Historical Markers and War Memorials in Urbana, Maryland
Frederick is the county seat for Frederick County
Urbana is in Frederick County
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First glass manufactury in Maryland. Established by John Frederick Amelung of Bremen, Germany in 1784. George Washington wrote enthusiastically about it to Thomas Jefferson. — — Map (db m117294) HM
This boulder, taken from the bed of the improved Rt. 355 (formerly US Rte. 240) previously stood approximately 50 ft to the south at a point where the old Urbana Road/Georgetown Pike (now Araby Church Road) intersects the relocated improved highway. . . . — — Map (db m78432) HM
Constructed in 1754 on the banks of the Rappahannock River in Virginia, this building was reconstructed here in 1846 and became Landon Female Academy. Early in September 1862, while infantry of Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia rested . . . — — Map (db m1739) HM
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In June 1864, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and Gen. Jubal A. Early’s corps from the Richmond battlefields to the Shenandoah Valley to counter Union Gen. David Hunter’s army. After driving Hunter into West Virginia, Early . . . — — Map (db m76643) HM
In honor of veterans from Frederick County who gave their lives in the support of the Global War on Terrorism since September 11, 2001
Greater love has no one than this,
that he lay down his life for his friends.
In Memory of our . . . — — Map (db m144716) WM