Notes and Queries Historical, Biographical and Genealogical Relating Chiefly to Interior Pennsylvania – Annual Volume, 1897 Page 78 William Henry Egle. Some years ago the writer visited Fort Frederick Washington County Maryland. I knew there had to be a burial ground nearby. My inquiries with the local people were fruitless. Finally a colored family said there were graves in a thicket a half mile distant. Farmers for generations had ploughed around it and appeared to be ¼ acre in size and was thickly studded with headstones. Many had inscriptions but were no longer readable except some dates the oldest 1768. I visited again a year later and found to my horror the extension of the W.M.R.R. was being constructed through the copse of trees. Workmen had corralled horses to trees around the graves with many wholly obliterated. Fort Frederick Road Big Pool MD. Area of 39.610289° -78.003710°
Fort Frederick Burial Ground-Update (Washington County Maryland)
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