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1. BURKIT_090201_03.JPG: Burkittsville: Houses of Worship Become Houses of Misery -- Antietam Campaign 1862 -- Union surgeons turned Burkittsville, a quiet rural village of some 200 people, into a hospital complex after the September 14, 1862, Battle of Crampton's Gap. The building in front of you, the German Reformed Church, was Hospital D. Twenty-year-old Henrietta Biser gasped when she saw the church pews strewn in the front yard and "a pile of amputated limbs lying just inside the door of the church. Blood was running... over the floor... and things were torn to pieces." Henry W. Wiener remembered amputations being conducted in the church and "seeing blood on... the walls of the church." Wounded Union and Confederate soldiers lay on the floor, their seeping blood ruining the carpet, until straw was brought in. When it became soaked, it was pitched outside and replaced with cots. The red brick St. Paul's Lutheran Church also served as a hospital, and the Reformed Church parsonage, which stood between the churches, may also have served a medical function. The Henry McDuell farm north of town was Hospital A. The hospitals operated until January 1863, when the remaining patients were transferred to Frederick. The soldiers who died in Burkittsville were temporarily interred in the town cemetery. The Federals were removed to the Antietam National Cemetery in 1867 and the Confederates to Hagerstown's Washington Confederate Cemetery in the 1870s. Hospital D stands as a reminder of the misery and destruction the Antietam Campaign brought into the heart of this quiet town.
2. BURKIT_090201_10.JPG: German Reformed Church, Hospital D after the battle of Crampton's Gap
3. BURKIT_090201_41.JPG: The Blair Witch Project: (from Wikipedia): Burkittsville gained notoriety with the 1999 release of the film The Blair Witch Project, and its follow-ups: a film sequel (Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2), a series of video games, a Showtime special (The Burkittsville 7), and many Internet fan sites. "The poor town of Burkittsville suddenly found itself overrun with Blair Witch groupies, wandering around in the woods, trying to find the 'real' places where the story had happened." Contrary to popular belief, however, the majority of the film was not filmed in Burkittsville but in Maryland's Seneca Creek State Park, and the events depicted in the film and the legend of the Blair Witch itself were entirely fabricated by the producers themselves. Furthermore, other potentially identifiable landmarks from the Blair Witch story - Coffin Rock, the Black Hills, Black Rock Road, and the local convenience store - are not found in the real Burkittsville or the immediately surrounding area. A Black Rock Road and Black Hills can, however, be found in Montgomery County, Maryland, which is very possibly not a coincidence as Blair Witch filmmaker Eduardo Sanchez grew up there and is an alumnus of Montgomery College.
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Wikipedia Description: Burkittsville, Maryland
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Burkittsville is a town in Frederick County, Maryland, United States. The population was 171 at the 2000 census.

Geography:

Burkittsville is located at [show location on an interactive map] 39�23'29?N 77�37'38?W? / ?39.39139�N 77.62722�W? / 39.39139; -77.62722 (39.391459, -77.627099).

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.4 square miles (1.1 km�), all of it land.

History:

Burkittsville was first founded by two property owners: Major Joshua Harley and Henry Burkitt. The western half was first founded as "Harley's Post Office" in 1824. After Harley's passing in 1828, Burkitt renamed it Burkittsville. Over the next thirty years it grew as a community with stores, shops, blacksmiths, a schoolhouse, and a tannery.

On September 13, 1862, Confederate cavalry under command of Colonel Thomas Munford (under General J.E.B. Stuart) occupied Burkittsville. On Sunday, September 14, the forces of the Union and Confederate armies engaged in the Battle of Crampton's Gap, a bloody prelude to the Battle of Antietam. The Reformed and Lutheran churches and adjacent schoolhouse were used as hospitals for the more than 300 wounded of both sides. These buildings still stand today.

Routinely characterized as the trigger to Antietam, victory at Crampton’s Gap embodied Union Gen. George B. McClellan’s strategic reaction to his acquiring the legendary “Lost Order” at Frederick which disclosed Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s campaign movements. It was McClellan’s intention to “cut the enemy in two and beat him in detail”.

After seizing Crampton’s Gap Gen. William B. Franklin failed to relieve the besieged Union garrison at Harpers Ferry, and more importantly to prevent Confederate generals James Longstreet and “Stonewall” Jackson from reuniting at Sharpsburg. There Lee hastily stood his ground in the mammoth battle of Antietam, the war’s bloodiest day. President Abra ...More...
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