Western Maryland

May 7, 2013

About a dozen miles north of Frederick, before you get to Thurmont, you’ll see some plain stone and log homes. They look old. They are old. They're part of what’s left of the village that used to surround an active iron furnace, the Catoctin Furnace.  

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