Addressing Lincoln and more at Taneytown breakfast [Eagle
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The English author, essayist and biographer, Samuel Johnson
once said: “There are two types of knowledge.
One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.”
Well, where to find it is at the Taneytown business
breakfast. If you have ever attended, you know you may arrive to find a few
strangers in the room, but you never leave without making new friends, connections
and learning some new way to charge ahead into the day and make a difference in
our community.
Audrey Cimino of the Community Foundation of Carroll County
could not agree more. “Oh my, - without a doubt, this is the best business
breakfast in the area,” said Cimino as she juggled her breakfast in one hand,
handed-out literature in the other hand and fielded questions from folks right
and left including Kevin McLeod, the Program Director at Silver Oak Academy,
and Steve Wantz, the past president of the Carroll County Volunteer Emergency
Services Association.
Taneytown, economic development, Carroll County, Maryland,
breakfast, business,
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Also see: Battle of the Alamo coincided with Carroll's
independence efforts
By Kevin Dayhoff, September 26, 2013
In October 1833 a referendum was held, in what we now know
as the area encompassing Baltimore, Carroll and Frederick counties, on whether
a new county was to be created. The vote failed, 593 to 554, although it was
later speculated that it failed because of voter irregularities in Baltimore
County.
Manchester, which had been against the idea of forming a
separate (Carroll) county, “exultantly fired [a cannon] in the direction of
defeated Westminster” after the vote was taken.
Subsequently a bill was introduced in 1835 and passed the
General Assembly on March 25, 1836 to form Carroll County. This act was confirmed on January 19, 1837.
It took only a war of words that lasted about 50 years, but Carroll Countians
had finally become an independent county.
This portion of Carroll County history came to mind earlier
in the month as I pondered the events of Feb. 23 through March 6, 1836 while I
studied a small clay, mud and straw building in a far-off land, now known as
Texas.
Many will recognize the dates as when the Battle of the
Alamo took place in San Antonio Texas. I took a few days in early September to
tour the Alamo and San Antonio and study how its history compared with events
in Carroll County in the same time frame.
With the exception of Manchester getting a bit feisty in
1833 and about three military campaigns during the American Civil War, Carroll
County history is remarkably free of bloodshed and violence.
And see: Carroll Lutherans started meeting in 1747
By Kevin Dayhoff, September 3, 2013
The Lutheran church in Maryland can possibly trace its roots
as far back as 1747 when small numbers of Lutherans and German Reformers began
meeting in private homes primarily in northern Carroll and Frederick Counties.
“The first church building in Carroll County was erected by
the Lutheran and Reformed congregations of Manchester in 1760…,” according to a
history, “Carroll County Maryland," written by Nancy Warner.
