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Standing on hallowed ground
Originally published November 17, 2007
By Nicholas C. Stern
News-Post Staff
BUCKEYSTOWN -- Looking out this week at the barns that dot the rolling landscape in southern Frederick County, Mary Harris narrated a story about freed black slaves.
After emancipation in the 1860s, freed slaves began taking up residence in the shacks where they had dried tobacco, Harris said.