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From: "John Ashbury" <>
Subject: [MDFR] History Moment - 8-12
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 08:43:49 -0400


On August 12, 1785, Samuel Emmit laid out the town of
Emmitsburg.

On August 12, 1831, John Ritchie, who would become
chief judge of The Sixth Judicial Circuit, was born in
Frederick, the son of Dr. John Ritchie. He died October
27, 1887.

On August 12, 1855, Bethel African Methodist Episcopal
Church on East Third Street in Frederick was dedicated.
It later became Quinn Chapel AME.

On August 12, 1920, the Rotary Club of Frederick was
founded by Charles C. Carty at a meeting in his store at
48 East Patrick Street, Frederick, now the home of The
National Museum of Civil War Medicine.

On August 12, 1927, the new Frederick Municipal Park
was renamed in honor of Joseph Dill Baker.

On August 12, 1929, the Hotel Braddock at Braddock
Heights was destroyed by fire.

On August 12, 1960, a helicopter carrying President
Dwight David Eisenhower made an unscheduled landing
on a Thurmont ball field.

On August 12, 1991, Joseph Michael Perla, 29, pleaded
guilty in Frederick County Circuit Court to setting a fire
that destroyed the Loy's Station Covered Bridge on Old
Frederick Road east of Thurmont. The bridge was
eventually rebuilt.

If anyone can add information to these History Moments,
or would like to suggest an item for another calendar day,
please contact me privately.

John W. Ashbury
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Walkersville, MD 21793


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