Cheap Things To Do in Fairplay, Maryland

The Rural Heritage Museum depicts rural living prior to 1940. More on MuseumsUSA.org

Mules stopped pulling coal barges in 1924; now bikers pass locks, lockhouses, and aqueducts while looking for bald eagles. The Monocacy Aqueduct, at milepost 42.2, has just been restored to its ori... More on travelandleisure

Harpers Ferry National Historic Site contains many exhibits and museums pertaining to history , industry, John Brown, the civil war, African American history , environmental history , and tr... More on igougo

The Antietam National Cemetery in Sharpsburg contains the remains of 4,776 soldiers from the Battle of Anti... More on PlanetWare

I found my gr gr gr grandfather buried in section C6. He was a member of Company G 6th WV Infantry Voluntee... More on TripAdvisor

Statue of "Hope" marks the burial place of more than 2,000 Confederate soldiers who died in the Civil War battles ... More on Search.visitmaryland.org

Inscription. Part of an original grant of 10,000 acres known as Conococheague Manor, the mansion house was built early in the 1800's and tradition attributes its design to Benjamin H. Latrobe. It i... More on HMDB

Built 1885 by George Alfred Townsend, famous author/war correspondent of Civil War period. Only monument in the world erected ... More on Search.visitmaryland.org

Dedicated to the memory of war ... More on Yahoo! Travel

Inscription. “The turnpike bridge at Funkstown is the only one. which seems to belong to a town” : —Helen Ashe Hays, The Antietam and its Bridges, This bridge, finished in 1823, is perhaps the oldest one over Antietam ... More on HMDB

Inscription. The Confederate presence at Funkstown threatened any Union advance against Gen. Robert E. Lees position near Williamsport and the Potomac River as he retreated to Virginia after the Ba... More on HMDB

Inscription. After Gettysburg, in order to mask entrenching operations along the Potomac river by General R. E. Lee, Confederate troops, led by General J. E. B. Stuart, engaged Union forces under G... More on HMDB

Inscription. By the citizens of the Funkstown District in grateful appreciation of the services of those of her citizens who were engaged with the military, navy and marine forces of the United States in the World War. 1914-1918, ... More on HMDB

Inscription. Used to treat Confederate officer H. D. McDaniel 11th GA. Regt. during the battle of Funkstown July 10, 1863, who suffered a severe wound and was brought to this house. He survived to later become governor of Georgia. ... More on HMDB

Inscription. The main timber-frame portion of the house was built by the Hitt family before 1790. A log addition was added in the 1830's by the Cost family, nearly doubling the size of the house. After the battle of Antietam, it was ... More on HMDB