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1. FREDCH_181125_003.JPG: Frederick's Poet Lawyer Francis Scott Key Born in what was then northeast Frederick County, Key's parents first brought him to "Frederick-Town" to be baptized. His parents often rode to the county seat here. Key walked these streets whenever the family came to Frederick. After attending school in Annapolis and studying law for four years, Key opened a law office near here. He argued cases in the old court house where today's City Hall is located. He later appeared before the U.S. Supreme Court, and practiced law until the end of his life. Key's legal skills led him to a daring role during the Battle of Baltimore in 1814 where he negotiated the release of an American prisoner. His eloquence as a writer and poet gave us the "Star-Spangled Banner." Early Life of Francis Scott Key 1779 Francis Scott Key is born at Terra Rubra, his parent's estate, in what was then northeast Frederick County. 1789 After ten years growing up in Frederick County, Key attends St. John's Grammar School and then St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland. 1796 Key graduates from St. John's College at the top of his class, then studies law. 1801 Key begins his law career in Frederick. His college friend, Robert Brooke Taney, also practices law in Frederick, and later marries Key's sister Anne. 1802 Key marries Mary Tayloe Lloyd in Annapolis. 1803 Key moves to Washington, D.C., to become a partner in the law practice of his uncle, Phillip Barton Key. 1814 Key writes "The Star-Spangled Banner" which would become the national anthem of the United States in 1931. In 1840, Key, at age 61, came here to visit his aged cousin Eleanor Potts who was then totally blind. She lived on Council Street across the courtyard. Key promised her a poem, and she listened as he read the stanzas which included these lines: The "light of other days" was hers, Of happy days now past and gone, It called up friends long lov'd and mourn'd, And sweetly round her shone. Twas the, as by her side I sat, She softly touch'd the light guitar, And tones that had my childhood charm'd, Fell sweetly, sadly on my ear. Frederick in 1854 Trinity Chapel, visible to your right, marks the probable site of Key's baptism. In 1779 it was the German Reformed Church Frederick County's second courthouse -- the one Key knew -- was built here in 1785, but burned in 1861. The third courthouse, completed in 1862, is the building here today. It became Frederick's City Hall in 1985.
2. FREDCH_181125_006.JPG: Early Life of Francis Scott Key 1779 Francis Scott Key is born at Terra Rubra, his parent's estate, in what was then northeast Frederick County. 1789 After ten years growing up in Frederick County, Key attends St. John's Grammar School and then St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland. 1796 Key graduates from St. John's College at the top of his class, then studies law. 1801 Key begins his law career in Frederick. His college friend, Robert Brooke Taney, also practices law in Frederick, and later marries Key's sister Anne. 1802 Key marries Mary Tayloe Lloyd in Annapolis.
3. FREDCH_181125_009.JPG: 1801 Key begins his law career in Frederick. His college friend, Robert Brooke Taney, also practices law in Frederick, and later marries Key's sister Anne. 1802 Key marries Mary Tayloe Lloyd in Annapolis. 1803 Key moves to Washington, D.C., to become a partner in the law practice of his uncle, Phillip Barton Key. 1814 Key writes "The Star-Spangled Banner" which would become the national anthem of the United States in 1931.
4. FREDCH_181125_011.JPG: Frederick in 1854
5. FREDCH_181125_014.JPG: Frederick County's second courthouse -- the one Key knew -- was built here in 1785, but burned in 1861. The third courthouse, completed in 1862, is the building here today. It became Frederick's City Hall in 1985.
6. FREDCH_181125_020.JPG: Trinity Chapel, visible to your right, marks the probable site of Key's baptism. In 1779 it was the German Reformed Church In 1840, Key, at age 61, came here to visit his aged cousin Eleanor Potts who was then totally blind. She lived on Council Street across the courtyard. Key promised her a poem, and she listened as he read the stanzas which included these lines: The "light of other days" was hers, Of happy days now past and gone, It called up friends long lov'd and mourn'd, And sweetly round her shone. Twas the, as by her side I sat, She softly touch'd the light guitar, And tones that had my childhood charm'd, Fell sweetly, sadly on my ear.
7. FREDCH_181125_023.JPG: "South Magnetic"
8. FREDCH_181125_036.JPG: "Clarke" Fountain 101 N. Court St. Frederick, MD 21701 In the late 1890s, Courthouse Square, now Frederick's City Hall, was re-landscaped with an elaborate fountain fabricated by Variety Iron Works of York, PA. The fountain is topped with a sculpture of Cain and Abel at play, believed to have been created by J.W. Fiske Iron Works of New York, a prominent manufacturer of decorative cast iron. The fountain was rebuilt in 1965 and remains a delightful attraction.
9. FREDCH_181125_038.JPG: "Clarke" Fountain 101 N. Court St. Frederick, MD 21701 In the late 1890s, Courthouse Square, now Frederick's City Hall, was re-landscaped with an elaborate fountain fabricated by Variety Iron Works of York, PA. The fountain is topped with a sculpture of Cain and Abel at play, believed to have been created by J.W. Fiske Iron Works of New York, a prominent manufacturer of decorative cast iron. The fountain was rebuilt in 1965 and remains a delightful attraction.
10. FREDCH_181125_047.JPG: Two statues were removed from the park. One was the Bust of Thomas Johnson. The other was Roger Brooke Taney.
11. FREDCH_181125_062.JPG: In honor & memory of those lost on September 11, 2001 Dedicated September 11, 2003 by the City of Frederick
12. FREDCH_181125_067.JPG: City Hall Former Frederick County Courthouse -- Antietam Campaign 1862 -- Connections with the Civil War abound around this Courthouse Square, where the first official act of defiance against the British crown - the 1765 Stamp Act Repudiation - occurred almost a century earlier. In 1857, Roger Brooke Taney, Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court and a former resident who is buried in Frederick, wrote in the Dread Scott Decision that the Constitution's freedoms did not extend to African-Americans, one of the steps on the road to war. Taney and his brother-in-law, Francis Scott Key, both practiced law here. A bust here honors the Chief Justice who administered the Oath of Office to seven presidents, including Abraham Lincoln in 1861. Governor Thomas Hicks called a special session of the Maryland Legislature in 1861 to address the question of secession. Because of the large number of US troops in the capital city of Annapolis, the legislature met here at the site of the former Frederick County courthouse. Finding the space inadequate, the lawmakers convened a block away in Kemp Hall. Under orders from President Lincoln, legislators likely to favor the South were detained in route. With no quorum, Maryland's legislature could not vote to secede. The courthouse burned during the session, and the legislature promptly authorized financing to construct the present building, now City Hall. Both Confederate Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson and President Lincoln were visitors to this neighborhood in 1862. The reconstructed home of Barbara Fritchie, poet John Greenleaf Whittier's Civil War heroine, is reached by traveling one block south on Court Street, then one block west on Patrick Street. Map: A. Kemp Hall B. Old City Hall C. Trinity Chapel (Barbara Fritchie was baptized here) D. Evangelical Reformed Church (Stonewall Jackson reportedly slept here during a pro-Lincoln September 1862 sermon) E. Taney Bust F. All Saints Episcopal Church (C.S. Gen. William Pendleton, a noted Confederate artillery commander, was formerly the rector here) G. City Hall (1862 County Courthouse) H. Ramsey House (President Lincoln visited here in October 1862, calling on U.S. Gen. George Hartsuff who was recuperating from wounds suffered at Antietam)
13. FREDCH_181125_073.JPG: Roger B. Taney, by Henry Ulke
14. FREDCH_181125_075.JPG: Map: A. Kemp Hall B. Old City Hall C. Trinity Chapel (Barbara Fritchie was baptized here) D. Evangelical Reformed Church (Stonewall Jackson reportedly slept here during a pro-Lincoln September 1862 sermon) E. Taney Bust F. All Saints Episcopal Church (C.S. Gen. William Pendleton, a noted Confederate artillery commander, was formerly the rector here) G. City Hall (1862 County Courthouse) H. Ramsey House (President Lincoln visited here in October 1862, calling on U.S. Gen. George Hartsuff who was recuperating from wounds suffered at Antietam)
15. FREDCH_181125_078.JPG: The 1752 Courthouse, by Isaac Bond, Map of Frederick County, 1858
16. FREDCH_181125_081.JPG: No to the Stamp! "The STAMP-ACT having received a mortal wound by the Hands of Justice, on Saturday last gave up the Ghost, to the great joy of the Inhabitants of Frederick County. The lifeless body lay exposed to public Ignominy 'til Yesterday, when it was thought proper, for preventing infection-from its stench to bury it in the following manner..." -- Excerpt from the account appearing in the Maryland Gazette December 16, 1765 This British seal was to be stamped on all paper. The Stamp Act served as tax to recoup payment for the protection given to the American colonies by the Crown during the French and Indian War. Burying the Act The Sons of Liberty staged a funeral procession that carried the "deceased" Stamp Act -- placed in a coffin -- through the principal streets of town to the courthouse square where a gallows had been erected. An effigy (dummy shown above) representing the tax collector, was buried with the Stamp Act. A detailed report of this event appearing in the Maryland Gazette would be reprinted in papers throughout the colonies including Boston, New York and Philadelphia. On November 30th, 1765, Frederick County citizens assembled here, where their first courthouse stood. They were showing support for the daring action taken a week earlier in which Justices of Frederick County repudiated (rejected) the Crown's new law forcing the colonies to use taxed stamped paper for all business transactions. The deed by the Justices would later be considered the first rebellious act of defiance by an official body toward British Parliament and the King of England. Outspoken Annapolis printer Jonas Green used a "death's head" stamp in his Maryland Gazette to protest the Stamp Act, which also required publishers to use taxed paper. Note that the Maryland Gazette front page (above) from October of that year bears the symbol.
17. FREDCH_181125_086.JPG: Burying the Act The Sons of Liberty staged a funeral procession that carried the "deceased" Stamp Act -- placed in a coffin -- through the principal streets of town to the courthouse square where a gallows had been erected. An effigy (dummy shown above) representing the tax collector, was buried with the Stamp Act. A detailed report of this event appearing in the Maryland Gazette would be reprinted in papers throughout the colonies including Boston, New York and Philadelphia.
18. FREDCH_181125_089.JPG: Outspoken Annapolis printer Jonas Green used a "death's head" stamp in his Maryland Gazette to protest the Stamp Act, which also required publishers to use taxed paper. Note that the Maryland Gazette front page (above) from October of that year bears the symbol.
19. FREDCH_181125_094.JPG: On November 30th, 1765, Frederick County citizens assembled here, where their first courthouse stood. They were showing support for the daring action taken a week earlier in which Justices of Frederick County repudiated (rejected) the Crown's new law forcing the colonies to use taxed stamped paper for all business transactions. The deed by the Justices would later be considered the first rebellious act of defiance by an official body toward British Parliament and the King of England.
20. FREDCH_181125_095.JPG: This British seal was to be stamped on all paper. The Stamp Act served as tax to recoup payment for the protection given to the American colonies by the Crown during the French and Indian War.
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