Jeff Duvall

Here is an issue which has been showing up more and more over the last few years. What if material presented as fact on the internet, in local history books...

In her book, “The Story of Bethel United Methodist Church,” the late Myra Ensor included a story told by Civil War historian Dan Hartzler regarding a Union soldier whose regiment...

In the 1880 census, the African-American centenarian Nancy Saunders was living with her son, George, in the Englar’s Mill area of Frederick County. Two years earlier there had been an...

In her own lifetime, Nancy Saunders was a celebrated African-American resident of the Sam’s Creek area when the nation was celebrating the centenary of its independence. Her reported age in...

Those of great age have always been seen as a way to touch history. In the Feb. 8, 1879, edition of the Democratic Advocate is found a notice entitled “Death...

At the intersection of Marston and Dennings roads near Taylorsville lies the small community of Dennings. It began with the arrival of James Denning from County Donegal, Ireland, about 1800....