Museums, Historic Parks, and Local Civil War Sites

• Antietam Battlefield - includes a page about the Battle of Shepherdstown
  Sharpsburg, Maryland 21782

• Black History Museum
  540 N. Locust Street
  Hagerstown, MD 21740
  301-739-8185

• Boonsboro Museum of History
  113 N. Main Street
  Boonsboro, MD 21713
  301-432-6969
  (This page has a little info about the museum. And here is more info from a Civil War guide.)

• Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park
  Headquarters: Hagerstown, Maryland 21740

• The Civil War in Washington County

• Danske Dandridge Website See also newspaper article.

• Entler Hotel - Historic Shepherdstown Museum
  Open Saturdays: 11-5 Sundays: 1-4
  April-October
  Saved by the citizens of Shepherdstown from demolition in the 1970's

• Friends of the Shepherdstown Riverfront

• George Tyler Moore Center for the Study of the Civil War

• George Washington Heritage Trail

• Hagerstown Roundhouse Museum

• Harper's Ferry Civil War Round Table

• Harpers Ferry National Historical Park

• In the Wake of Battle. (A Woman's Recollections of Shepherdstown during Antietam Week.), by Mary Bedinger Mitchell: pp. 435-444 of The Century; a popular quarterly. / Volume 32, Issue 3 July 1886, online as part of the Making of America Collection at Cornell.

• Jefferson County Historic Landmarks Commission

• Jefferson County Museum
  220 E. Washington Street
  Charles Town, WV 25414
  304-725-8628

• Kennedy Farm in Maryland
  where John Brown stayed prior to the infamous attack on Harpers Ferry.

• The Land Where We Were Dreamin': A People's History of Jefferson County - 2002 Jim Surkamp

• Martin Delany Website

• Martinsburg Roundhouse
  Friends of the Roundhouse Center
  P.O. Box 5084
  Martinsburg, WV 25402

• Jim Surkamp's History of nearby Prospect Hill - owned for generations by the Washington Family

• Rumsey Monument and Cullison Park
  At the end of Mill Street

  Erected in 1915 this granite columnar monument to James Rumsey overlooks the spot where he demonstrated the first working model of the steamboat, in 1787, a full 20 years before Robert Fulton. A working replica of this boat is in the Rumsey Steamboat Museum behind the Entler Hotel.

• Save the Jail - trying to stop the beautiful old jail building in Charles Town from being razed.

• Sharpsburg Historical Society

• Shepherdstown History - by Jim Price

• The Station at Shepherdstown