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From: "John Ashbury" <>
Subject: [MDFR] History Moment - 11-20-07
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 04:51:18 -0500


On November 20, 1798, John Frederick Amelung, who brought artisans to
Frederick County from Germany to make what has become known as some of the
finest glass made in colonial America, died at the home of his daughter,
Sophia Amelung Volkman, on Bank Street in Baltimore. He was 57.


On November 20, 2002, Mayor Jennifer Dougherty and the Frederick City Board
of Aldermen voted in executive session to sell a 10-foot wide strip of land
in Memorial Grounds Park, at the northwest corner of North Bentz Street and
West Second Street, to private interests because it contained a monument of
The Ten Commandments. The American Civil Liberties Union had filed suit in
August asking the court to order the removal of the monument because its
location on government owned property violated the U. S. Constitution.




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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