Instead of the 2024 Spring Hike, the GHS sponsored a curated tour of the Diggs-Johnson Museum, known by most of us as the Cherry Hill Church, on Offutt 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 Stewart, site…
The old Alberton Road, closed down after flooding from Tropical Storm Agnes wiped out the town of Daniels in 1972, remains mostly paved and serves as the state park trail. Along the route are plenty of foundations from houses that graced the Baltimore County side of the river before the flood. The stone remnants of…
The Patapsco River bottom, from just below the current Woodstock Bridge upriver to Possum Hollow, had once been part of the Woodstock Jesuit College grounds. John Brantley, who led the tour, began by pointing out where the original St. Alphonsus Church stood; the church was destroyed after a lightning strike in 1968. On the river…
On November 6, 2022 our GHS group walked around the Worthington Family Cemetery, saw the one outbuilding on the manor site which is still standing, examined a huge stone barn foundation and also examined a series of 12 fairly large flat stones which have sometimes been identified as slave grave markers. A report on Worthington…
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In April 2017, GHS interviewed local farmer Wayne Dell. Recollections include local farming, riding the school bus, family, Edrich Lumber, and even evangelist Billy Sunday.
GHS inteviewed local resident Kathy Skullney in April 2018. Among other things, Kathy discusses the joys of owning the historic Albright house on Davis Avenue.
The Granite National Register Historic District comprises the focus of a rural quarrying community located in the Patapsco Valley of western Baltimore County, Maryland. The district includes properties along Old Court Road and several side streets, between Granite Road on the east and Hernwood Road on the west. Contributing resources include two churches, a school,…
Filmed in March 2008, this interview with Virginia Brantley explores her family, her life in Granite and her church.
