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Wise Farm and Fox Gap Sites
The Wise Farmstead and
Fox Gap Portion of the South
Mountain Battlefield.
The Wise Farmstead (ca 1858 to 1879) was the home and farm of Daniel Wise and
his family, located in a beautiful ridge top setting on the crest of the Blue
Ridge in central Maryland.
May 2003,
ASM Field School
at the Winslow Site
A late Woodland native American village site. Who were
these people, and why did they come here, why did they disappear, and where
did they go? Many questions and many eager volunteers seeking the
answers.
Monocacy National Battlefield, Best Farm Site
A Civil War battlefield
and encampment site. A French Carribbean
family with perhaps the most slaves in the County. A barn built unlike
any other North of Louisiana.
Also native American sites.
Antietam Battlefield - Civil War
Metal detecting for
artifacts on the battlefield, and the replanting of the 1860's orchard with
the heirloom apple varieties that were cut to the ground by bullets during
the battle.
Beatty
Cramer House Initial Exploration
One of Frederick's
earliest remaining historic structures and unique in Maryland for its construction
styles. A rare example of Dutch architectural features brought down
from New York
state by a widowed woman and her large family. Test pits were completed
to aid in placing new parking as the site is restored and opened more
frequently to the public.
The
Search for the Lost Monocacy Log Church
Long before the
clustered spires, a fabled, simple log structure served as the focal point of
religious life in Frederick
County. A few
clues from the reports of missionary Palantine
Ministers hint at its location without any certainty. From the old
German diaries we glean a few clues and believe we have a sense of where the
church may have been located, and its not where
everyone seems to believe from local markers. But ground penetrating
radar yields no further proof.
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