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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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How the B&O Railroad Came to Granite
The story of Granite’s changing railroad – Article: John Brantley, Treasurer The Old Main Line On May 24th, 1830, tickets went on sale for the first passenger train service between Mount Claire in Baltimore and Ellicott Mills, a distance some 13 miles. Three Years earlier 25 Baltimore bankers and merchants had met in the home…
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The Woodstock Bus Line
A History of the Woodstock Bus Line, the first licensed bus service in Maryland
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Schedule of Past and Upcoming Presentations
