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This museum has much to recommend, including amputations, embalming, a mummified human arm, and ghosts.
Roadsideamerica.com Report...
- Address:
- 48 E. Patrick St., Frederick, MD
- Directions:
- Downtown. I-70 exit 56. Drive west into town on Hwy 144/E. Patrick St. The museum will be on the left (south) side, a block past the stoplight at Carroll St. Just past the museum is the entrance to the downtown parking garage.
- Hours:
- M-Sa 10-4:15, Su 11-4:15 (Call to verify) Local health policies may affect hours and access.
- Phone:
- 301-695-1864
- Admission:
- Adults $9.50
- RA Rates:
- Major Fun
- Frederick, Maryland - Arm of the Unknown Soldier: A Friendly Wave
National Museum of Civil War Medicine:It's been years since we last glimpsed the Arm of the Unknown Soldier, a grisly Civil War relic displayed in a box at the long-gone Antietam Battlefield Museum in Sharpsburg, Maryland.
[02/29/2012] Complete Story...
I found the artistry of the monument nice. A small airport was right across the street. I liked that there was parking.
[KG, 01/28/2023]Jug Bridge Monument: Oldest in USA?:- Address:
- East Patrick St., Frederick, MD
- Directions:
- Take exit 56 off I-70, and head west on East Patrick Street. If you are exiting eastbound I-70, it will be on your right; if exiting westbound I-70, it will be on your left. At intersection of Bowmans Farm Road and Patrick St. There is a parking lot.
Small parking lot provides safe, easy access. Location also has a plaque identifying the spot where in 1824, General Lafayette made an address to express his thanks to the delegation that came to escort him into the city of Frederick.
[Salty, 06/04/2017]This National Road era jug-shaped monument, at one end of the bridge crossing the Monocacy River in Frederick, earned it the name "Jug Bridge." It was built in 1808 by Leonard Harbaugh for $55,000.
The monument resembles a demijohn, a popular 19th century whiskey decanter. Rumors persisted that a real whiskey jug was accidentally sealed inside the monument.
When the bridge collapsed in 1942, the stone jug monument was moved to its current location.
[Julie Mangin, 04/22/2012]
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