Recent Events and Projects
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Woodstock Laundry – Historic Home Tour
The Granite Historical Society hosted an Open House on Sunday, May, 19th 2024 at the farmhouse and former laundry for Woodstock College. The home, located at 10820 Old Court Road in Granite, MD, is currently occupied under the Maryland Resident Curatorship Program. The history of the home, historic photographs, and the challenges of living as
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Diggs-Johnson Museum Visit
Instead of the 2024 Spring Hike, the GHS sponsored a curated tour of the Diggs-Johnson Museum, known by most of you as the Cherry Hill Church, on Offut Road. After failing into disrepair at the end of the last century, the church has been restored and now houses the Diggs-Johnson Museum. Ms. Betty Steward, site
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Dorsey Tunnel Hike
GHS 2022 Spring Hike – Article: John Brantley, Treasurer; Photographs: Roy Danz, Vice-President RAIN, RAIN GO AWAY. That childhood ditty kept running through my mind for the two days before the GHS Spring Hike planned for Saturday, May 14th 2022. For two days the rain pelted and the forecast for Saturday looked even worse –
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Quaker Hill Cemetery Clean Up – Stage 2
Work on Quaker Hill Cemetery Restoration Continues – Article and Photographs: Roy Danz, Vice-President Last fall, The Granite Historical Society secured funding from the Patapsco Heritage Greenway to clean-up and landscape a Quaker family cemetery on Wrights Mill road. Initial clean-up and reseeding of the site was completed by the end of October. Earlier this
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Worthington Property Hike
John Brantley, Treasurer – October 26, 2021 On what turned into a pleasantly warm October 24th afternoon, a dozen members of the Granite Historical Society, not to mention a few non-members, toured the Worthington Manor site (sometimes called “Worthington Plantation”), the home and center of farming activity for Thomas Worthington starting in the 1760s. T.W.
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Quaker Hill Cemetery Clean Up – Stage 1
Volunteers from the Society recently worked with a local landscaper to clean Quaker Hill Cemetery. Funding was provided by Patapsco Heritage Greenway.
