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Local History Booklet Highlights Maryland Figures and Landmarks
The Maryland Travel Council distributes a 100 page booklet The Maryland Quiz with Bob Grams illustrations of Maryland history. It recalls Detrick Field near Fort Detrick, Jug Bridge on the Monocacy, Stamp Act resistance, U S 40 as a major postwar route, Commodore Schrey, Barbara Fritchie, Taney, Johnson, and John Hanson as 1781 president. Grams, longtime Baltimore News-Post artist, hails from Brunswick.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maryland Travel Council
Frederick
Maryland
Baltimore News- Post
Bob Grams
Brunswick
County
Detrick Field
Fort Detrick
Frederick L. Detrick
Grams
Old Jug Bridge
Monocacy River
Leo Harbaugh
Boston
U.S. 40
Points West
Commodore Winfield Scott Schrey
Frederick County
Santiago
Cuba
Barbara Fritchie
John Greenleaf Whittier
Roger Brooke ‘Taney
United States Supreme Court
Dred-Scott
Thomas Johnson
Sunday American