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18 April 2024
| 15:20 | Upload log Jcaves talk contribs uploaded File:History Commission outside City Hall, 2015.jpg (Category:Organizations Left to right: Bruce Funk, John Faith, Karin Tome, Ruth Staples, Walt Stall, Vicki Dearing, Mike Ward) | ||||
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20:16 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:B&O Safety First.jpg ("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) | ||||
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20:13 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:John B. Funk Family 1947.jpg (The John B. Funk family poses in front of the family home at 13 East A Street, circa 1947. The finely crafted Victorian house was built by Mr. Funk's father Harry in 1905. From left are 1st wife Doris, who passed away in 1953, John Funk, Anne, William and Demory. John B. Funk had a long career as a public servant, a term he asked his family to chisel on his tombstone. A 1922 graduate of Brunswick High School, he was Brunswick City Engineer for years overseeing historic building projects in...) | ||||
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20:11 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Mammy Belle Crummel.jpg ("Mammy Belle" Crummel was a liberated former slave who worked in the home of Dr. and Mrs. Harry Slicer Hedges on 115 E. Potomac Street. As she was still listed as a servant in Eichelberger household in Martinsburg in 1910, she lived with the Hedges family for less than 5 years. Mrs. Hedges was formerly an Eichelberger, whose family operated a newspaper in Martinsburg. "Mammy Belle's" back story is fascinating, according to this research: Robert Daniel Jr. (or Daniels) 1784-1866 was a miller...) | ||||
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20:08 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Methodist Youth Fellowship c 1943-44.jpg (Noted on the back of this photo was "MYF Youth Hike c. 1943-44". The acronym of the group stood for Methodist Youth Fellowship. The children and adults were identified as: Front row (L-R): B. Langley, J. Burgee, M. Taylor, S. Jones, A. Funk, M. Leftwich Middle Row (L-R): D. Stewart, L. Trott, Leftwich, Funk, C. Leftwich, B. Kidwell, C. Frye, L. Griffith Standing (L-R): Rev. Trott, ?, Carlos Myers, Elwood Wineholt Guess at the location are: Jacquelyn Ebersole This could have been Manidok...) | ||||
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20:03 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Girl group posing 1940s.jpg (We're unsure of the occasion, but some of the girls have been identified as: Top Row: Marcella Gladstone, Susanne Gordon, Anne Funk, Beverly Langley, ?, Middle Row: Peggy Langley, Kate Gladstone, Shirley Kneisley?, ? Insley, ?Frye First row: ?, ?, ?, ?, Mary Louise Bratt Terry Heffner My Great Aunt Kate… good memories.. she was ahead of time.. a very independent woman.. miss having conversations with here.. 🥲. Marcella was my Dad’s cousin, wonderful woman… friends with all her daughters....) | ||||
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19:34 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Boys at Pool 1940s.jpg (Some Brunswick boys having fun in 1940 near the swimming pool. they were identified as Buddy Kidwell, Bill Weller, Floyd Smith, Wayne Barker, Johnny Lovelace, Palmer, Jim Welty. (Photo courtesy of Mindy Niles from the Duane Smith Collection and the City of Brunswick MD History Commission) Category: Smoketown Kids) | ||||
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19:31 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Rosemont Schauffer House.png (Plowing a path with an International Harvester Cub Cadet snowblower on a snow day at the Schnaufer house on Rosemont. The driver looks to have been Scott Stauffer. Scott W Stauffer That looks like it could be me. To my knowledge, we were the only family in Rosemont with a Cub Cadet 105 10 hp hydrostatic with chains, wheel weights and a snowblower, bought from HC Summers(Jefferson) in 1968. I removed snow for my neighbors, mostly for free. (From the Myer Kaplon photo collection at the Brunsw...) | ||||
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19:26 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:B&O Roundhouse Final Days 1995.jpg (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...) | ||||
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19:21 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:B&O Roundhouse and Turntable 1995.jpg (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) | ||||
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19:16 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Medora Brady.jpeg (Mrs. Medora Elgin Brady posed for Mr. Kaplon in her beautiful fur coat, hat and gloves sometime in the 1970s. She was active in the community and celebrated on her 90th birthday by the Merryland Tract Homemaker's Club on March 27, 1976. She had been a 30-year member at the time. She owned an antique store at the intersection of Routes 180 and 79 and also sold antiques from her home. Randy George Her parents built the Elgin Hotel in Brunswick in the 1890’s.They also owned a General Merchandi...) | ||||
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19:07 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:High's Mary Ann Wyncoop.png (This was store manager Mary Ann Wyncoop behind the counter at High's in the early '70s. The High's store, which opened around that time was not only the first convenience store chain to open in Brunswick, it was planned to have been part of the new shopping center built on the corner of Souder Road and N. Maple Avenue. The shopping center wasn't fully built out until 1987. For years, High's and the service station were the only businesses at that location. A lot of us kids went there for th...) | ||||
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18:59 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:C.F. Wenner Mill Wayside Marker Dedication.jpeg (This was the ribbon cutting dedicating a National Park Service wayside marker to commemorate Charles Fenton's Wenner's 19th Century mill at Lock 30 on the towpath. The dedication took place in June, 2005. In the photo from left are George Lewis, 2 unidentified park rangers, Judge William W. Wenner (great grandson of C.F. Wenner), Lila Wenner and Jacquelyn Ebersole. Mr. Lewis and Ms. Ebersole were members of the Brunswick Regional Planning Committee. The mill's strategic location made it a cen...) | ||||
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18:56 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Shady Lane Easter.JPG (A lovely mid-'70s Easter Sunday photo from Shady Lane in Petersville. In the photo are: Front row (L-R): Ricky Cooper, Mike Jackson, Leslie Barnes, Melissa Barnes and Amber Dykes 2nd row (L-R): Fay Scott, Velva Cooper, Karen Lipscomb, Cindy Jackson (we had matching hats) Back row: Jeffrey Ramey (Myer Kaplon photo courtesy of Velva Cooper) Category: Smoketown African American Heritage) | ||||
