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20 November 2019

• 15:5715:57, 20 November 2019 diff hist +760 N File:12 Pontoon bridge and ruins of the stone bridge across the Potomac (destroyed in 1861).jpg [Berlin (now Brunswick), Md. pontoon bridge and ruins of the stone bridge across the Potomac (destroyed in 1861)] This stereograph by Alexander Gardner shows telegraph pole at left and pontoon bridge built by Union troops across the Potomac River at B...
• 15:4915:49, 20 November 2019 diff hist +1,683 N File:11 C.F. Wenner Orignial Farmhouse - Glenwood.jpg Margaret Myers (Mulkey) standing in front of "Glenwood" in 1921. This home was originally the farmhouse of C.F. Wenner, one of several successful farmers and merchants who established businesses in Berlin along the river bottom as the railroad and cana... current
• 15:4615:46, 20 November 2019 diff hist +843 N File:10 Berlin Map with arry Post Office Designation.jpg Here is a map of Berlin that's a bit more detailed than the one we have for 1858. What's also different is the notation of "Barry PO". The reason for the "Barry" post office designation was to differentiate our Berlin from the town on the eastern shore... current
• 13:4913:49, 20 November 2019 diff hist +49 N File:09 Berlin - 1858 - Credit Library of Congress.jpg Category:Smoketown Beginnings current
• 13:4713:47, 20 November 2019 diff hist +266 N File:08 Cramptons Mill at Lock 30.jpg Crampton's Mill was located along the C & O Canal at Lock 30. The milling business in Berlin dates back to 1795 and flourished under C.F. Wenner before, during and after the Civil War. (Photo courtesy of Phil Lowery) Category:Smoketown Beginnings current
• 13:4513:45, 20 November 2019 diff hist +36 File:07 Old mill on the C&O Canal.jpg No edit summary current
• 13:4413:44, 20 November 2019 diff hist +1,959 N File:07 Old mill on the C&O Canal.jpg his information about the old mill on the C&O Canal in Brunswick is on a marker on the towpath below the old mill site. It reads: "Canal water was an important ingredient in the production of 'C.F. Wenner's Choice Family Flour'. Businessman Charles Fe...
• 13:3913:39, 20 November 2019 diff hist +513 N File:Track to Coal Dump.jpg Just a row of posts at least 40 years ago, this track was used to dump coal out of train cars at the Mill in Brunswick on the C&O Canal. The coal could then be sold or (in earlier days) be transferred to canal boats. It may have also been used for oth... current
• 13:3013:30, 20 November 2019 diff hist +1,043 N File:Myer Kaplon photo of a covered bridge.jpg For now, we're putting this in the "Brunswick's Beginnings" album. It's a Myer Kaplon photo of a covered bridge pastel of some kind above the shoe and Hallmark Card displays. This was probably taken in the 1960s before the legendery Kaplan’s Departme... current
• 13:2413:24, 20 November 2019 diff hist +1,974 N File:06 Covered bridge at Berlin-Brunswick.jpg Drawing of covered bridge at Berlin/Brunswick as shown in Brunswick, 100 Years of Memories. The C&O Canal is in the foreground. This sketch was used as a banner for the Brunswick Herald & Loudoun County Advertiser, the town's first weekly newspaper. T... current
• 13:2213:22, 20 November 2019 diff hist +619 N File:05 Early Plat of Town of Berlin.jpg Early Plat of Town of Berlin (Brunswick) as Leonard Smith laid it out in 1787. According to Brunswick historian Rev. Austin Cooper, C.F. Wenner's farm that ran the length of Maple Avenue, or "Wenner's Hill", was originally owned by Leonard Smith, a ma... current
• 13:1013:10, 20 November 2019 diff hist +1,030 N File:04 First German Reformed Church Site and Cemetery.jpg The First German Reformed Church Site and Cemetery outside Lovettsville is the resting place of some of Brunswick's founding families, including several generations of names like Smith, Wenner, George, Souder and Arnold. The church was founded before 1... current
• 13:0813:08, 20 November 2019 diff hist +3,108 N File:03 Abraham Pennington was the first settler near Eel Pot, 1728.jpg According to this display at the Heritage Museum, "Abraham Pennington was the first settler near Eel Pot". He arrived in 1728. Pennington was a trader attracted by Native Americans and "the steady stream of predominantly German farmers from Pennsylvan... current
• 12:5312:53, 20 November 2019 diff hist +94 N File:In the beginning, people travelling from the heights above the river.jpg Jknight moved page File:In the beginning, people travelling from the heights above the river.jpg to File:02 In the beginning, people travelling from the heights above the river.jpg current Tag: New redirect
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• 12:5212:52, 20 November 2019 diff hist +51 N File:Eelpot Flats early name.jpg Jknight moved page File:Eelpot Flats early name.jpg to File:01 - Eelpot Flats early name.jpg current Tag: New redirect
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• 09:0109:01, 20 November 2019 diff hist +1,203 N File:02 In the beginning, people travelling from the heights above the river.jpg In the beginning, people travelling from the heights above the river on the land that is now Brunswick had only one way to cross the Potomac River: Eel Pot Ford. Native Americans named the village after the traps they set in the shallow waters of the...
• 08:5808:58, 20 November 2019 diff hist −8 File:01 - Eelpot Flats early name.jpg No edit summary
• 08:5808:58, 20 November 2019 diff hist +41 N Category:Smoketown Beginnings Created page with "Category:Smoketown History Collection " current
• 08:5708:57, 20 November 2019 diff hist +1,493 N File:01 - Eelpot Flats early name.jpg The area now known as Brunswick was originally home to the Susquehanna Indians. In 1728 the first settlement was built, and the region became known as Eel Town, because the natives would fish for eel in the Potomac River. A grant to the land was then g...
• 08:5308:53, 20 November 2019 diff hist +256 N File:Waiters at a crab feed in the 1950s..jpg Waiters at a crab feed in the 1950s. Farmers' Woods? Can anyone identify the men? (From the Myer Kaplon photo collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown African American Heritage current
• 08:5208:52, 20 November 2019 diff hist +280 N File:Gospel Temple Church, 46 West J Street.jpg Gospel Temple Church 46 West J Street Brunswick, MD (Photo courtesy of Nancy M. Langley - 03/15/10) Richard SK Brooks: I know Mr. Berry was one of the builders of the bldg. My uncle is the presiding Bishop over it. [[Category:Smoketown African Ameri... current
• 08:5008:50, 20 November 2019 diff hist +169 N File:Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, 26 West J Street, Brunswick.jpg Mt. Olivet Baptist Church 26 West J Street Brunswick, MD (Photo courtesy of Nancy M. Langley - 03/15/10) Category:Smoketown African American Heritage current
• 08:4908:49, 20 November 2019 diff hist +283 N File:Mt. Olivet Baptist church on 26 West J Street Street..jpg The old Mt. Olivet Baptist church on 26 West J Street Street. A more modern church was built on this site. (From the Myer Kaplon photo collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) [[Category:Smoketown African Am... current
• 08:4708:47, 20 November 2019 diff hist +211 N File:Ebenezer AME Church - George C. Hardy Center of Hope.jpg Ebenezer AME Church's newest acquisition: The George C. Hardy Center of Hope. Formerly O.K. Market (Photo courtesy of Nancy M. Langley - 03/15/10) Category:Smoketown African American Heritage current
• 08:4508:45, 20 November 2019 diff hist +51 File:Ebenezer AME Church, 720 North Maple Avenue. Photo courtesy of Nancy M. Langley.jpg No edit summary current
• 08:4508:45, 20 November 2019 diff hist +107 N File:Ebenezer AME Church, 720 North Maple Avenue. Photo courtesy of Nancy M. Langley.jpg Ebenezer AME Church, 720 North Maple Avenue. (Photo courtesy of Nancy M. Langley - 03/15/10)
• 08:4308:43, 20 November 2019 diff hist +542 N File:Ebenezer AME Church, 720 North Maple Avenue.jpg Ebenezer AME Church, 720 North Maple Avenue. John Hammond on the left. Can anyone tells us who is on the right? (Credit Brunswick history Commission) Steve Moore: I remember going to picnics at my Uncle Red's across the street from this church as a l... current
• 08:4008:40, 20 November 2019 diff hist +130 N File:Tanneyhill Monroe - Transfer Shed.jpg (Photo and information courtesy of the Brunswick Railroad Museum) Category:Smoketown African American Heritage current
• 08:4008:40, 20 November 2019 diff hist +256 N File:George Butler - Roundhouse.jpg (Photo and information courtesy of the Brunswick Railroad Museum) Artist Carl Butler: My Grand father George Butler did work at the roundhouse , but eventually worked as a stationary firemen. Category:Smoketown African American Heritage current
• 08:3808:38, 20 November 2019 diff hist +130 N File:James Lipscomb - Shop.jpg (Photo and information courtesy of the Brunswick Railroad Museum) Category:Smoketown African American Heritage current
• 08:3708:37, 20 November 2019 diff hist +130 N File:Frank Brooks - Car Yard.jpg (Photo and information courtesy of the Brunswick Railroad Museum) Category:Smoketown African American Heritage current
• 08:3608:36, 20 November 2019 diff hist +264 N File:Henry Beard - Hostler.jpg (Photo and information courtesy of the Brunswick Railroad Museum) Linda Smallwood Fisher: He had the Coppers Tavern known as Swing Inn, Smoketown History (Brunswick, Md.) Dr.Shirley Colvin's father. Category:Smoketown African American Heritage current
• 08:2708:27, 20 November 2019 diff hist +64 N File:Charles Smallwood - Car Shop, Hostler.jpg Category:Smoketown African American Heritage current
• 08:2608:26, 20 November 2019 diff hist +312 N File:Luther C. Hollan - Railroad Track.jpg (Photo and information courtesy of the Brunswick Railroad Museum) Artist Carl Butler: My relative uncle Luther as we called him :o) who then lived in Coatesville, a small section on Burkittsville Rd. rout 17 ,the road to the town of Burkittsville. [[... current
• 08:2408:24, 20 November 2019 diff hist +1,007 N File:George Hardy, Sr worked at the Transfer Shed.jpg (Photo and information courtesy of the Brunswick Railroad Museum) Brenton Barger: Mr George Hardy was a good friend and neighbor. When my father passed away in 1964, Mr George was one of the first neighbors to stop and ask if he could help in any mann... current
• 08:2008:20, 20 November 2019 diff hist +258 N File:Photo taken in 1975, ID Unknown.jpg Looks like a celebration. Can anyone identify these 2 ladies? Photo was dated 1975. (From the Myer Kaplon photo collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown African American Heritage current
• 08:1908:19, 20 November 2019 diff hist +102 N File:Margaret Butler on right with her daughters Arlene King and sister Mandy Weedon From the Myer Kaplon collection .jpg Jknight moved page File:Margaret Butler on right with her daughters Arlene King and sister Mandy Weedon From the Myer Kaplon collection .jpg to File:Margaret Butler on right with her daughter Arlene King and sister Mandy Weedon .jpg current Tag: New redirect
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• 08:1808:18, 20 November 2019 diff hist +291 File:Margaret Butler on right with her daughter Arlene King and sister Mandy Weedon .jpg No edit summary
• 08:1608:16, 20 November 2019 diff hist +60 N File:The Luther Holland family early 1970s from the Myer Kaplon Photo collection.jpg Jknight moved page File:The Luther Holland family early 1970s from the Myer Kaplon Photo collection.jpg to File:The Luther Holland family early 1970s.jpg current Tag: New redirect
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• 08:1508:15, 20 November 2019 diff hist +187 File:The Luther Holland family early 1970s.jpg No edit summary
• 08:1208:12, 20 November 2019 diff hist +598 N File:David Emanuel Holland with members of his family.jpg Former B&O YMCA custodian David Emanuel Holland (seated) with members of his family on a 1972 visit to the Holland home on H Street in Brunswick. At the time, Mr. Holland was 85 years old. His family came from Coatsville where the Hollands and Butlers... current
• 08:0708:07, 20 November 2019 diff hist +522 N File:B&O Emergency Hospital and Schnauffer Hospital.jpg Back in a distant time, two hospitals operated in Brunswick. There was the B&O Emergency Hospital next to the old YMCA on East Potomac Street and Schnauffer Hospital on the corner of North Virginia Avenue and West B Street (now an apartment building).... current
• 08:0408:04, 20 November 2019 diff hist +37 N File:Cynthia (Cindy) Diane (Simmons) Ferrell Obituary from the Frederick News-Post, November 20,2019.jpg Category:Obituary current

19 November 2019

• 20:3920:39, 19 November 2019 diff hist +2 File:Brunswick kids on Wenner's Hill circa 1965.jpg No edit summary current
• 20:3720:37, 19 November 2019 diff hist +419 N File:Kids view the 1953 LaFrance pumper - mid-1950s.jpg Pete Virts (far left) and Walter S. Rice (in hat & bow-tie) show the kids the 1953 LaFrance pumper - mid-1950s? (Front Row - L/R,) Joe (Baby) Morris, Charles (Turkey) King, Kaye Hardy, Garrett Gilbert, Joyce Gilbert, Vivian King. 2nd Row.. Calvin Laws... current
• 20:3520:35, 19 November 2019 diff hist +224 N File:John Howard Litten's Service Specialish.jpg Litten's service specialist behind the company on W.Potomac Street. This gentleman is believed to have been John Howard. (Photo courtesy of Dr. Richard Bowers) Category:Smoketown African American Heritage current