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Bell and family tour Frederick sites amid war shadow
On a Sunday in April 1915 Alexander Graham Bell and his wife visited the Francis Scott Key Monument at Mount Olivet Cemetery, then Barbara Fritchie and Braddock Heights are described with Carroll Creek, a trolley track, and a view over Middletown Valley. The piece places their trip amid news of the Lusitania sinking and rising tensions before U.S. entry into World War I, noting Bell's US citizenship and lifelong interest in aviation and hydrofoils.
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Mount Olivet Cemetery
Francis Scott Key
America
Spain
Key
Europe
Alexander Graham Bell
Ypres
Wilson
Mr. Bell
Scotland
United States
Barbara Fritchie
Beil
John C. Fritchie
North Bentz Street
Whittier
Frederick
Carroll Creek
West Patrick Street
Bell
Braddock Heights
City Hotel
Catoctin Mountain
Middletown Valley
Braddock
Frederick County
Washington
Germany
Congress
Canada
Cape Breton Island
Austria
Frederick W. Baldwin
Baldwin
United States Navy Department
Navy Department
Holland
Patent Office
China
India
Australia
New Zealand
Sydney
Mark Twain
Atlantic
England
Mabel Grosvenor
Edinburgh
Mabel Bell
Sir Walter Scott
Baddeck
Nova Scotia
North America
Frederick — Francis Scott Key
Roger Brooke Taney
Mt. Olivet