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Please enjoy this brief history of the
Adamstown, MD, area.
A Brief History of Adamstown, Maryland
Cooling Springs Farm, located three miles
north of the Potomac River in Frederick County, Maryland, is
one of only a small handful of Underground Railroad
safe-houses still known today in border or southern state of
the United States. Cooling Springs Farm was operated by the
Michael family as a safe-house and route on the Underground
Railroad from at least 1855, and possibly as early as 1842,
until the end of the Civil War in 1865. An unknown number
of freedom seekers escaping slavery were sheltered by the
Michael family at the farm Spring House, the actual
safe-house of the Underground Railroad.
Cooling Springs Farm was founded by
Andrew Michael, a Swiss immigrant, and his wife Barbara in
1768. Andrew was the son of the Swiss explorer Franz Ludwig
Michel who was one of the first European explorers of
Frederick County around 1701-1705, and who founded New Bern,
North Carolina in 1709. Andrew was one of four brothers who
immigrated to Frederick County, Maryland, in the mid-1700s.
Today, Cooling Springs Farm is owned by Peter and Vicki
Michael who are the seventh generation of the Michael family
at Cooling Springs, a record of longevity of ownership by
one family not matched by many other properties in the
United States. After purchasing Cooling Springs in 2001,
Peter and Vicki Michael began restoration of Cooling Springs
Farm and its spring house used by the Michael family as the
actual safe-house on the Underground Railroad, and have made
it and Cooling Springs Farm available to the general public.

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