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Celebrating 50+ Years
Reflections: A Look At Williamsport, MD Through Stories and Photos
By Suanne Woodring
Reminisce with us as we look back on the memories of a few of Washington County's residents. Excerpts featured here are from the current Spring 2025 issue.
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Maryland Cracker Barrel Magazine: Sentinel of Washington County's Heritage
"...The photos in the 1970s tour of Williamsport are part of a series of slides that well known local educator, Mary Michael, compiled into what she called Community studies. She visited many of the towns and villages in Washington County took photos and put them together into slide presentations (the equivalent of today’s power point presentation). She used the presentations with students in classrooms, organizations, community groups, etc...."
"....In 1922, when my mom, Julia, was about six years old, her big sister, Ida, married David Cushwa, Jr. at St. Mary’s Church in Hagerstown. David Jr. had grown up living in Williamsport, with his parents and two sisters, at
6 North Artizan Street. That home was a two-story house that still shares a side wall with the historic Wolf residence at 41-43 E. Potomac Street. That little house became the first home of the newlyweds, David, Jr. and Ida. His parents had a new house built farther out East Potomac Street; it was made of Cushwa bricks, of course! Soon thereafter, David, Jr., and Ida’s five Cushwa children were born. The eldest one, a son named David K. Cushwa, III, was nicknamed “Young David,” then came the three sisters: Mary Jane, Louisa, Joan, and finally, another son, John...."
Window to Yesterday:
Cushwa Girl’s Childhood Memories of Williamsport and Hagerstown, MD
By Susan Hankey-Webb
