Frederick, Past & Present

From: The Washington Post | Date: June 30, 1995| Author: Larry Fox | Copyright information

IT WAS 1745 when Daniel Dulany, a southern Maryland plantation owner, began laying out plans for his 7,700-acre tract of land in the piedmont of central Maryland. Though Dulany would never live there, he knew the land was fertile and the location was promising, for it lay at a crossroads between the North and South and the coastal cities of the East and the expanding frontier West.

Dulany's dream of a settlement that would become a vital crossroads came true, but in ways he never envis...

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