African Americans History

This photograph, taken in the fall of 1963 , depicts some members of the Allegany High School football team. Included are, front row, left to right: John Keiley, Allen Foley, and Fred Shank. In the back row, left to right are Pat Chorpenning, Larry Miller, Mike Miller, Don Saylor, and Danny Darr (Class of 1965). Darr also played on the State Champion Allegany High School basketball team.

This photograph of Allegany High School football players, taken on November 20, 1966 include,

Front Row: John Lange, George Lanigan, Mike Mason, Earl Paul, Moe Rosenbaum, Gary Robinette, and Kevin Sellars
Back Row, left to right: Terry Ashby (Class of 1968), Ralph Leasure, Tom Beyer, and Bob Sell

UPDATE: Terry Ashby was born in 1950 and passed away in 2018. The following is an excerpt from an obituary that appeared in the January 6, 2018 edition of the Cumberland Times-News:

MLK Day Jamboree packed with activities
All-day event set at Williams Street church

MARIA SMITH

CUMBERLAND —

Acknowledgements

A multi-award-winning regional amateur public historian, Albert Louis Feldstein has since 1980 successfully published over thirty books, prints, and videotapes depicting the history of all three western Maryland Counties - Allegany, Garrett and Washington, as well as nearby West Virginia. His works have focused upon such varied subjects as historic postcards, newspapers, floods, gravesites, coal mining, railroads, community histories, women's history, black history, and tour guides to historic sites.

Bethel A.M.E. Church Relocation Groundbreaking

On Saturday morning, June 25, 2022 over one-hundred people attended the official groundbreaking for the Bethel African American Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church that will soon be relocated to a site in Mountain Lake Park, Maryland.

Boonsboro church pays tribute to former slaves

All eight founding members of St. Mark's Episcopal Church on Lappans Road were slaveholders, and members of the church in the 1800s profited from slave labor. And it is believed that slaves might have helped construct the church.

Smooth, spirit-filled harmonies of rhythmic gospel music sailed from the stage at Bridge of Life Church Saturday as the Friends of the Doleman Black Heritage Museum hosted the fifth annual Doleman Black Heritage Museum Celebration of Black History.

The theme of the celebration was honoring the churches of the historically black neighborhood of Jonathan Street in Hagerstown.

Reggie Turner, interim president of the museum, said the churches represent the community.

Waldon United Methodist Church

Colored Church Being Razed

The abandoned colored church, near the Oakland cemetery, is being razed by Simon Swartzentruber, of Gortner. The lumber will be used to erect a repair shop at his farm home. The property was recently purchased by Mrs. Nellie Maffett in an arrangement with the town so that Fifth street, north of Green street, might be straightened so as to run parallel the entire length of the street. At the present time, should the street be widened, it would cut off the front yard of the Maffett property, adjoining the Episcopal Church.