December 5, 2025

Rattlesnake Run; Name Origin

A few years after Elmwood mansion house was built the stone house was erected on Cold Spring Farm– where the new barn is now being built! This was also most substantially constructed, designed to stand for […]
August 14, 2024

Harwood, Painful Injuries from Fall.

Mr. Clinton Harwood fell from a building he was erecting for Mr. Jesse Cook, near Bakerton, and sustained painful injuries. Dr. S. T. Knott rendered the necessary attention.
May 1, 2024

Federal Prisoners from area picked up; headed for Wheeling

Federal Prisoners. Captain Dawson, the U. S. deputy Marshal left here on last Saturday with a number of prisoners for Wheeling for the federal court. One was Nick Carter, No. 3, an Italian from the quarries […]
December 10, 2023

The Friday Murder Mystery

THE HEARING AT HAGERSTOWN– DETAILS OF THE CRIME, ETC.[Reported for the Baltimore Sun.] HAGERSTOWN, MD., June 27, 1877.– James Gardner and J. W. Grove, who are in the county jail at this place on suspicion of […]
November 7, 2023

Death: Dennis Hawkins

In this town, on Thursday morning last, at the residence of Mr. Joseph M. Cook, of Consumption, Mr. DENNIS HAWKINS, aged about 40 years. He was a native of Ireland– has a wife, daughter and brother […]