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The Town of Daniels, Maryland
Daniels, Maryland, was a mill town with its roots as far back as the 1820s. The little town was located on the banks of the Patapsco River just downstream of Granite. In 1831 the townspeople first saw passengers passing through traveling on tracks laid by the newly formed B&O Railroad, the first in the country.…
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100 Years on Acme Avenue
One Hundred Years of Housing on Acme AvenueBy Anna Rose Anderson Prologue: The old horse, pulling his load of the plow, guided assuredly by the powerful hand of a future resident, couldn’t have known he was opening up a road for diligent, hard-working Granitonians, which in years to come would be called RFD #1, Featherbed Lane, and…
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Woodstock Snowball Stand
Perhaps you have found yourself giving directions to our beloved, little village of Granite by saying, “You turn at the snowball stand on Route 99.” There seems to be immediate recognition from the visitor, “Oh, yeah, I know where the snowball stand is!” And, perhaps, rightly named The Snowball Stand, for it is the special…
