Connections with the Civil War abound around this Courthouse Square, where the first official act of defiance against the British crown - the 1765 Stamp Act Repudiation - occurred almost a century earlier. In 1857, Roger Brooke Taney, Chief Justice . . . — — Map (db m2815) HM
Passionate speeches filled the air at Courthouse Square on September 24, 1864. On that date a throng of Frederick residents listened to Montgomery Blair, Abraham Lincoln's first postmaster general, and other speakers encouraging Marylanders to . . . — — Map (db m260602) HM