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18 December 2019

• 13:2913:29, 18 December 2019 diff hist +399 N File:Country butchering on a farm.jpg Country butchering on a farm somewhere around Brunswick once upon a time. This is the season. Some families butchered on Thanksgiving Day. The men did the work outside while the women prepared a huge feast inside after they were done. (From the Myer... current
• 13:2613:26, 18 December 2019 diff hist +470 N File:Preparing the Thanksgiving turkey.jpg Preparing the Thanksgiving turkey years ago. 1950s? This photo was part of a series taken by Myer Kaplon during a country butchering on a farm somewhere around Brunswick. It was typical for local farmers to perform country butcherings outside on Thank... current
• 13:2513:25, 18 December 2019 diff hist +251 N File:Ida Brown with the ladies in the kitchen.jpg Ida Brown with the ladies in the kitchen during a country butchering at the Brown farm. (From the Myer Kaplon photo collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown Farm Community current
• 13:2313:23, 18 December 2019 diff hist +363 N File:Ida and Lev Brown farm Circa 1953.jpg Preparing for a country butchering at the Ida and Lev Brown farm. This is believed to be pre-1953 since that was the year the barn in the background was destroyed by fire, according to Pamela Compher. (From the Myer Kaplon photo collection at the Brun... current
• 13:2113:21, 18 December 2019 diff hist +304 N File:Pony and mare in a farm field.jpg A pony and mare in a farm field somewhere in and around Brunswick. Note the riding bit in the horse's mouth. Can anyone guess where this is? (From the Myer Kaplon photo collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries)... current
• 13:2013:20, 18 December 2019 diff hist +181 N File:Fall sight around Frederick County.jpg This was a familiar Fall sight around Frederick County back in the day. Is it still? (Photography by Walker R. Smith of Doubs) Category:Smoketown Farm Community current
• 13:1913:19, 18 December 2019 diff hist +246 N File:Poonie & Gerald Wade show off their tomato vines..jpg In the Summertime way back when, Poonie & Gerald Wade show off their tomato vines. (From the Myer Kaplon photo collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown Farm Community current
• 13:1813:18, 18 December 2019 diff hist +230 N File:Back yard farm animals in the 1970s.jpg Some back yard farm animals in the 1970s. The pig looks friendly. (From the Myer Kaplon photo collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown Farm Community current
• 13:1613:16, 18 December 2019 diff hist +77 N File:Livestock at the Great Frederick Fair - 2010.jpg (Photo by Peter Wenner) Category:Smoketown Farm Community current
• 13:1513:15, 18 December 2019 diff hist +76 N File:Old barn on Gene Hemp Rd and Steiner's Hill - April 2010.jpg (Photo by Peter Wenner) Category:Smoketown Farm Community current
• 13:1313:13, 18 December 2019 diff hist +201 N File:On Rt.180 in Jefferson across from the Valley Elementary School - April 2011.jpg (Photo by Peter Wenner) Daphne H. Sigler: This barn sits on the property of the late Rudy Lovell, father of former County Commissioner John Lovell. Category:Smoketown Farm Community current
• 13:1013:10, 18 December 2019 diff hist +77 N File:Allen farm on the road between Jefferson and Broad Run - April 2011.jpg (Photo by Peter Wenner) Category:Smoketown Farm Community current
• 13:0913:09, 18 December 2019 diff hist +76 N File:Rt. 180 Jefferson - April 2011.jpg (Photo by Peter Wenner) Category:Smoketown Farm Community current
• 13:0513:05, 18 December 2019 diff hist +76 N File:Middletown Valley on the road between Jefferson and Broad Run - April 2011.jpg (Photo by Peter Wenner) Category:Smoketown Farm Community current
• 13:0413:04, 18 December 2019 diff hist +76 N File:Wanderin farm on Olive School Road - April 2011.jpg (Photo by Peter Wenner) Category:Smoketown Farm Community current
• 13:0013:00, 18 December 2019 diff hist +134 N File:Road between Jefferson and Broad Run - April 2011.jpg On the road between Jefferson and Broad Run - April 2011 (Photo by Peter Wenner) Category:Smoketown Farm Community current
• 12:5812:58, 18 December 2019 diff hist +132 N File:Flook house in Petersville - September 2010.jpg The former Flook house in Petersville - September 2010 (Photo by Peter Wenner) Category:Smoketown Farm Community current
• 10:4110:41, 18 December 2019 diff hist +333 N File:Savage-Leigh Farms on Rt. 17 - September 2010.jpg Savage-Leigh Farms on Rt. 17 headed to Burkittsville - September 2010 (Photo by Peter Wenner) Daphne H. Sigler: It was owned before the Savage's by a Roy Bittle. He rented it to David Pry. The road the farm is on was once named Bittle Road before it... current
• 10:3910:39, 18 December 2019 diff hist +76 N File:Lakin Farm on Lander Rd - April 2011.jpg (Photo by Peter Wenner) Category:Smoketown Farm Community current
• 10:3810:38, 18 December 2019 diff hist +152 N File:Steiner's Hill below the old barn on Gene Hemp Rd.jpg Farm Gate, Steiner's Hill below the old barn on Gene Hemp Rd - April 2011 (Photo by Peter Wenner) Category:Smoketown Farm Community current
• 10:3710:37, 18 December 2019 diff hist +116 N File:Steiner's Hill - April 2011.jpg Bottom of Steiner's Hill - April 2011 (Photo by Peter Wenner) Category:Smoketown Farm Community current
• 10:3510:35, 18 December 2019 diff hist +76 N File:Stockman Farm...Lander & Frye Rd - April 2011.jpg (Photo by Peter Wenner) Category:Smoketown Farm Community current
• 10:3410:34, 18 December 2019 diff hist +1,235 N File:Potomac Water Gap in the Blue Ridge Mountains.jpg Looking toward the Potomac Water Gap in the Blue Ridge Mountains from Mountville Road between Jefferson and Sunnyside in 2013. The gap is a familiar sight to us locals, located at the intersection of the states of Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland.... current
• 10:3210:32, 18 December 2019 diff hist +93 N File:Barleywood Barn, the Claggett farm in Petersville.jpg (Photo by Peter Wenner - November 2007) Category:Smoketown Farm Community current
• 10:3010:30, 18 December 2019 diff hist +352 N File:Smith Family - Frank, Kitty, Sherre and Marvin on Claggett Farm.jpg This is an early to mid-1960s photo of Frank Smith with wife Kitty and children Sheree and Marvin on the Claggett farm he operated for years. The farm is on Jefferson Pike in Petersville. (From the Myer Kaplon photo collection at the Brunswick Communi... current
• 10:2910:29, 18 December 2019 diff hist +621 N File:Summers Family - Bill Summers, Jim Summers, Tom Summers, Mark Summers, Mrs. Bernie Summers..jpg The Summers family of Jefferson watching a parade in Brunswick in 1970. Photo was taken across from the Kaplon Building on S. Maryland Avenue. From left to right: Mr. Bill Summers, Jim Summers, Tom Summers, Mark Summers, Mrs. Bernie Summers. Bill was... current
• 10:2710:27, 18 December 2019 diff hist +102 N File:Doty Remsburg honored by Dairy Hall of Fame in 1981.jpg (Newspaper clipping courtesy of Rhonda L. Rooney) Category:Smoketown Farm Community current
• 10:2510:25, 18 December 2019 diff hist +85 N File:Doty and Helen Remsburg's Farm, (Remcrest) Jefferson - Winter 2010.jpg (Photo courtesy of Gloria Crowl) Category:Smoketown Farm Community current
• 10:0710:07, 18 December 2019 diff hist +76 N File:Shafdon Farm, Gapland Rd. near Burkittsville.jpg (Photo by Peter Wenner) Category:Smoketown Farm Community current
• 10:0610:06, 18 December 2019 diff hist +135 N File:Shafdon Farm, Gapland Road April 2011.jpg Shafdon Farm, Gapland Rd. near Burkittsville - April 2011 (Photo by Peter Wenner) Category:Smoketown Farm Community current
• 10:0610:06, 18 December 2019 diff hist +261 N File:Needwood Farms owned by the Pry family for generations.jpg Needwood Farms owned by the Pry family for generations. South Mountain is in the background. If anybody tells you the Blue Ridge Mountains aren't blue, here's proof. (Photo by Peter Wenner - September 2010) Category:Smoketown Farm Community current
• 10:0410:04, 18 December 2019 diff hist +262 N File:Needwood Farms on Rt 17 headed to Burkittsville - September 2010.jpg Needwood Farms on Rt 17 headed to Burkittsville - September 2010 This is the old farm and home place of the Pry family. Four Generations of Pry's worked and raised cattle on this farm. (Photo by Peter Wenner) Category:Smoketown Farm Community current
• 10:0210:02, 18 December 2019 diff hist +478 N File:Needwood Farms on the original estate of colonial Maryland Governor Thomas Sim Lee.jpg View of the farmhouse in winter at Needwood Farms on the original estate of colonial Maryland Governor Thomas Sim Lee. Several generations of the Pry families have lived and farmed here. According to Gail Pry, "the home was built for Governor Lee's gra... current
• 09:5909:59, 18 December 2019 diff hist +143 N File:Shafer farm on Routes 340 and 17 after the Blizzard of 2016.jpg The Shafer farm on Routes 340 and 17 after the Blizzard of 2016.. (Photo by Jerry Knight) Category:Smoketown Farm Community current
• 09:5809:58, 18 December 2019 diff hist +257 N File:Rt 180 Photo October 2007.jpg This October 2007 photo was taken from Rt. 180 before you get to the Burkittsville Road crossing. The Fall colors of South Mountain up above the Shafer Farm were starting to show. (Photo by Peter Wenner) Category:Smoketown Farm Community current
• 09:5509:55, 18 December 2019 diff hist +166 N File:Eagle farm on Rt. 180 near Knoxville across from the former Hope and Enfield farms, 2011.jpg The Eagle farm on Rt. 180 near Knoxville across from the former Hope and Enfield farms. (Photo by Peter Wenner) Category:Smoketown Farm Community current
• 09:5309:53, 18 December 2019 diff hist +195 N File:Enfield homestead on the farm on Rt. 180.jpg The Enfield homestead on the farm on Rt. 180 in April 2011 during the early days of Brunswick Crossing construction. (Photo by Peter Wenner) Category:Smoketown Farm Community current
• 09:5109:51, 18 December 2019 diff hist +40 File:Peace in the Valley.jpg No edit summary current
• 09:5009:50, 18 December 2019 diff hist +219 N File:Peace in the Valley.jpg After the flood, it's good to look at what peace in the valley looks like. This photo was taken by Lila Wenner in the then wide open Hope and Enfield farmland in the '90s. (Photo courtesy of Peter Wenner)
• 09:2909:29, 18 December 2019 diff hist +525 N File:Cattle Car.jpg A cattle car? We believe this photo was taken by Myer Kaplon on the old Shafer property on Petersville Rd that Bub Eury used to farm as it seems the right distance from South Mountain. Mr. Kaplon always walked to and from work at the store on Saturda... current
• 09:2809:28, 18 December 2019 diff hist +421 N File:Shafer property where Bub Eury farmed.jpg What's this horse thinking about as these cows graze on its hay? This is the old Shafer property where Bub Eury farmed before Rt. 17 was built in the mid-1960s. See Dr. JGF Smith and Watson houses on Petersville Rd. where Brunswick ends and Rosemont be... current
• 09:2609:26, 18 December 2019 diff hist +250 N File:Milking cows the old fashioned way.jpg Milking cows the old fashioned way. Do you know the men or where this might have been? (From the Myer Kaplon photo collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown Farm Community current
• 09:2309:23, 18 December 2019 diff hist +250 N File:C.F. Wenner farm was sold on October 18, 2013 last pieces sold.jpg The last piece of the C.F. Wenner farm was sold on October 18, 2013. Five generations of the Wenner family lived on this land, which was the last working farm in Brunswick. (Photo by Peter Wenner) Category:Smoketown Farm Community current
• 09:2209:22, 18 December 2019 diff hist +560 N File:Brunswick winter wonderland dressed in snow Circa 1960s.jpg Brunswick winter wonderland dressed in snow. This view is looking towards the hollow between Maple Avenue and 2nd Avenue in the 1960s. Souder Road is the crossing on the top of the hill. The bank barn on the Wenner farm in the foreground is long gone... current
• 09:2009:20, 18 December 2019 diff hist +363 N File:Wenner milk barn on N. Maple Avenue Circa 1978.jpg Old Wenner milk barn on N. Maple Avenue in ruins, circa 1978. This was the original site of the library. According to Robert Foster, the barn was finally taken down by the Brunswick Volunteer Fire department around 1983. (Photo courtesy of the Brunsw... current
• 09:1909:19, 18 December 2019 diff hist +438 N File:Cows at the trough, through the barbed wire fence..jpg A view of cows at the trough, through the barbed wire fence. This appears to have been taken on Souder Road as the house on the hill looks like Bill and Eugenia Deener's longtime home. If the location is correct, Buck Connor farmed this patch of land... current
• 09:0509:05, 18 December 2019 diff hist +545 N File:Bubby Eury farmed this property for the Shafer family on Petersville Rd.jpg Bubby Eury farmed this property for the Shafer family on Petersville Rd. before it was razed for Rt. 17 in the mid-1960s. It's approximately on the spot of the Faith Assembly of God Church on the corner of Souder Rd and Rt. 17. This photo was taken in... current
• 09:0409:04, 18 December 2019 diff hist +476 N File:Ann Wenner learning to ride while pulling a plow.jpg Ann Wenner learning to ride while pulling a plow under a watchful eye on the family farm in the early 1940s. Across Petersville Road, which was then a narrow dirt road, is the old Shafer farm that was razed to make way for MD Rt. 17 in 1964. In the di...
• 09:0209:02, 18 December 2019 diff hist +523 N File:Wenner, Hope and Enfield farms Circa 1940.jpg It doesn't seem that long ago that there were 3 farms within the current city limits of Brunswick. This is a view from the Wenner farm that butted up against Petersville Road and extended down North Maple Avenue, looking towards the Hope and Enfield fa... current
• 09:0009:00, 18 December 2019 diff hist +310 N File:Jim Eury teaches Ann Wenner and Mack Van Pelt how to ride plow horses.jpg In this photo, farmer Jim Eury teaches Ann Wenner and Mack Van Pelt how to ride plow horses on the Wenner farm. This photo was taken in the early 1940s and looks to have been behind the Wenner home on Petersville Road. (Photo courtesy of Ann Wenner Os... current