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Tekesha Martinez, Hagerstown’s First Black Mayor

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Tekesha Martinez, Hagerstown’s First Black Mayor

During a special session and by a unanimous vote of the City Council on February 7, 2023, Tekesha Martinez was appointed the first African-American mayor of the City of Hagerstown (Washington County), Maryland. She succeeds Emily Keller who resigned the office to serve as Maryland Special Secretary of Opioid Response for newly elected Governor Wes Moore. Keller had also become the first woman to serve as Mayor in the city’s history.

Commemoration of 1956 Integration in Allegany County, Maryland schools

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On Tuesday evening, February 14, 2023 a ceremony was held at the Allegany County Board of Education noting the history of African American education within the county as well as commemorating the first African American students to graduate from an integrated Allegany County high school, this being Fort Hill in May 1956 with the students being Harold Hilton, William Peck and Judy Leath. This was following the 1954 landmark Supreme Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.

George's Creek Coal and Iron Company (Payroll November 1-15 1907, page 6)

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242 John McDonough Carpenter
243 Hugh Stevenson Laborer
244 Balfour Kelly Laborer
245 John Peebles Brakeman
246 Sam Brown Dumper
247 John Lewis Dumper
248 Thos Boyd Driver
249 Wm Burt Driver
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George's Creek Coal and Iron Company (All names on payroll November 1907)

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This is a listing of all names on the November 1-15, 1907 payroll for George's Creek Coal and Iron Company. To see the tons a miner dug, the deductions for rent, the smith and the doctor, go to the individual miner's record.

Some names are repeated. Both names are included as they may represent different individuals or show payments received by one individual for different task, for example mining and providing ties or props.