Box Lunch Talks: The Other Road to Yorktown

Watch coverage of the Historical Society of Carroll County 187th Anniversary from Saturday, February 3rd, 2024.

The Historical Society of Carroll County presents Box Lunch Talks- Carroll County Choral Society 11/21/23.

Historical Society of Carroll County - Box Lunch Talks-Isaiah's Story

Mary Ann Ashcraft follows the journey of Carroll County native Isaiah Lightner from Union Bridge to Civil War battlefields, to an Indian reservation, and finally to a farm along Nebraska’s Platte River. Years of research [ . . . ]

Box Lunch Talks- Manchester Cigar Industry

Renowned Carroll County historian Joe Getty has done extensive research and writing on the history of the Manchester cigar industry. He shares his latest discoveries in this not-to-be-missed look at one of Carroll County’s most unusual industries [ . . . ]

Historical Society of Carroll County Presents - Box Lunch Talks: The History of Shiloh Pottery

For more than 50 years, Ken and Marty Hankins have welcomed visitors to Shiloh Pottery in Hampstead. Ken has made stoneware pots, run a potters’ supply business, made and sold kick wheels, and fired [ . . . ]

In the spring of 1781, General Anthony “Mad Anthony” Wayne led his Pennsylvania regiments into Virginia to reinforce General Lafayette in the events leading up to the Battle of Yorktown. After putting down a mutiny among his underpaid and under-supplied troops, took them down a road which led them [ . . . ]