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Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: January 5, 2013
Caption: "Every Housekeeper was Plundered"
Additional Description: "Every housekeeper was plundered except one -- to the Court House they did great injury; not a sash of glass but what was destroyed; much of inside work cut to pieces..."

"Two local women, Mrs. Thompson & Miss Eliza Key (a relative of Francis Scott Key who wrote the Star "Spangled Banner") save the Courthouse from burning by claiming it was sometimes used as a place of worship." -- Replica of report from the Chronicles of St. Mary's, August 14, 1814.
Submitted: January 18, 2013, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p231630
File Size: 1.866 Megabytes

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