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Bachman Valley, Maryland One Place Study

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Bachman Valley, Maryland One Place Study

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This area originally straddled the border between Frederick and Baltimore Counties. Now it's in Carroll County. Its largest town is Manchester. Melrose is nearby. The local newspaper was the Westminster Advocate.

A referendum in October 1833 referendum sought public support for the creation of Carroll County out of pieces of Frederick and Baltimore counties.

The town of Dug Hill, now known as Manchester, was (for tax reasons) opposed to formation of a new county. (Did you know Manchester was nicknamed Noodle Doosey because the German immigrants hung noodles to dry on their front porches?)

After the election, infuriated residents in Manchester dragged a cannon up to the top of Dug Hill and repeatedly fired on Westminster.

Sources

Early Burials at the Lutheran and Reformed Church
Nace's Regiment: Maryland Militia, War of 1812
Members of the Union Fire Company in Carroll County MD (1839)
Oldest inhabitants in Melrose (1879)
Bachman Valley 1840 Census (sortable)
Bachman Valley 1830 Census
Bachman Valley 1820 Census index
List of Congregants at the Pipe Creek Church aka St Benjamin's, Krider's Church, or Kreider's Church
Congregants at Zions Church ("The German Church") north of Manchester in the Bachman Valley (now Carroll County)
List of attendees at five estate sales in the Bachman Valley 1867-1897
Melrose, Carroll County, Maryland
Bachman Valley Voters, 1873

Wikitree's List of Carroll County Cemeteries (you can add your ancestors to their cemeteries). Also, many Bachman Valley residents were buried just over the Pennsylvania line in West Manheim, particularly at St David's Cemetery

Carroll County taxpayers 1837






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Hunt-21207 AmyLynn Hunt
Hi everyone. This is a question regarding some adopted entries, I only ask here because when I do a general web search for Bachmann Valley, most of the top "hits" are WikiTree. Is Bachmann Valley an appropriate location for a birth in *1835*, or should I be searching for a more specific city/town or county in Maryland?

'Appreciate the cannon drawing :) That definitely adds to imagining that day!

posted by AmyLynn Hunt
Peppler-18 Jane Peppler
Hi. I started using Bachman Valley as a location because so many people say Carroll County for early births/deaths even though it was created until 1837. Prior to that people were born in Frederick or Baltimore county but it can be hard to figure out which. Thanks for writing
posted by Jane Peppler
Suellen (West) Walker
There's a map of Frederick, Carroll & Baltimore Counties at https://hsccmd.org/carrolls-long-history/. It shows where the lines were & where they are now. I grew up in the northeast "corner" between Manchester & Hampstead -- not named on the map. Basically, if the town in question is on the west side of Carroll County, it was originally part of Frederick but that's a small portion of the whole. The map is almost half way down the page.
posted by Suellen (West) Walker

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