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Broad Run, Maryland

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storehouse at the crossroads which became the commercial center of the village for over a century, the last general store to operate there closing in the 1960s. After the Civil War, Manasses Grove established the M.J. Grove Lime Company, which became in its time one of the largest industries in Frederick County. Grove also served two terms in the Maryland House of Delegates from 1897–1891. The Broad Run Post Office was established on July 10, 1868 and operated until November 14, 1901. The village also had its own school.
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Church, met for worship services in the schoolhouses around the village for its first century of existence. The congregation erected a meeting house in 1876 a mile from the center of Broad Run. At that time, the church's name was changed to Pleasant View. The congregation continues to function today.
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who were discovered as conspirators with Great Britain. On July 25, 1781, Suman and the other conspirators were tried and convicted by Judges Alexander Contee Hanson, Col. James Johnson, and Upton Sheradine as traitors to the revolutionary cause. The men were sentenced to be hanged, drawn, and
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Broad Run developed into a local industrial center for the surrounding farms. The Isaac Bond Atlas of Frederick County, drawn in 1858, shows a saw mill and a grist mill were located along the Broad Run Creek in the village. In 1851, Manasses Jacob Grove, a native of Broad Run, built a brick
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The village of Broad Run was settled in the mid-18th century as English settlers moved west from the Frederick area and German settlers moved south from Pennsylvania. The earliest land tracts were surveyed in the 1740s and one of the first east–west roads through the Middletown Valley, the
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quartered in Frederick. On August 17, 1781, Suman and two other conspirators, Casper Fritchie and Yost Peckler, were executed in Frederick. The other four conspirators were pardoned by
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The Pleasant View Church of the Brethren was established in Broad Run in 1776. The congregation, originally known as the Broad Run
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During the American Revolutionary War, Peter Suman, a farmer from Broad Run, was one of seven residents of
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Pioneers of Old Monocacy: The Early Settlement of Frederick County, Maryland 1721-1743
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U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Broad Run, Maryland
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Unincorporated community in Maryland, United States
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Unincorporated community
Broad Run
Broad Run is located in Maryland
39°23′37″N 77°35′51″W / 39.39361°N 77.59750°W / 39.39361; -77.59750
Country
State
Maryland
County
Frederick
Time zone
UTC-5
Eastern (EST)
DST
UTC-4
Area code(s)
301 & 240
GNIS
unincorporated community
Frederick County
Maryland
Maryland Route 383
Middletown
Frederick County
Governor Thomas Sim Lee
Dunker or German Baptist


U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Broad Run, Maryland
ISBN
0-8063-1183-5

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