MARYLAND AT A GLANCE

MUSEUMS

WASHINGTON COUNTY

Barron's C&O Canal Museum
5632 Mose Circle, Sharpsburg, MD 21782
(301) 432-8726
web: www.visitmaryland.org/listing/history-heritage/barrons-co-canal-museum-store

Beaver Creek School Museum
9702 Beaver Creek Church Road, Hagerstown, MD 21740
(closed in 2016)

Boonsborough Museum of History (Douglas G Bast Museum of History & Preservation)
113 North Main St., Boonsboro, MD 21713
(301) 432-6969
web: https://dgb-boonsboro-museum.com/

Bowman House
P. O. Box 213
Boonsboro Historical Society, 323 North Main St., Boonsboro, MD 21713 - 0213
(301) 432-5889
e-mail: info@boonsborohistoricalsociety.org
web: http://boonsborohistoricalsociety.org/bowman-house/

Clear Spring District Historic Association Museums
P. O. Box 211
Clear Spring, MD 21722 - 0211

Brown's Meeting House (formerly Log House Museum)
11 South Mill St., Clear Spring, MD 21722 - 0037
(301) 842-2342


Plumb Grove Mansion (1831 house)
12654 Broadfording Road, Clear Spring, MD 21722
(301) 842-2342
e-mail: dwileshistory@verizon.net
web: https://historyofclearspring.wixsite.com/csdha/plumb-grove

Discovery Station
101 West Washington St., Hagerstown, MD 21740
(301) 790-0076
e-mail: info@discoverystation.org
web: https://discoverystation.org/

Doleman Black Heritage Museum
33-35 West Washington St., 2nd floor, Hagerstown, MD 21740
(301) 797-5019
e-mail: info@dolemanblackheritagemuseum.org
web: www.dolemanblackheritagemuseum.org/

Fort Frederick, Washington County, Maryland, November 2013. Photo by Sarah A. Hanks.

Geiser-Mason Farm Museum, Smithsburg, Maryland, January 2006. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.

Hagerstown Museums
351 North Cleveland Ave., Hagerstown, MD 21740
(301) 739-8577, ext. 170

Hagerstown Railroad Museum & Engine 202
525 Highland Way (City Park), Hagerstown, MD 21740
web: www.hagerstownmd.org/310/Hagerstown-Railroad-Museum-Engine-202

Jonathan Hager House & Museum (town founder)
110 Key St. (City Park), Hagerstown, MD 21740
web: www.hagerstownmd.org/309/Jonathan-Hager-House-Museum

Jonathan Hager House, City Park, Hagerstown, Maryland, August 2004. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.

Hancock Museums
Town Hall, 126 West High St., Hancock, MD 21750
(301) 678-5622
e-mail: townclerk@townofhancock.org

Hancock Museum
Town Hall, 126 West High St., Hancock, MD 21750
web: www.townofhancock.org/tourism/page/hancock-museum

Hancock Visitor Center
46 West Main St., Hancock, MD 21750
(closed)

Hancock Museum, Town Hall, 126 West High St., Hancock, Maryland, April 2008. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.

Toll House
Bank Road (Route 144), Hancock, MD 21750

Kennedy Farmhouse (John Brown's Raid Headquarters)
2406 Chestnut Grove Road, Sharpsburg, MD 21782
web: https://johnbrown.org/
(closed for renovation)

Kennedy Farmhouse, 2406 Chestnut Grove Road, Sharpsburg, Maryland, October 2019. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.

Miller House Museum
Washington County Historical Society, 135 West Washington St., Hagerstown, MD 21740
(301) 797-8782
e-mail: info@washcohistory.org
web: https://washcohistory.org/miller-house/

Miller House, 135 West Washington St., Hagerstown, Maryland, June 2004. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.

Boonsboro Trolley Station Museum
220 North Main St., Boonsboro, MD 21713
(301) 432-5141
web: https://nationalrdfoundation.org/trolley-station-museum/

National Road Museum
214 North Main St., Boonsboro, MD 21713
web: http://nationalrdfoundation.com/national-road-museum/

National Road Museum, 214 North Main St., Boonsboro, Maryland, October 2019. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.

mailing address: 22 South Market St., Suite 215, Frederick, MD 21701

Pry House Field Hospital Museum
18906 Shepherdstown Pike, Keedysville, MD 21756
(301) 432-6352, (301) 416-2395; fax: (301) 695-6823
web: www.civilwarmed.org/pry/plan/

mailing address: c/o National Museum of Civil War Medicine, P. O. Box 470, 48 East Patrick St., Frederick, MD 21705 - 0470

Sharpsburgh Museum of History (formerly Sharpsburg Heritage Museum)
P. O. Box 368
Town Hall, 106 East Main St., 2nd floor, Sharpsburg, MD 21782 - 0368
(301) 800-6877
e-mail: loveshistory.1866@gmail.com

Smithsburg Town Museum
P. O. Box 403
20 East Water St., Smithsburg, MD 21783 - 0403
(301) 824-7154
e-mail: smithsburghistorical@yahoo.com

Tolson's Chapel
P.O. Box 162
111 East High St., Sharpsburg, MD 21782 - 0162
e-mail: tolsons.chapel@gmail.com
web: www.tolsonschapel.org/

Train Room Museum
360 South Burhans Blvd., Hagerstown, MD 21740
(closed in July 2019)

Washington County Museum of Fine Arts
401 Museum Drive (City Park), Hagerstown, MD 21741
(301) 739-5727
e-mail: info@wcmfa.org
web: http://wcmfa.org/

Washington County Rural Heritage Museum
Agricultural Education Center, 7313 Sharpsburg Pike (Route 65), Boonsboro, MD 21713
(240) 420-1714
web: www.washco-md.net/parks-facilities/rural-heritage-museum/

Washington Monument Museum
Washington Monument State Park, 6620 Zittlestown Road, Middletown, MD 21769
(301) 791-4767
web: https://dnr.maryland.gov/publiclands/Pages/western/Washington/History-Washington.aspx

mailing address: c/o Greenbrier State Park, 21843 National Pike, Boonsboro, MD 21713

Williamsport Town Museum
Springfield Farm Tenant House, 12 Springfield Lane, Williamsport, MD 21795
e-mail: wmspthistory@gmail.com
web: https://wmspthistory.org/town-museum-of-williamsport
(Tenant House undergoing restoration)

Wilson Village (General Store & One-Room Schoolhouse)
14921 Rufus Wilson Road, Clear Spring, MD 21722
(301) 582-4718

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