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to Maryland American
History and Genealogy Project
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Court House at
Cumberland
Carroll County was formed in 1836 from the counties of
Baltimore and Frederick, between which it lies, with
Howard on the south and Pennsylvania on the north. The
county has an area of 437 square miles and was named in
memory of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, who died in
1832, the last survivor of the signers of the
Declaration of Independence.
The surface is diversified, being level, undulating or
broken, watered by fine streams issuing from innumerable
springs which make up the tributaries of the Potomac,
the Monocacy and the Patapsco. These streams furnish
motive power for cotton and woolen factories, and many
flourishing mills. The soils being limestone, slate and
iron, are fertile and easily improved. These lands
respond bountifully to the efforts of the agriculturist,
whose products are corn, wheat, rye, oats, buckwheat,
hay and potatoes. In many sections grazing is fine, and
dairy farming is profitable.
Limestone is quarried in large quantities for
lime-making; and granite, marble and brownstone furnish
excellent building material. Iron, copper, soapstone and
flint are found in quantities sufficient to be worked
with profit. Ample facilities for speedy and
satisfactory transaction of business are furnished by
fourteen banks, in which the deposits amount to between
two and three million dollars.
Westminster, with a population of 3,199 is the county
seat. Other towns ranging in population from 1,200 to
500 are Union Bridge, Taneytown, Manchester, Hampstead,
Sykesville, New Windsor and Mt. Airy. Carroll was the
first county in the United States to establish rural
free delivery of mail. In 1899 the system went into
operation, and at present four wagons and forty-six
carriers distribute mail in all parts of the county.
The Western Maryland, Baltimore and Ohio and Frederick
Division of the Pennsylvania are the Carroll railroads.
The Western Maryland College and the Westminster
Theological Seminary of the Methodist Protestant Church
are at Westminster, and New Windsor College, at New
Windsor.
Online Here or Other Sites
Maryland
AHGP
Source: History of Maryland, by
L. Magruder Passano, Wm. J.C. Dulany Company, 1901.
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