Myrtle Hill Home Tells Rich History Behind Detwilers’ Property
The Myrtle Hill house near Keymar, built by Nor mand Bruce on land linked to Francis Scott Key ancestors, sits behind the post office with four surrounding acres. lore ties its name to Mount Vernon stock, Civil War camp activity, and later owners including Miss Maggie Meisting. The Detwilers restored the home after a 1958 return from Spain, preserving its pre Revolutionary era character.
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Myrtle Hill
Donald
Hazel Detwiler
Keymar
Normand Bruce
Ring 5
Francis Scott Key
Detwiler
Bruce
George Washington
Washington
Mount Vernon
Virginia
Suzanne Key
Twelfth Artillery Reserve
Big Pipe Creek
Maggie Meisting
Carrie Nation
State Department
Spain
Mary Annette
Washington, D.C
National Zoological Park
Federal Aviation Administration
Two prison riots leave six dead in Illinois and Georgia
Inmates staged weekend riots at Pontiac Correctional Center Illinois and a southeastern Georgia facility in Reidsville. Four guards and two inmates were killed, with several others injured. The Georgia riot followed racial tensions and overcrowding, while a judge had ordered racial segregation to ease tensions.
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Georgia State
Pontiac Correctional Center
Illinois
Georgia
Reidsville
U.S
Anthony Alaimo
Brunswick
Sara Passmore
Foskey
Two Montana men injured in Garrett County plane crash
Richard Davis and Richard Holtzin of Bell Ridge Missouri were listed in critical condition at Sacred Heart Hospital Cumberland after their J-3 Cub crashed on a ridge west of Dan's Mountain near Garrett County. Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board planned site visits today.
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Davis
Holtzin
National Transportation Safety Board
Horizon County and Mount Airy hearing notices and a Mullinix reunion
A schedule lists seven thirty p.m. hearings at Winchester Hall Brunswick town hall and town office including Horizon County Water and Sewer Hearing Mount Airy Master Plan Hearing and County Board of Appeals. A Mullinix reunion for descendants of John J. Mullinix Emily Purdum Mullinix is set at the Hameed County Fairgrounds Md 144 West Friendship, starting at noon with attendees asked to bring picnics and photos.
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County
Winchester Hall
Brunswick Planning Commission
Town Hall
County Board of Appeals
Mount Airy
John J
Emily Purdum Mullinix
Hameed
County Fairgrounds
West Friendship
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Carroll County
The
Associated Press
Frederick City
Kenneth Leo Langham
Alexandria
Michael Thomas Delauter
Myersville
Dale Edward Forney
Mary Street
Robert Lee Luhn
Linda Gleenell Lee
Frederick
Jay Walter Perskie
Baltimore
Bryan Frederick McDonnell
Westminster
Rodney Woodrow Tomas
Frederick County
Charles Leon Dryatt
Leespurg
Maura Maus Glessner
Clarksburg
Wilbert Eugene Kennan
Summit Point
W.va
Albert Edward Springer
Emmitsburg
Lewis Russell Twigg
Ronald Joseph Warner
Gaithersburg
Ronald Dale Workman
Quinn Road
Cleveland Thruman Grove
West Fourth Street
Stanley William Gunther
Airy
Jerry Lee Marcum
North Bentz Street
Hasel Detwiler
Bruceville
Detwilers
Séth
Federal Avation Administration
Ellyn Hees
Damascus
To Inc
West Second ST
Opticians
Jamascus
Main ST
Aolite
Ultravue
American Optical
Hagerstown
North Potomac ST
Tuernes
Bronco Broan aByce
Wnyl
KFS
Fare
Sweety Savore
Mollepeereck Towne Mall
Watley Moll
Easton Dergs Hornedale
Moll
Montana
Garrett
Winchester
State Police
Sacred Heart Hospital
National Geographic
Pliny
Hirius
Mullinix
Charles J. Cirelli & Son, Inc
Belair Road
District 7
State Highway Administration
Oes
Toro Mower
Ford
Ceresville Motor, Inc
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