2023 Road Trip: Frederick, MD III (4/30/2023)

Sunday, April 30, 2023
We started out today in pouring rain. At least parking was free on Sundays in Frederick, MD! Our previous two Frederick, MD posts were on 2/7/2022.

Frederick Town (Hessian) Barracks (1780) on a site that
housed captured German soldiers during the American
Revolution, then was the state armory, a Civil War hospital,
and the first building of the Maryland School for the Deaf

A water fountain tribute (2007, by Charles
Crum and Toby Mendez) to honor Marie Diehl,
the founder of the Frederick Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, with a
bas relief of the original memorial fountain
(a Roadside America attraction)

Carroll Creek

Classics (2000, by George Lundeen) depicts a teenaged
boy reading to younger children: the words inscribed
are from The Star Spangled Banner

The National Museum of Civil War Medicine is housed 
in a building that had undertakers on the second floor, who
had built caskets and embalmed soldiers during the Civil War

Several murals in the corridors
put us on the scene

An original tent used by Surgeon John Wiley,
who was at the Battle of Gettysburg

The portable desk of Major Jonathan Letterman, who,
as medical director of the Army of the Potomac,
created the Ambulance Corps, revolutionizing the
treatment of wounded soldiers

The first Ambulance Corps

A Veterinary Surgeon's Medical Kit, for the care of
the many horses and mules in military service

A prosthetic arm developed by Marvin Lincoln,
patented in 1863, had a locking elbow joint
and a thumb with a spring to hold small objects

A hospital supply backpack carried by medical personnel
at field dressing stations closer to battle sites

A couple of stewards administer first aid in the field

More severe wounds were tended at the field hospitals

The Antietam Arm, is naturally preserved and was
reported to have been found at the battlefield of Antietam
(a Roadside America attraction)

The arm was not surgically amputated, but may have been torn off in battle.

A complete Surgeon's Capital Operating Kit
that contains tools sufficient for most procedures

A hospital drug chest with 48 different
prepared compounds or mixtures

A crutch, and another crutch with a leg stump holder

A model of an early hospital; after the Civil War,
hospitals became known or accepted as places of healing

Nuns, or Sisters, were already trained in the healing arts
and became the first nurses in hospitals

Embalming of the dead soldiers was also often
performed in field hospitals, especially since transportation
companies refused to deliver bodies that were not embalmed

Back out on the wet streets of Frederick...

The former Tivoli Theatre (1926, by
John Jacob Zink blending Classical
Revival and Beaux Arts styles)

The Dreaming (2007, by William Cochran)
is an art installation of glass and paint

John Hanson National Memorial features
a statue (2012, by Toby Mendez) in honor
of the first President of the United States
under the Articles of Confederation that
served as our first consitution
(a Roadside America attraction)

Pythian Castle (1912, by Benjamin Evard Kepner
in Gothic Revival and Beaux Arts styles)

Dinosaur Mural (2017, by Goodloe Byron)
depicts an Astrodon johnstoni,
Maryland's State dinosaur

Former Town Hall and Marketplace (1765-1769)
now houses Brewer's Alley, where we had lunch

The Town Hall is where city officials paid a $200,000 ransom to Confederate General Jubal Early in July 1864, to prevent him from burning down the city.

Hardey Building (1936, in Art Deco style)

One of William Cochran's trompe l'oeil
murals, Egress (1988) shows a wood duck
entering the street from a sky inside the building

Evangelical Lutheran Sunday School (1890, by the Dempwolf
architecture firm in Richardsonian Romanesque style)

Houck Mansion (1900, by Dempwolf,
in Richardsonian Romanesque style)

Rowhouses along E Third Street

Fancier rowhouses on E Third Street

Former Visitation Academy (1846), the only school to
remain open during the Civil War as it was the
site of a Civil War encampment

St John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church (1836);
while other churches served as Civil War hospitals, this one was
used to jail Confederate soldiers because of its high windows

Shab Row once housed tinkers, wheelwrights and others who
serviced stagecoaches traveling the National Road in the 1800s

Trail House (1852, by Colonel Charles Trail in Italianate style)

The Museum of Frederick County History occupies this
house (1824) that was used as an orphanage until 1959

Evangelical Lutheran Church (1854,
in Gothic Revival style)

Winchester Hall (1843, in Greek Revival style) began as
Frederick Female Seminary, a predecessor of Hood College

A residential duplex in Italianate style

Leaving Frederick, we had a couple more stops.

824 E Patrick Street: Patsy Cline
lived upstairs from 1952 to 1956
(a Roadside America attraction)

Jug Bridge Monument with a stone
demijohn/jug from the original bridge
and a plaque commemorating the visit
of General Marquis de Lafayette in 1824
(a Roadside America attraction)

The Jug Bridge was built in 1808 as part of the National Road to cross the Monocacy River. It was considered a marvel of engineering at the time with four 65-foor stone arches. The stone jug sat at the east end of the bridge.

A stop in Bethesda, MD to see the
Madonna of the Trail, one of twelve such
statues along the National Old Trails Road,
the trail of the Conestoga wagons

The statues were part of a project by the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. They were erected in 1928-1929 with the sites chosen with the help of the then-president of the National Old Trails Road Association: Harry S Truman. The National Road (1811-1837) connected the Potomac and Ohio Rivers, from Cumberland, MD to Vandalia, IL. Over time, trail extensions were constructed, and are now considered the National Old Trails Road, running from New York City to Los Angeles.

Managed to see the busy Erich S family and had dinner together at Gregorio's Pizzeria in Potomac, MD.

A  towel sculpture at our
Best Western in Springfield, VA!

Next: River Farm.