Sykesville is a different place because of Mrs. Thelma Wimmer, Official Historian and Patron Saint. Down on Main Street, Main Street businesses and personalities from times past. It will have nearly 200 photographs, most never published before, and chapters on the Railroad, People, Springfield Hospital, Jones Sisters, Business and Industry, among others. Edited by our own Bill Hall and ready in September. Summer is for Kids For kids entering grades 2-5.
Space is limited.
At the beginning of the new year, the Gate House Museum had donated, from its' archives an original letter from Frank Brown. At the time the letter was written, Brown had completed two terms in the State House, was Baltimore's Postmaster and was setting his sights on the Governor's Mansion. The letter is addressed to Dr. P. R. Woods of Baltimore and is dated October 8th, 1888. It was purchased by Bob McLeod of Norris Avenue in Sykesville and became the Museum's first accession for 2001. The story continues on Sykesville in this report from the Westminister Democratic Advocate newspaper dated October 6, 1888.