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27 November 2019

• 15:5115:51, 27 November 2019 diff hist +78 N File:Noel D. Williams, U.S. Navy World War II.jpg (Courtesy of Noel Williams) Category:Smoketown Our Soldiers current
• 15:5015:50, 27 November 2019 diff hist +198 N File:Richard and Elaiune Bowers.jpg Richard and Elaiune Bowers. Mr Bowers was a Veteran of World War II who retired from the Army as a Colonel. (Photo courtesy of Dr. Richard Bowers) Category:Smoketown Our Soldiers current
• 15:4815:48, 27 November 2019 diff hist +217 N File:Richard Bowers World War II Veteran.jpg Richard Bowers Veteran of World War II pictured here as a lieutenant serving in Europe. He retired from the Army as a Colonel. (Photo courtesy of Dr. Richard Bowers) Category:Smoketown Our Soldiers current
• 12:2312:23, 27 November 2019 diff hist +230 N File:Eugene Bowers, U.S. Army Headquarters Company with his wife Margaret.jpg Eugene Bowers, U.S. Army Headquarters Company with his wife Margaret, who worked building cargo planes for Fairchild during World War II. (Photo courtesy of Sherry Bowers Stull) Category:Smoketown Our Soldiers current
• 12:2212:22, 27 November 2019 diff hist +440 N File:Sergeant Major Eugene Bowers, U.S. Army Headquarters Company.jpg Here's a great illustration of Sergeant Major Eugene Bowers, U.S. Army Headquarters Company, during World War II. We old-timers remember Gene Bowers as a super senior salesman at Litten's and Haley's Cheverolet-Olds dealership in Brunswick, along with... current
• 12:2112:21, 27 November 2019 diff hist +701 N File:Allen L. (Red) Phillips Jr served in the Pacific during World War II.jpg Allen L. ("Red") Phillips Jr served in the Pacific during World War II and was with fellow U.S. Marine forces in China ready to invade Japan when the war ended. He told his family a lot of his Marine comrades loved President Harry S. Truman for conclud... current
• 12:1912:19, 27 November 2019 diff hist +217 N File:Curtis Webber, World War II Veteran.jpg In memory of Curtis Webber, World War II veteran, who honored fellow vets on his BHS alumni page. He passed away yesterday 5/23/2015. (Photo courtesy of Curt Webber) Category:Smoketown Our Soldiers current
• 12:1712:17, 27 November 2019 diff hist +216 N File:Robert Eugene Derflinger USN 1941.jpg Robert Eugene Derflinger USN 1941 Parents - John Wesley Derflinger and Grace Ault Derflinger Wife - Beulah Virginia Lucas Derflinger Children - Shirley, Donna, Randy Category:Smoketown Our Soldiers current
• 12:1612:16, 27 November 2019 diff hist +80 N File:Shelley Dawson with his father and grandmother.jpg (Courtesy of John Brubaker) Category:Smoketown Our Soldiers current
• 12:1512:15, 27 November 2019 diff hist +713 N File:Buck Musser (Veteran and Artist) was raised on 7th Avenue and a graduate of BHS Class of 1956.jpg Buck Musser was raised on 7th Avenue and a graduate of BHS Class of 1956. This is from a Frederiick Newspost article published on January 11, 2010; Veteran and artist Buck Musser has been creating paintings to honor local fallen members of the military... current
• 12:1112:11, 27 November 2019 diff hist +231 N File:Mrs. Rosie Weller Received This Western Union Telegram March 25, 1951.jpg This March 25,1951 Western Union Telegram sent to Mrs. Rosie Weller, reported Cpl. Sterling L. Ambrose went down with his plane and was Missing at Sea. (Courtesy of Phil Lowery) Category:Smoketown Our Soldiers current
• 12:0912:09, 27 November 2019 diff hist +78 N File:Jimmy Dawson was also known as Truby.jpg (Courtesy of John Brubaker) Category:Smoketown Our Soldiers current
• 12:0812:08, 27 November 2019 diff hist +83 N File:World War I Service Award - William Baker Wenner.jpg (Courtesy of Bill & Lila Wenner) Category:Smoketown Our Soldiers current
• 12:0712:07, 27 November 2019 diff hist +78 N File:Bill (Gumps) Grams with his wife Thelma and mother Carrie Grams.jpg (Courtesy of John Brubaker) Category:Smoketown Our Soldiers current
• 12:0612:06, 27 November 2019 diff hist +82 N File:Thelma and Bill Grams with one of their children during World War II..jpg (Photo courtesy of John Brubaker) Category:Smoketown Businesses current
• 12:0512:05, 27 November 2019 diff hist −6 File:Bill Grams and Thelma Grams.jpg No edit summary current
• 12:0312:03, 27 November 2019 diff hist +84 N File:Bill (Gumps) Grams in uniform during World War II.jpg (Photo courtesy of John Brubaker) Category:Smoketown Our Soldiers current
• 07:5107:51, 27 November 2019 diff hist +51 N File:Austin Myers on leave somewhere in the South Pacific during WWII.jpg Category:Smoketown Our Soldiers current
• 07:4907:49, 27 November 2019 diff hist +690 N File:James William Rooney Sr. World War I Veteran.jpg World War I Veteran....James William Rooney Sr. better known as "Sarge" Rooney. This is my Pap Pap who was the father of James William Rooney Jr. better known as "Stuffy" Rooney and Raymond Lee Rooney better known as Pat Rooney and Mildred Nalley Walke... current
• 07:4607:46, 27 November 2019 diff hist +134 N File:Howard D. Rice, Sr, Veteran of World War I.jpg Howard D. Rice, Sr. Veteran of World War I. (Photo courtesy of Shirley Reinersman) Category:Smoketown Our Soldiers current
• 07:4507:45, 27 November 2019 diff hist +401 N File:Walter Crowl served in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.jpg Walter Crowl, father of Robert Crowl, Evelyn Parker, and Virginia Colgan. Walter served in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during WWI from 1918 to 1919 in LaRochelle, France. He worked on the railroad in Brunswick as a track man in 1909, then became a... current
• 07:4407:44, 27 November 2019 diff hist +135 N File:Brunswick soldier and his wife during World War I..jpg An unknown Brunswick soldier and his wife during World War I. (Courtesy Robert Day) Category:Smoketown Our Soldiers current
• 07:4207:42, 27 November 2019 diff hist +110 N File:Bessie & Edgar Shelton during WW1.jpg Bessie & Edgar Shelton during WW1 (Courtesy of Robert Day) Category:Smoketown Our Soldiers current
• 07:4107:41, 27 November 2019 diff hist +51 N File:Harry Sigafoose during World War I. Courtesy of Robert Day.jpg Category:Smoketown Our Soldiers current
• 07:4107:41, 27 November 2019 diff hist +144 N File:Albert Watkins Sigafoose during World War I..jpg Brunswick native Albert Watkins Sigafoose during World War I. (Photo courtesy of Robert Day) Category:Smoketown Our Soldiers current
• 07:3807:38, 27 November 2019 diff hist +290 N File:Joseph B. Payne in his World War I U.S. Army uniform.jpg Joseph B. Payne in his World War I U.S. Army uniform. He was Frederick County's Maryland State Delegate for years and a champion of Brunswick in the legislature from the early- to mid-20th Century. (Photo courtesy of John Roby Morsberger) [[Category:... current
• 07:3607:36, 27 November 2019 diff hist +335 N File:Veteran Day Parade 1996, James Rooney Jr and William Lowery.jpg 1996 Veteran Day Parade Two of the Parade Marshals that year was James (Stuffy) William Rooney Jr. ( My DAD) Korean War William Sherman Lowery World War I Photo's are 1996 Highlights in the 1997 Vet. Program Photos from the 1997 Veteran's Day Program... current
• 07:3407:34, 27 November 2019 diff hist +227 N File:Sherman Lowry presented in 2000 with the French Chevalier Legion of Honor medal.jpg Mr. Sherman Lowry presented in 2000 with the French Chevalier Legion of Honor medal for his participation in World War I on French soil. (Credit Brunswick History Commission) Category:Smoketown Our Soldiers current
• 07:3207:32, 27 November 2019 diff hist +288 N File:Memorial Day 1998 VFW Post.jpg 1998 VFW Post observed Memorial Day on its traditional day May 30th 1998) with a ceremony at Park Heights Cemetery. Post Commander at the time was Jeff Cauley. Newspaper clipping from the Brunswick Citizen (Courtesy of Rhonda L. Rooney) [[Category:Sm... current
• 07:3107:31, 27 November 2019 diff hist +1,197 N File:CAP Civilian Air Patrol..jpg What was going on here? This was the CAP Civilian Air Patrol. According to Jackie Ebersole, “I believe this location is out on Scheer Stadium property near where the dugout is on the third base side of Little League Field. Those people monitored the...
• 07:2807:28, 27 November 2019 diff hist +90 N File:Armistice Day celebration on Potomac and N. Virginia - 1918.jpg (Credit - Brunswick History Commission) Category:Smoketown Our Soldiers current
• 07:2707:27, 27 November 2019 diff hist +410 N File:John D. Garrott, MD (1807-1863).jpg Dr. Garrott was a Burkittsville physician, who tended to wounded and dying troops during the Battle of South Mountain in 1862. This painting has been donated to the South Mountain Heritage Society Museum in Burkittsville. The museum is located in the o... current
• 07:2407:24, 27 November 2019 diff hist +158 N File:Charles Williams of Leesburg Va., father of Laura Sigafoose.jpg Confederate soldier, Charles Williams of Leesburg Va., father of Laura Sigafoose. (Courtesy of Robert Day) Category:Smoketown Our Soldiers current
• 07:0507:05, 27 November 2019 diff hist +42 N File:Honor Roll 2019, First Term from The Frederick News-Post, November 27, 2019.jpg Category:Middle School current

26 November 2019

• 22:0222:02, 26 November 2019 diff hist +189 N File:Thomas S Watson. Confederate Army Co. D, 6th Virginia cavalry.jpg Thomas S Watson. Confederate Army Co. D, 6th Virginia cavalry (Clarke Cavalry). August 1861 to April 1865. (Photo courtesy of Tom Watson) Category:Smoketown Our Soldiers current
• 21:5921:59, 26 November 2019 diff hist +38 File:Sergeant George Hickman (1844-1911), U.S. Union Army.jpg No edit summary current
• 21:5921:59, 26 November 2019 diff hist +1,120 N File:Sergeant George Hickman (1844-1911), U.S. Union Army.jpg Sergeant George Hickman (1844-1911), U.S. Union Army, Independent Loudon Rangers in a painting owned by his grandson Gene Bowers. The Independent Loudoun Virginia Rangers were the only organized body of troops from Virginia to fight for the Union Army...
• 21:5721:57, 26 November 2019 diff hist +750 N File:Veterans Day Parade 1968 - VFW.jpg Why we have Veterans' Day - Brunswick VFW in the 1968 Parade On the front row left are Charles Gross (1st from left) and Leroy Herbert Stewart (3rd from left), both World War I veterans. Several ladies in the crowd have been identified as: (R-L) Dena... current
• 21:5421:54, 26 November 2019 diff hist −6 File:Veterans' Day Parade - 1968, Leroy Herbert Stewart.jpg No edit summary current
• 21:5421:54, 26 November 2019 diff hist +41 N Category:Smoketown Our Soldiers Created page with "Category:Smoketown History Collection " current
• 21:5321:53, 26 November 2019 diff hist +266 N File:Veterans' Day Parade - 1968, Leroy Herbert Stewart.jpg Veterans' Day Parade - 1968 Leroy Herbert Stewart, veteran of World War I, is on the bottom right. (From the Myer Kaplon Photo Collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown History Collection
• 21:4921:49, 26 November 2019 diff hist +277 N File:Bank note from Peoples National Bank 1929.jpg Bank note from Peoples National Bank in Brunswick, Maryland in the fateful year of 1929 when the Great Depression started. See bank president Harry Y George's signature on the lower right. (Courtesy of Nancy Merchant Langley) [[Category:Smoketown B... current
• 21:4721:47, 26 November 2019 diff hist +459 N File:Levetta Kelley Thomas (left) was the first operator on the Brunswick telephone exchange.jpg Levetta Kelley Thomas (left) was the first operator on the Brunswick telephone exchange. Here she is with her team in what we think is the 1920s. Having an efficient telephone system was crucial to the success of a railroad town. Mrs. Thomas was 17 wh... current
• 21:4421:44, 26 November 2019 diff hist +280 N File:New York Hill (9th Avenue) in 1906..jpg A view of 9th Avenue, better known as New York Hill, in 1906. The Methodist Church is on the right. The hill was given its name because a New York-based company built the homes for the B&O railroad. (Photo courtesy of Phil Graves) [[Category:Smoketow... current
• 21:4221:42, 26 November 2019 diff hist +328 N File:Nell & Ed Ault in front of their home on 420 Ninth Avenue, circa 1900.jpg Nell & Ed Ault in front of their home on 420 Ninth Avenue, circa 1900. This was before New York Hill was built out by the B&O Railroad. It's the current home of Norma June Wigfield, who is only the 2nd owner of this nearly 120-year-old house. (Photo c... current
• 21:4021:40, 26 November 2019 diff hist +234 N File:Dr. Levin West Home on the corner of A Street and 1st Avenue.jpg Home of Dr. Levin West on the corner of A Street and 1st Avenue in the early days of Brunswick. Later owned by Mayor Jim Cummings and family. (Photo credit - Brunswick Heritage Museum) Category:Smoketown Beginnings current
• 21:3921:39, 26 November 2019 diff hist +354 N File:House on South Maryland Avenue was built by William Lynch Gross Circa 1890.jpg This big old house on S. Maryland Avenue was built by William Lynch Gross for his family sometime around 1890 next to his general store. The old store could have been classified as one of the first "shopping centers" at the time the B&O railroad built... current
• 21:3621:36, 26 November 2019 diff hist +576 N File:West Potomac Street, Brunswick in the Model T era.jpg West Potomac Street, Brunswick in the Model T era. Many of these homes on the left side were built around 1914-15 by Harry Y. George, Sr., including his home, which remains in the family today. The houses across the street were commissioned by the B&O.... current
• 21:3221:32, 26 November 2019 diff hist +578 N File:Brunswick Street - West End houses built by the B&O railroad..jpg Brunswick Street West End houses built by the B&O railroad. The railroad made Brunswick a company town as the B&O built houses, businesses and donated land for many of the town's churches to serve townspeople. Much of the old west end was originally th... current
• 21:3021:30, 26 November 2019 diff hist +912 N File:Maple Avenue, towards the square corner and 1st Baptist Church.jpg A postcard view looking up First Street, which is now Maple Avenue, towards the square corner and 1st Baptist Church. At the time, this was the entrance to town as the road came down from the old bridge, past the mill, and over the tracks. This may hav... current