Adamstown

History

Adamstown lies in the fertile valley between Sugarloaf and Catoctin Mountain on the former Carrollton Manor, a estate originally owned by Charles Carroll of Carrollton. Until 2000, it was a little-altered representative of mid-19th century linear town planning. It is significant in architecture for its variety of structures, including residential, commercial, industrial, educational, agricultural, and religious buildings. The late 18th century road from Jefferson to Greenfield Mills on the Monocacy River, originally called the Bridal Road, followed the route of the present-day Mountville Road. The 1832 arrival of the railroad to the manor created the economic and transportation impetus for the development of the community. Adamstown was first known as "Davis' Warehouse" because Dr. Meredith Davis, a leading Quaker county miller, built a warehouse about 1835 where Mountville Road, by then called Jefferson Road, crossed the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad ( southwest of Frederick) to store flour from his Greenfield Mills. The first settler in Adamstown was Robert Palmer, an African American "post and railer" who also ran a general store around 1835. In 1840 when Adam Kohlenburg was appointed the first Baltimore and Ohio railway agent, the community became known as "Adamstown", after his given name. He was also the first postmaster and ran a general store located in the lot between his brick Italianate-style home and the railroad. Edward Hebb laid off lots on the north side of the railroad in the 1840s. Daniel Rhodes of Pennsylvania, the first white settler, was so impressed with the location, he bought a tract of land and laid it off into 12 building lots on the south side of the railroad in 1856. With Adamstown located close to the Potomac River and Virginia, its…

Geography

Adamstown is located in southern Frederick County southwest of Frederick, the county seat, and northeast of the Potomac River at Point of Rocks. * Maryland Route 85

Race & ethnicity

Largest nearby schools

• Gov. Thomas Johnson High
  High · Frederick · 1,962 students · 18.5:1 ratio
• Urbana High
  High · Ijamsville · 1,940 students · 21.6:1 ratio
• Frederick High
  High · Frederick · 1,829 students · 17.9:1 ratio
• Tuscarora High
  High · Frederick · 1,717 students · 19.3:1 ratio
• Urbana Middle
  Middle · Ijamsville · 1,128 students · 19.1:1 ratio
• Brunswick High
  High · Brunswick · 862 students · 19.6:1 ratio
• Waverley Elementary
  Elementary · Frederick · 844 students · 13:1 ratio
• Sugarloaf Elementary
  Elementary · Frederick · 828 students · 18.8:1 ratio