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The Morning Herald from Hagerstown, Maryland • Page 13

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Hagerstown, Maryland
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TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 1953 THE MORNING HERALD. HAGERSTOWN, MARYLAND Roving Reporter All In A Lifttimt wis Ltuncdot who had energy tad courage to lace ffcei Iwltin Spring History About -Thf famiiftt Helio Fiiendg; dangers tad bard work oo the froa- The Indian Springs District tiers. JacQiMW was a descendant of 1 laid out in and is famous for French Protestant refugees. its i. Soon stxter be -arrived -in -was) river along its southern; country, Jacques became associ-l passing beyond the dis-jated with Thomas JolmsoE, a rich triet at tic foot of PikskiB Mous- 1 mas ol Frederick County, aleadiag dtizen of Maryland, a friend of Washiagtoa as3 altervyards first governor of MarylaKi Aether- they ist the tais, Llddsg Creek, with many a tons," elite way through a rocky bed to Join the Potomae.

Is'-tfe Eastern part is Hearth- stone-Mounitia. Gatop of Ftirviewfof land with view, not only of Mountain parts of four states may speculating, but of improving the be "the 'summit, the douaty aad devolopiag its re- early way the Mountain sources. Souse for '-irayipllerfc Tbsy received s. large grant of is .725 feuniers region search of furs and pelts. There are many stories of their eombat with the: Delaware Istiians whose favorite honting grounds were along the Potoniac as4 the slopes of North Mountain.

Twenty years after thess piosssrs blazed the of the kills and valleys, acres of land were granted "fey the Galverts at Annapolis to their favorites. -Some of these-gentlemen set tip Iron blast: furnaces. One of these County where Furnace in ,1750. Late? they got 15,000 acres is the Indian Springs District and established the Green Spring furnace is 1765; 'There Lancelot Jacques buSt his home, part of which is still standing, not far from Fort The fcosse was Jmflt oi The Beit of Lowest Prices ftL Super Market 45 Baltimore St logs, clapboards and plaster, one story a huge stone chimney and a high Mp rool When furnace was in full blast, the hillside was dotted with the cabins of Ms numerof slaves, and the scene was one of beauty and activity. The iron manufactured in the furnace was pat os jthe canal at McCoy's ierry, hauled to the river and pushed down the river on flat boats by a crew of trusty Negroes.

The two men were very successful in their venture. Jacques married but had ao eMl- Patfonize Your. Municipal Eteetrie Light Plant Maintained for tht ef Citiztns and Taxpayers Hastrstftwn. Offiet Hours: A.M. Phone 765-786 drea, qiies a boy cf twelve, Irons England, asd made hist his heir.

I don't know, -bat I suppose he was a nephew, or perhaps younger brother. This young man ran the furnace antfl 1806. There was also a forge on Licking Creek that belonged to the Jacques family. Denton Jacques had two sons, Arthur and James, and two daughters, Catherine and Elizabeth. In 1848 the furnace was bought by J.

Bison Eoman and Co. There was no trace of it then but the crumbling rains of the stack. In 1864 Mr. Moses WMtson, B. Kaines and Mark Raines bought Green.

Spring Furnace and rebuilt it and worked it until 1874. Since then it has bees idle and vanished long ago. I have a friend, Mrs. Emma Hart iivinJFat Big Pool and daughter, Mrs. Ida Betts who told me her grandfather, Mr.

Hoof, used to work at Green Spring Furnace helping to bring the charcoal from the woods nearby. By 1882 Green Spring was flourishing village, containing Pleasant Grove Church and a school. A little town called Four Locks, in tte soirtheast, was named from the four cans! locks that were there, Indian Springs was not named until a post office was established Health Department Kcs Misny Visitors Washington County's Health Be- partment continutt as model for nurses and doctors from various of the U. S. and loreiga countriw.

Dr. W. Ross Cameroj! tn- ncunced the arrival Monday of Health Bepartmeat Peru, who will observe the workings of the various dicics and other facilities of the local hetlth department for a month. Last week the Health Depart-j nient was host to Dr. Jon Vaaj jStriea, of The Hague, Holland.

Mrs. Leila Vandergnft, a graduate of Memorial Hospital, Cumberland wiE leave Hagerstown this week, a month's training to ijois the Ailegany Health Department Dr. Wesley Metaier, Texas phy- jsieias, departed for WasMgtos over the weekend following a month's observation and orientation here in preparation for an assignment as public health adviser to Iras. COMPAR Aim nnw i -VI 1 there in 181S when opened. There was tfee pike was i hotel there Iten't Wolf Until Mifiutt Te Buy Your Hsiiday WK A ill 9S S.

ffft TM Aft" Markets Will QPSfN' UNTIL 9 Thursday, July 2nd 10 P. M. Friday, Jaiy 3rd CLOSED ALL DAY JULY 4TH REGULAR at the time which was used later as a store. The first settlers were probably the Hellars, who located on the Jacques and Johnson land. Boyd's Ferry, below McCoy's Ferry, was where Braddock was joined by the Virginia troeps which came up from Winchester.

'Millstone Point was owned by Dr. L. Jacques who was a surgeon in thfe Revolutionary Army and was with the araiy at Valley Forge. This estate later Ijelonged to William Moffet. Dr.

Jacques later built at Green Springs where he owned SQ0 seres of land. So Long, Aunt Susie Mrs. Susan Thomas) The first psrissssat sst in Ontario, Canada, were made by Tories who fied from the Unites States after the Revolutionary War. PLEASANT IS BURNED UP JACKSONVILLE, Fla. OB-Pieas- ant Weathers, 13, reported to police Ms bicycle was stolen during the recent heat wave.

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