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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On Park Mills Road at Urbana Pike (Maryland Route 355), on the right when traveling east on Park Mills Road.
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
On Urbana Pike/Georgetown Pike (Maryland Route 355) at Araby Church Road on Urbana Pike/Georgetown Pike.
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
Near Urbana Pike (Maryland Route 355) at Fingerboard Road (Maryland Route 80), on the right when traveling west. Reported permanently removed.
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
Near Urban Pike at Lew Wallace Street, on the left when traveling west.
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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
Near Urbana Pike (Maryland Route 355) south of Tabler Road, on the right when traveling north.
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
