Apr. 17—Initially established as a National Military Park in 1934, Monocacy National Battlefield commemorates "The Battle That Saved Washington," fought on July 9, 1864. The park consists of six ...

Monocacy National Battlefield will come to life with the sights and sounds of the Civil War on Saturday and Sunday. The weekend of events will include living history military encampments ...

Monocacy National Battlefield is a unit of the National Park Service, the site of the Battle of Monocacy in the American Civil War fought on July 9, 1864. The battlefield straddles the Monocacy ...

avid Reed likes to go to Monocacy National Battlefield near Frederick from time to time, but he's no ordinary visitor. During his most recent visit, the Northwest Washington resident got a private ...

NPCA’s Birding the Battlefields program works to raise awareness of the natural aspects of historic national parks ... incinerator on the opposite bank of the Monocacy River, just yards away from the ...

The National Park Service held a tour and 1-mile hike at Monocacy National Battlefield Wednesday in honor of Juneteenth, a holiday that commemorates the emancipation of enslaved people. Park ...

Oct. 21—Monocacy National Battlefield celebrated International Archaeology Day on Saturday by inviting members of the public to assist in digging a shovel test pit before adding new signage in ...

(National Park Service) Private Samuel M. Weigel had already seen extensive combat by the time his veteran Union regiment reached the battlefield near Maryland’s Monocacy River in July 1864.

The battle of Weigel survived and lived until 1922. Now his small, bronze-colored ID disk has been donated by the Monocacy National Battlefield Foundation and will be in the collection at Monocacy ...

For nearly a decade, county officials in Maryland had planned to build a large trash-burning incinerator just yards away from the park boundary at Monocacy National Battlefield. On November 21, after ...

Joy Beasley gave a tour as she described the recent efforts to excavate a 200 year-old slave quarters on the Monocacy National Battlefield.… read more Joy Beasley gave a tour as she described ...