Frederick Maryland Historic Sights

Maryland is full of interesting spots to visit and marvel at during the holidays and weekends. The historic town of Frederick at North, the county seat of Frederick County, is one such spot.

If you appreciate American history, you should definitely take a walking tour of the historic downtown Frederick. The variety of churches, spires and classic looking buildings will certainly appeal to the amateur historian in you. The ninety minute walk includes a stop by at the Historical Society of Frederick County Museum and the famous Roger Brooke Taney House.

If you are a Civil War buff, Frederick offers a one-and-only museum of its kind – the National Museum of Civil War Medicine. Admission is free to this authoritative exhibit of the medicinal technology used back in the 1860s. Educational exhibits and shows, and a good museum store complete the tour.

Did you know that Francis Scott Key, the author of the US National Anthem, was from Frederick, Maryland and has a monument at the Mount Olivet Cemetery?

And guess who else lies at the same cemetery? Thomas Johnson, the first Governor of Maryland.

You can also visit the curious Hessian Barracks (by appointment only) at 101 Clark Place, Frederick where two battalions of Hessian soldiers were quartered back in 1777. The barracks later on became home to many mercenaries fighting for England and against the fledgling new democracy of the New Continent.

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Frederick, Maryland
We lived in Frederick for one year, and I fell in love with that town. I was amazed at the old buildings in the downtown area and the fact that our church was used as a hospital during the civil war.

Set in a beautiful rural area full of winding roads, Frederick has been delightfully preserved. Incredible restaurants line Market Street and antique shops can be found on Patrick Street. South of Patrick Street is Carroll Creek Park.

I really miss Frederick, especially the restaurants. We are planning a trip back to the area so I can visit some of my favorites like Dutch’s Daughter and Isabella’s Tapas Bar. I also want to visit Carroll Creek Park, which has gone through a renovation since we’ve lived there. My favorite part of the park is the trompe l’oeil (”fool the eye”) mural on the Carroll Creek Community Bridge. William Cochran transformed a plain concrete bridge into an incredible work of art. Whenever I visit the bridge, I find new details that surprise me..

I have more pictures of Frederick posted on Flickr and a slideshow on YouTube.

Frederick (city, Maryland)
Encyclopedia Article

Map of Frederick (city, Maryland)
Frederick (city, Maryland), city, seat of Frederick County, northwestern Maryland, on a tributary of the Monocacy River; settled by 1745, incorporated 1817. It is a trade and shipping center of a rich dairy-farming and corn- and wheat-growing region. Important manufactures here have included electrical and electronic equipment, control devices, biomedical products, hardware, and pumps. Hood College (1893), Maryland School for the Deaf (1867), and a U.S. Army research laboratory are here. The city has several churches dating from the 18th and early 19th centuries. Francis Scott Key, author of “The Star-Spangled Banner;” Chief Justice Roger B. Taney; and Barbara Fritchie, a devoted Unionist during the American Civil War, are buried in Frederick. In 1864, during the Civil War, Confederate General Jubal A. Early extracted a $200,000 ransom from the city before defeating Union forces at the Battle of Monocacy, which was fought nearby. Frederick probably is named for Frederick Calvert, 6th baron Baltimore. Population 28,086 (1980); 40,148 (1990); 52,767 (2000); 57,907 (2005 estimate).