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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4IQ_big-pool-junction_Big-Pool-MD.html
The eighteen miles of rails betweenHagerstown and Big Pool were the busiestof the Western Maryland Railway. It washere in 1892 that a connection was made with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad across the Potomac River at Cherry Run, West Virginia. T…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM44F_fort-frederick_Big-Pool-MD.html
Colonial stone fort built 1756 for Province of Maryland by Gov. Horatio Sharpe to protect frontier against French and Indians after Braddock's defeat. Detention camp for British prisoners 1776-83. Occupied 1861-2 by Union troops. George Washington…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3G8_fort-mills_Big-Pool-MD.html
←One of the four stockade forts erected in 1756 along the North Mount Road as supports for Fort Frederick in preventing the Indians from descending upon the inhabitants living in the Cumberland Valley.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM36U_nathan-williams_Big-Pool-MD.html
Nathan Williams was the son of Samuel "Big Sam" Williams, a slave who in 1826 bought freedom for himself, his wife, and his four children. In 1839, the elder Williams purchased a farm near Four Locks, about 3.5 miles east of Fort Frederick. There,…