tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-274699752024-03-12T20:11:56.132-04:00Falmanac: The Fallston Almanac of American HistoryFalmanac: The Fallston Almanac of American HistoryUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4155125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27469975.post-21857195191332351242022-07-04T18:12:00.009-04:002022-07-04T18:14:06.598-04:00Maryland and the road to independence: Charles Carroll of Carrollton
(Baltimore Sun) Charles Carroll of Carrollton wasn’t in Philadelphia when the Second Continental Congress voted to break from Great Britain on July 2, 1776, nor was he there on July 4 when Thomas Jefferson’s draft of the Declaration of Independence was ratified. He wouldn’t get there and add his name to the document’s signers for some weeks, but when it came to the idea that the 13 colonies mustUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27469975.post-22821695950462274372022-06-16T01:56:00.003-04:002022-06-16T01:57:31.955-04:00Mary Katherine Goddard
(Maryland Women's Hall of Fame) Mary Katherine Goddard, printer, newspaper publisher, and postmaster, was born in Connecticut on June 16, 1738. She lived in Baltimore, Maryland from 1774 until her death at age seventy-eight, in 1816.
... Mary Katherine proved to be a steady, impersonal newspaper editor and during the Revolution she was usually Baltimore’s only printer. From her press, in JanuaryUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27469975.post-87348972110572134272022-06-14T11:22:00.001-04:002022-06-14T11:22:38.347-04:00Flag Day
(LoC) On June 14, 1777, the Continental
Congress approved the design of a national flag. Since 1916, when President
Woodrow Wilson issued a presidential proclamation establishing a national Flag
Day on June 14, Americans have commemorated the adoption of the Stars and
Stripes by celebrating June 14 as Flag Day. Prior to 1916, many localities and a
few states had been celebrating the day forUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27469975.post-74802319475348605162022-06-13T03:25:00.001-04:002022-06-13T03:25:06.407-04:00Second Battle of Winchester
(Wikipedia) The Second Battle of Winchester was fought between June 13 and June 15, 1863 in Frederick County and Winchester, Virginia as part of the Gettysburg Campaign during the American Civil War. As Confederate Lieutenant General Richard S. Ewell moved north through the Shenandoah Valley in the direction of Pennsylvania, his corps defeated the Union Army garrison commanded by Major General Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27469975.post-67907737980076628262022-06-13T03:05:00.001-04:002022-06-13T03:05:12.017-04:00‘The Wire’ Stands Alone
(NYTimes) “The Wire” premiered on HBO on June 2, 2002. In the two decades since, its reputation has only grown, as has its audience. It is one of those series, like the original “Star Trek,” that future generations will refuse to believe struggled with low ratings during its entire run. (Let alone that it was nominated for an absurd two Emmys, and won exactly none.) Continued
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27469975.post-33885446039307812252022-06-10T01:57:00.004-04:002022-06-10T01:57:59.995-04:00Ken Singleton
(Wikipedia) Kenneth Wayne Singleton (born June 10, 1947) is a retired American Major League Baseball outfielder/designated hitter and current television announcer. ... During his ten years in Baltimore, Singleton played the best baseball of his career as the Orioles won two pennants, in 1979 and 1983, and won the 1983 World Series. His batting average of .328 in 1977, good for third in the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27469975.post-63172672781784595972022-06-01T11:34:00.003-04:002022-06-01T11:35:56.669-04:00James Buchanan
(Wikipedia) James Buchanan, Jr. (April 23, 1791 – June 1, 1868) was the 15th President of the United States from 1857–1861 and the last to be born in the 18th century.
To date he is the only President from the state of Pennsylvania and the only to remain a lifelong bachelor. As President he was a "doughface", a Northerner with Southern sympathies who battled with Stephen A. Douglas for the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27469975.post-42198332989722108352022-05-28T08:26:00.003-04:002022-05-28T08:26:24.019-04:00Battle of Jumonville Glen
(Wikipedia) The Battle of Jumonville Glen, also known as the Jumonville affair, was the opening battle of the French and Indian War fought on May 28, 1754 near what is present-day Uniontown in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. George Washington had been sent to the Ohio Country, an area then under dispute between British and French colonists, as a British emissary in December of 1753, to tell the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27469975.post-73224737998038958822022-05-23T10:23:00.004-04:002022-05-23T10:26:55.183-04:00Marietta's forested ruins
"The Musselman - Vesta Furnace was built in 1868 by Henry Musselman and Henry Miller Watts, both from Marietta. It was the last of the eight anthracite-fired hot blast iron furnaces to be built on the river floodplain between Columbia and Marietta and the last complete blast furnace to be constructed in Lancaster County.... The Lavino Company owned the furnace property until 1949, but Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27469975.post-9818315705965303562022-05-22T03:42:00.003-04:002022-05-22T03:42:53.855-04:00Before I got rid of my Maryland accentUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27469975.post-80036106484857503532022-05-22T03:41:00.003-04:002022-05-22T03:41:51.115-04:00United Steelworkers Founded
(Wikipedia) ... Early attempts to organize steelworkers encountered resistance, even violence. An example is the Homestead Strike. In 1889, after a strike at a mill in Homestead, Pennsylvania, the Carnegie Steel Company signed a contract with the workers. Three years later, however, the mill cut wages, triggering another strike. Management sent in 300 Pinkerton detectives to break the strike, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27469975.post-9363223168907295192022-05-19T10:17:00.000-04:002022-05-19T10:17:08.216-04:00Mr. Johns Hopkins
(Wikipedia) Johns Hopkins (May 19, 1795 – December 24, 1873) was an American entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist who lived most of his life in Baltimore, Maryland. His bequests founded numerous institutions bearing his name, most notably Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins University (including its academic divisions such as Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, Johns Hopkins School of Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27469975.post-51915810736340576992022-05-17T02:51:00.002-04:002022-05-17T02:51:28.965-04:00Fissel Schoolhouse
Glen Rock, Pennsylvania.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27469975.post-11098952652107402532022-05-17T02:47:00.002-04:002022-05-17T02:47:24.763-04:00John Gunby
(Wikipedia) John Gunby (March 10, 1745 – May 17, 1807) was an American planter and soldier from Somerset County, Maryland whom is considered by many to be "one of the most gallant officers of the Maryland Line under Gen. Smallwood". He entered service volunteering as a minuteman in 1775 and fought for the American cause until the end earning praise as probably the most brilliant soldier whom Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27469975.post-91187211756458327232022-05-12T00:51:00.004-04:002022-05-12T00:51:53.584-04:00Battle of Spotsylvania Court House
The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, sometimes simply referred to as the Battle of Spotsylvania, was the second major battle in Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign of the American Civil War. The battle was fought in the Rapidan-Rappahannock river area of central Virginia, a region where more than 100,000 men on both sides fell between 1862 and 1864.
The battle was fought May 8Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27469975.post-33909358277817656532022-05-12T00:44:00.008-04:002022-05-12T00:44:57.295-04:00Trappe Church
Text from the marker:
Capt. Angus Greme, one of two officers in Lafayette's army who, according to tradition, were so struck with the view from here that they vowed to return after the revolution. Greme did settle nearby with his family and in 1850 he was buried beside Trappe Church, then a chapel of ease (established 1760) of St. George's Episcopal Parish. Present stone building dates Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27469975.post-58596486505570063012022-05-11T00:18:00.003-04:002022-05-11T00:18:32.221-04:00Samuel Ringgold
(Wikipedia) Samuel B. Ringgold (1796 – May 11, 1846) was an artillery officer in the United States Army who was noted for several military innovations which caused him to be called the "Father of Modern Artillery." He was also, famously, the first U.S. officer to fall in the Mexican-American War, perishing from wounds inflicted during the Battle of Palo Alto.
Ringgold was the son of Samuel Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27469975.post-32781496990245272822022-05-08T03:54:00.003-04:002022-05-08T03:56:24.379-04:00Mike Cuellar
(Wikipedia) Miguel Ángel Cuellar Santana (KWAY-ar; May 8, 1937 – April 2, 2010) was a Cuban professional baseball player. He played for 15 seasons in Major League Baseball as a left-handed pitcher in 1959 and from 1964 through 1977, most prominently as a member of the Baltimore Orioles who won the American League (AL) pennant in each of Cuellar's first three seasons with the team. During that Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27469975.post-7078210430786599922022-05-05T01:25:00.001-04:002022-05-05T01:25:06.943-04:00Cinco de Mayo
(LoC) Mexican troops under General Ignacio Zaragoza successfully defended the town of Puebla on May 5, 1862, temporarily halting France's efforts to establish a puppet regime in Mexico. With the U.S. absorbed by the Civil War, Emperor Napoleon III hoped to create a French sphere of influence in Latin America. The victory is commemorated as a national holiday in Mexico. The Mexican victory at Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27469975.post-24893126765182240332022-05-03T00:35:00.002-04:002022-05-03T00:36:20.202-04:00Samuel Ogle
(WIKIPEDIA) Samuel Ogle (c. 1694 – May 3, 1752) was the Provincial Governor of Maryland from 1731 to 1732, 1733 to 1742, and 1746/1747 to 1752.
... Under Ogle's leadership Maryland quickly became engaged in a border dispute with Pennsylvania. Several settlers were taken prisoners on both sides and Penn sent a committee to Governor Ogle to resolve the situation. Rioting broke out in the disputedUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27469975.post-19880717712170501382022-05-02T02:23:00.005-04:002022-05-02T02:37:12.493-04:00 The Great American Lawn: How the Dream Was ManufacturedUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27469975.post-69596901439797959852022-04-30T08:10:00.005-04:002022-04-30T08:12:34.615-04:00Coxey's Army reaches Washington, D.C.
(Wikipedia) Coxey's Army was a protest march by unemployed workers from the United States, led by the populist Jacob Coxey. They marched on Washington D.C. in 1894, the second year of a four-year economic depression that was the worst in United States history to that time. Officially named the Commonweal in Christ, its nickname came from its leader and was more enduring. It was the first Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27469975.post-21273337753077200342022-04-26T00:39:00.004-04:002022-04-26T00:40:00.524-04:00Some Chesapeake Bay steamboatsUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27469975.post-45895847428008283202022-04-25T02:47:00.002-04:002022-04-26T00:40:36.964-04:00Baltimore and Potomac Railroad
(Wikipedia) - The Baltimore and Potomac Rail Road was part of the Pennsylvania Railroad's main line from Baltimore, Maryland southwest to Washington, DC. It is now part of Amtrak's Northeast Corridor; freight is handled by Norfolk Southern. ContinuedUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27469975.post-1327991385122232322022-04-22T08:22:00.003-04:002022-04-22T08:23:02.163-04:00John Waters
(Wikipedia) John Samuel Waters, Jr. (born April 22, 1946) is an American filmmaker, actor, writer, personality, visual artist and art collector, who rose to fame in the early 1970s for his transgressive cult films. He had a major mainstream hit in 1988 with the movie "Hairspray" starring Divine and introducing Ricki Lake.
... Waters was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Patricia Ann (née Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0