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From: "John Ashbury" <>
Subject: History Moment - 8-10-06
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 06:36:30 -0400


August 10, 1753, King George II granted land to John Hawkins. Berlin, now
Brunswick, was begun on this land in 1787.

On August 10, 1820, Enoch Louis Lowe, the youngest governor in Maryland
history, and a resident of East Second Street in Frederick as an adult, was
born.


On August 10, 1826, the first graduation exercises from "St. John's Female
Benevolent and First Frederick Free School" on East Second Street was
conducted.




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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