A Brief History of Middletown Valley 1849-1890
A Brief History of Middletown Valley 1849-1890
by Harry M. Gross, 1932
Presented by
John D. Barrett
Ocean City, Maryland
Reprocessed by
Dorinda Davis Shepley
Unpublished C Copyright 2004 Not to be reprinted for financial gain.
Foreword
This brief history of the Middletown Valley in Frederick County, Maryland was researched and compiled by Harry M. Gross in 1932, as a paper for the Rhodes or Kellogg scholarship in his senior year at Columbia University. Much of this research was derived from interviews with the local town folks and articles from the local newspaper of that time period. John Brown's Raid at Harper's Ferry and The Civil War are highlighted in addition to agriculture, industries and church and school history. One added surprise is a list of the occupants in Middletown in 1865 provided by one of the local citizens. Harry M. Gross, the author, was the first husband of Elizabeth [Flook] Gross MacGregor, daughter of Cyrus Flook, a Myersville banker and businessman, and his wife, the former Elizabeth Eby. Cyrus Flook lived in Myersville at 511 Main Street, next door (513) to his sister Elizabeth Delana Flook Horine, wife of Alvey J. Horine. John D. Barrett has been in possession of this manuscript since 1973, a gift from his aunt Elizabeth. John and his wife, Linda, wish to share this with all who have an interest in Middletown Valley. Because of the faded print, the document has been reprocessed. Many of the pictures have yellowed but have been scanned and included.
Note: Numbers appearing in parenthesis serve as a cross-reference to the Bibliography located in the back. Footnotes are designated alphabetically on each page.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1 . . . . . . . . . Below You Lies the Happy Valley of the Hills . . . . . 3 Chapter 2 . . . . . . . . . Geology of Middletown Valley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Chapter 3 . . . . . . . . . John Brown and the Harper's Ferry Episode . . . . . . 15 Chapter 4 . . . . . . . . . Pre-War Days of the Civil War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Chapter 5 . . . . . . . . . The Civil War in Middletown Valley . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Chapter 6 . . . . . . . . . Agriculture and Farm Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Chapter 7 . . . . . . . . . Industries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Chapter 8 . . . . . . . . . Church History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Chapter 9 . . . . . . . . . Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
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A Brief History of Middletown Valley - Gross
Below You Lies the Happy Valley of the Hills
I gaze from Braddock towards the glowing West, Where with a matchless brush, the sun paints Old South Mountain crest, "Neath beetling crag and dark ravine, `neath bush and hoary tree, Thro' dasied meads and poppied fields Catoctin hunts the sea; I look across a valley entrancing in my eyes, As lovely as the gardens fair of storied paradise ? Not lovelier than Canaan old which Moses saw afar When he led God's chosen children under Orient sun and star. I see beneath my restless feet a highway leading down To where arise with sacred pride the spires of Middletown. Deep in the Valley like a gem set in some crown of old, And round it in their beauty lie the harvest fields of gold; The turnpike, winding in and out, now peeps, now disappears Until beyond the town it finds the mountain rich in years ? Rich in years and old in story, burdened with its ghostly lore, Crowned with legends wild, pathetic, that will live forevermore. I see the gap among the hills, blue-circled, far away, Where Harper's Ferry nestles `neath its towering walls of gray ? Where Shenandoah's crystal tides and Potomac's ripples wed And Maryland Heights in grandeur rise above nuptial bed; I turn away a moment to a landscape lovelier still Where bloom the fields that circle `round historic Myersville, And far beyond the village fair the mountains lift again, The blue peaks rising high above the rich and fruitful plain. a
a (28), T. C. Harbaugh ? Middletown Valley in Song and Story, pages 55-56
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