MUSEUMS

FREDERICK COUNTY

"Shoot if you must, this old gray head,
But spare your country's flag," she said.
These words of Barbara Fritchie were popularized by John Greenleaf Whittier in his 1863 poem which bears her name.

Brunswick Railroad Museum
40 West Potomac St.
Brunswick, MD
(301) 834-7100
web: www.bhs.edu/rrmus/rrmus.html

Catoctin Furnace
12627 Furnace Road
Thurmont, MD 21788
(301) 271-2306
web: www.dnr.state.md.us/publiclands/cunninghamhistory.html

Delaplaine Visual Arts Education Center,
40 South Carroll St.
Frederick, MD 21701
(301) 698-0656
e-mail: dvac@erols.com
web: www.delaplaine.org

Frederick Historic Sites & Consortium
19 East Church St.
Frederick, MD 21701
(301) 663-8687
web: www.visitfrederick.org

George Alfred Townsend Museum (Civil War journalist), & War Correspondents Arch
Gathland State Park
Burkittsville, MD
(301) 791-4656
web: www.dnr.state.md.us/publiclands/western/gathland.html

Hessian Barracks (Revolutionary War prisoner-of-war barracks)
101 Clark Place
Frederick, MD 21701
(301) 663-8687

Monocacy National Battlefield (Civil War)
4801 Urbana Pike
Frederick, MD 21704
(301) 662-3515
e-mail: Cathy_Beeler@nps.gov
web: www.nps.gov/mono/

Mount Saint Mary's College (Catholic history)
College Lane
Emmitsburg, MD 21727
(301) 447-6868, (301) 447-5397
web: www.msmary.edu

National Museum of Civil War Medicine
100 Adventist Drive (temporary location)
Frederick, MD 21701
(301) 695-1864
e-mail: museum@civilwarmed.org
web: www.civilwarmed.org

National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
333 South Seton Ave.
Emmitsburg, MD 21727
(301) 447-6606
web: www.setonshrine.org

Roger Brooke Taney Home & Francis Scott Key Museum
Frederick, MD 21701
(301) 663-3540

Rose Hill Manor Park Children's Museum, Farm Museum, & Carriage Museum
Frederick, MD 21701
(301) 694-1648/50
web: www.co.frederick.md.us/parks/rosehill.html

Schifferstadt Architectural Museum
1110 Rosemont Ave.
Frederick, MD 21701
(301) 663-3885

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