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Fritchie was born Barbara Hauer in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.On May 6, 1806, she married John Casper Fritchie, a glove maker. Her father-in-law, John Caspar Fritchie, was one of seven British loyalists convicted of high treason against the United States in Frederick, Maryland, in June 1781, based on a plot to free British prisoners in Frederick and join with General Cornwallis in Virginia.
Barbara Frietchie, The Frederick Girl is a play in four acts by Clyde Fitch and based on the heroine of John Greenleaf Whittier's poem "Barbara Frietchie" (based on a real person: Barbara Fritchie). Fitch takes a good bit of artistic liberty and intertwines her story with that of his own grandparents' love story, which also takes place during ...
Frederick is a city in, and the county seat of, Frederick County, Maryland, United States. Frederick's population was 78,171 people as of the 2020 census, making it the second-largest incorporated city in Maryland behind Baltimore. [5] It is a part of the Washington metropolitan area and the greater Washington–Baltimore combined statistical area.
In 1867 Frederick Douglass stayed with him, after being refused hotel accommodations in St. Louis, when Douglass was in the city for his speech at the St. Louis Turn Halle. [6] [7] Roberson helped support James A. Johnson's St. Louis Blue Stockings baseball team. [8] [9] A St. Louis periodical published an image of his brother cutting hair. [10]
Andrea Barber, actress known for Full House and Fuller House; [3] Herschel Daugherty, film, television and theatre director [4] Ken Davitian, actor; Bill Handel, radio personality [5] Cassey Ho, video blogger; [6] Cheryl Boone Isaacs, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences [7] Chris Jacobs, actor and television host
The old General Store and a beautiful example of a Buckeystown home. Image modified from photo by J. Cosham. The small community of Buckeystown has several businesses including Hedgeapple Farm, the Buckeystown Market (a pub), the Frederick Inn Bed and Breakfast (formally known as The Inn at Buckeystown), Bodmers Stoves and Pottery, Maynes Farm, a convenience store and gas station, an antique ...
President Joe Biden's top aides are discussing whether preemptive pardons to current and former public officials who may be targeted by the incoming Trump administration should be considered, but ...
The following is a chronological list of buildings designed by late-19th- and early-20th-century catalog architect, George Franklin Barber (1854–1915). Barber is best known for his houses, but also designed churches, barns, and storefronts.