BGuthrie Photos: MD -- I-270 @ Frederick -- Scenic Vista (that isn't)

MD -- I-270 @ Frederick -- Scenic Vista (that isn't):

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[1] I270FR_160905_01_STITCH.JPG

[2] I270FR_160905_02_STITCH.JPG

[3] I270FR_160905_04_STITCH.JPG

[4] I270FR_160905_05.JPG	[5] I270FR_160905_11.JPG	[6] I270FR_160905_15.JPG
[7] I270FR_160905_20.JPG	[8] I270FR_160905_26.JPG	[9] I270FR_160905_36.JPG
[10] I270FR_160905_39.JPG	[11] I270FR_160905_42.JPG	[12] I270FR_160905_44.JPG
[13] I270FR_160905_47.JPG	[14] I270FR_160905_51.JPG	[15] I270FR_160905_61.JPG
[16] I270FR_160905_68.JPG	[17] I270FR_160905_72.JPG

Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. I270FR_160905_05.JPG: History of the Monocacy River Valley The earliest inhabitants of the Monocacy River Valley lived here about 12,000 years ago. These Native Americans lived in territorial, semi-nomadic groups dependent upon hunting, fishing, and food gathering. When European settlers first came to Maryland, they encountered Native Americans who depended upon farming and who had established villages, being less reliant on hunting and gathering. River valleys such as the Monocacy provided desirable settlement areas, and by the time of permanent European settlement, the Native Americans had been forced to move west. The German and British settlers brought with them distinctive building styles. The German tradition of stone and timber construction can still be seen in the Monocacy Valley with fine examples such as Scheifferstadt (built ca. 1736) in Frederick. British settlers utilized more brick than stone in construction. The Monocacy River Valley was opened for settlement in 1730, when Frederick Calvert, sixth Lord Baltimore, offered free land in the area to attract settlers. People of German descent came from Pennsylvania, following the Monocacy River Valley south. English and Scotch-Irish settlers came from Southern Maryland and present day Montgomery County.
2. I270FR_160905_20.JPG: The Battle That Saved Washington The Battle of Monocacy took place on July 9, 1864, in the valley before you. The battle pitted North against South, and Washington, D.C., was the prize. Richmond and Petersburg were endangered, but the Southern leader, General Robert E. Lee had sent General Early north to threaten Washington, D.C., at least to force the Union commander at Richmond, Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant, to send soldiers back to defend the Capital. The Battle of Monocacy was fought on Saturday, July 9, 1864. The Union forces were heavily outnumbered, about 18,000 to 6,000. Union General Lew Wallace gave battle to delay the Southern forces until Northern reinforcements could reach Washington, D.C. The fighting started in mid-morning and continued throughout the day. In the late afternoon when Southern troops in battle line streamed out of the woods on Brooks Hill, broke the Northern lines and forced Wallace's small force back towards Baltimore. The way to Washington was open, but it was too late. General Grant summed up the importance of the valiant effort by outnumbered Northerners. "They met the enemy, and, as might have been expected, were defeated; but they succeeded in stopping him for the day on which the battle took place... If Early had been put one day earlier he might have entered the capital before the arrival of the reinforcements I had sent."
3. I270FR_160905_36.JPG: Clustered Spires of Frederick John Greenleaf Whittier immortalized Barbara Fritchie and the town of Frederick in his poem about the elderly Frederick resident who supposedly displayed the Union flag as Southern soldiers marched by on September 10, 1862. On July 9, 1864, Confederate General Jubal Early held up the town! "...we are going to make a demand upon the banks Frederick of $200,000, and if the demand is granted, very good, if not then the town will be reduced to ashes." The Mayor, Alderman, and Common Council of Frederick borrowed the money from the five local banks and the town was spared. The final payment on the loans was made in 1951. In the same poem Whittier described the town and the surrounding valley:
```
Up from the meadows rich with corn, 
Clear in the cool September morn, 

The clustered spires of Frederick stand
Green-walled by the hills of Maryland, 

Round about them orchards sweep,
Apple and peach-tree fruited deep,

Fair as a garden of the Lord...
John Greenleaf Whittier
```
4. I270FR_160905_42.JPG: Confederate soldiers marching through Frederick
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