Women's suffrage in Western Maryland

Local women from western Maryland dedicated themselves to spreading word of the women’s suffrage movement long before Maryland voted to ratify the 19th Amendment. In Washington and Allegany counties organizing was slow, but steady. Garrett County got a boost with the Just Government League organizing an eleven day hike around the county by a group of 7 women who held meetings thoughout the county in 1914.  After the 19th Amendment was ratified on August 18, 1920, there was a flurry of activity in the three counties to register women, educate them about voting and then lobby them to vote in their parties interests.