It has been about 100 years since barges floated along the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal between Washington, D.C., and rural ...

In 2024, Antietam National Battlefield in Washington County, Md.; Monocacy National Battlefield in in Frederick County, Md. and Harpers Ferry National Historical Park in West Virginia each had ...

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 ...

Antietam National Battlefield in southern Washington County is getting a new superintendent next month. Andrew Banasik, who is now superintendent at Monocacy National Battlefield in Frederick ...

Two were found at Antietam National Battlefield and one at Monocacy National Battlefield during recent white-tailed deer reduction operations and disease sampling, the park service said.

The World Socialist Web Site recently spoke to Robert Sutton, former Superintendent of Manassas National Battlefield Park and former Chief Historian of the National Park Service (NPS), on the ...

As the sun shined down on Gambrill Mill at the Monocacy National Battlefield on Friday, the park staff, visitors, park partners and representatives of public officials gathered to celebrate the ...

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 ...

(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 ...