smoketown Baseball | 1 |
| 22:14, 14 August 2022 | Amos Haller KoP.jpg (file) |  |
435 KB | Amos Haller (1959-1930) shown in his Knights of Pythias regalia sometime around the turn of the 20th Century. Note his name on the sword. The Brunswick Knights of Pythias Lodge 122 was founded on October 24, 1892. We believe the lodges were located at 1 N. Virginia Avenue and on I Street at different times. According to records, the organization was active in Brunswick as late as 1944. (Photo courtesy of Dawn Haller) Category:Smoketown Organizations | 1 |
| 18:38, 19 February 2022 | Ann Smallwood 1957.jpeg (file) |  |
209 KB | Graduation photo of Ann Smallwood, Lincoln High School Class of 1957. She was the daughter of Charles and Agnes Smallwood of Petersville. In those days, black secondary students were still bussed to Frederick to attend school until BHS was de-segregated in the late 1950s. (Photo courtesy of Linda Smallwood Fisher) Category:Smoketown African American Heritage | 1 |
| 17:32, 1 April 2023 | Ann Wenner 1942-43.jpeg (file) |  |
44 KB | Ann Wenner (Osteen) in her 3rd grade year at West Brunswick Elementary School. (Photo from the collection of E. Virginia "Ginny" Van Pelt) Category:Smoketown Schools | 1 |
| 19:11, 14 August 2022 | Anne-Lynn Gross.jpg (file) |  |
648 KB | Brunswick's "singing auctioneer" Anne-Lynn Gross held up one of many historic items that she auctioned off at the old Gross Brothers' store on S. Maryland Avenue next to the railroad tracks. According to the photo caption from The Brunswick Citizen, September 24, 1987, the auction was "one of the many events being held this busy weekend." It also posed the question "will she blow the horn she is holding to start the event." (Courtesy of the City of Brunswick, Maryland History Commission) [... | 1 |
| 18:38, 17 October 2022 | Ariel View of Brunswick Yard.JPG (file) |  |
146 KB | Aerial view of the WB Yard in Brunswick. Can anyone guess the year? The roundhouse was still there in the lower part of the photo, but it appears that part of the coal tipple is gone. (Photo courtesy of Keith Yanky) Category:Smoketown Railroad | 1 |
| 16:46, 20 February 2022 | Audrey Harrington.jpeg (file) |  |
313 KB | Audrey Harrington with her doll baby outside Conway's store on E. Potomac Street in the 1920s. We believe this store was located about a block east of the old Moose Club. (Photo courtesy of Kim Myers) Category:Smoketown Kids | 1 |
| 18:49, 19 February 2022 | Aunt Lucy's Ads.jpeg (file) |  |
276 KB | Ads for Aunt Lucy's show that the brand was about more than ham. (Photos and information courtesy of "Walkersville: Our Town") Category:Smoketown African American Heritage | 1 |
| 18:48, 19 February 2022 | Aunt Lucy.jpeg (file) |  |
38 KB | Aunt Lucy, the inspiration for the Aunt Lucy's brand of smoked and country hams. Aunt Lucy's Ham products were a fixture in Frederick County for generations. It was a marquee menu item at the Hawaiian restaurant on Route 180 for years. Lucy Scott was born to slave parents in Kent County, in 1834. She was brought to Walkersville when she was 4 years old. As an adult she became known around town as Aunt Lucy, a fantastic cook, specializing in curing hams. In 1929, the Stauffer family be... | 1 |
| 17:50, 7 November 2021 | Ayres Fauble Thompson.jpg (file) |  |
55 KB | From a late 1960s parade, it looks like Charlie Flook behind the wheel of a 1929 Chrysler. Among the faces in the crowd from the left are young Tommy Ayres, Russell Fauble, Donald Ayres and then Police Chief Tommy Thompson, in uniform. (From the Myer Kaplon Photo Collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown Parades and Celebrations | 1 |
| 22:05, 21 October 2022 | B&O Emergency Hospital Porch.jpeg (file) |  |
2.51 MB | A view of the B&O Yard likely taken from the porch of the old emergency hospital building next to the YMCA. Although the date is unknown, this photo was taken after 1907 as the original roundhouse had been replaced by this structure as part of an infrastructure improvement that included the YMCA and the west half of the yard. (Photo courtesy of Jody Brumage and the South Mountain Heritage Society) Category:Smoketown B&O YMCA | 1 |
| 18:38, 2 August 2023 | B&O Railroad Medicine.png (file) |  |
3.47 MB | Uploaded a work by Myer Kaplan from Brunswick Public Library with UploadWizard | 1 |
| 19:26, 31 March 2024 | B&O Roundhouse Final Days 1995.jpg (file) |  |
180 KB | The empty, decaying roundhouse in its final days in 1995. Despite a thousand signatures on a petition to save it, the CSX moved forward to demolish it in 1996. It was a sad day in Brunswick to all who worked there and remember it fondly. Susan Alexander My father, Floyd Waters, worked on the B&O Railroad. One day he took me down to the roundhouse (We lived on Walnut Street) and I got to see an engine being turned around. What a wonderful sight. I wish it was still there. So much history. Te... | 1 |
| 19:21, 31 March 2024 | B&O Roundhouse and Turntable 1995.jpg (file) |  |
208 KB | The turntable covered in snow and cordoned off in its final days in 1995. (From the Lee B. Smith Collection courtesy of the City of Brunswick MD History Commission) Category: Smoketown Railroad | 1 |
| 20:16, 31 March 2024 | B&O Safety First.jpg (file) |  |
516 KB | "Safety First" was a longtime motto of the B&O Railroad. Here's the cover of a B&O Employees Magazine from August 1913. (B&O Museum image courtesy of David McIntosh) Category: Smoketown Railroad | 1 |
| 19:27, 19 February 2022 | B&O Thoroughfare Town Between Tracks.jpeg (file) |  |
98 KB | This early photo of the Brunswick B&O thoroughfare is believed to date to 1909-11. You can see the WB Tower and an outline of the original roundhouse in the background at around "1 o'clock". What was left of the "Town Between the Track can be seen in the foreground right. According to John Roby Morsberger, here are some notes: 1. At first glance, I thought the platform on the left was concrete, but closer examination appears to be large timbers. 2. A magnifying glass on the original photo... | 1 |
| 17:26, 30 July 2023 | B&O YMCA with well dressed men.jpg (file) |  |
107 KB | Uploaded a work by B&O Museum courtesy of David McIntosh from B&O Museum with UploadWizard | 1 |
| 16:50, 1 April 2023 | BES 1st Grade House-Kao-Cage.JPG (file) |  |
3.19 MB | First day of school for first graders at Brunswick Elementary School in Mrs. Zelda Virts' class on September 4, 1963. David House, David Kao and Pete Cage were photographed here for The Blade-Times. The facial expressions were priceless. (Photo courtesy of A.F. "Pete" Cage) Category:Smoketown Schools | 1 |
| 18:18, 16 January 2023 | BES 1st grade wing.jpeg (file) |  |
2.82 MB | 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... | 1 |
| 18:11, 16 January 2023 | BES Auditorium & Cafeteria.jpeg (file) |  |
2.6 MB | 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 | 1 |
| 18:21, 16 January 2023 | BES Drinking Fountain.jpeg (file) |  |
5.9 MB | 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 | 1 |
| 20:13, 9 October 2023 | BES Farewell Brick.jpg (file) |  |
237 KB | An example of souvenir bricks that were sold at the Farewell Ceremony on May 12, 2023. (Photo courtesy of Lisa Cornelius Soudry) Category:Smoketown Schools | 1 |
