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More About Barbara Fritchie & The Poem That Made Her Famous
The Pledge Of Allegiance
Points of Interest near Historic Frederick
Barbara Fritchie Home
Francis Scott Key Museum in Taney Home
Barbara Fritchie Monument and Burial Ground, Mount Olivet Cemetery
Francis Scott Key Monument and Burial Ground, Mount Olivet Cemetery
Monocacy Battlefield
Revolutionary Barracks
Old Jug Bridge
Famous Frederick County Personalities
It is very rare for any one community to produce or to lay claim to accomplishments of ten outstanding Americans, each with a national reputation - yet the following individuals were either born in Frederick County, made their reputations here, or resided within the boundaries of the County for a period of years.
Francis Scott Key (Author of our National Anthem)
Roger Brooke Taney (Noted Jurist and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court for 28 years.)
Barbara Fritchie (Civil War Heroine)
Thomas Johnson (First Governor of Maryland, Patriot and Jurist)
John Hanson (First President of the U. S. Congress)
Sgt. Lawrence Everhart (Revolutionary War Hero)
William Tyler Page (Author of the “The American Creed”)
George Alfred Townsend (Author and Civil War Correspondent)
Admiral Winfield Scott Schley (Hero of Santiago)
Admiral Russell R. Waesche (Commandant, U. S. Coast Guard, World War II)
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