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Westminster, Maryland
Westminster is a city in and the county seat of Carroll County, Maryland, United States. The city's population was 19,960 at the 2020 census. Westminster is an outlying community in the Baltimore metropolitan area, which is part of the greater Washington–Baltimore combined statistical area.
William Winchester (1706-1790) purchased approximately 167 acres of land in the area in 1754, which became known as White's Level and later the town of Winchester. In 1768, the Maryland General Assembly changed the name of the town to Westminster to avoid confusion with Winchester, Virginia.
On June 28, 1863, the Civil War skirmish of Corbit's Charge was fought in the streets of Westminster, when two companies of Delaware cavalry attacked a much larger Confederate force under General J. E. B. Stuart. This action delayed Stuart's forces from their joining the Battle of Gettysburg.
In April 1865, Joseph Shaw, editor for the Western Maryland Democrat, suffered an attack at his paper: his presses were wrecked and his business destroyed. He was subsequently beaten and stabbed to death by four men in Westminster, allegedly because of an anti-Lincoln editorial that he published the week before the assassination of the president. In a later trial at the Westminster Court House, the four men were acquitted; they had claimed "self-defense" in their case.[citation needed]
Since 1868, Westminster has held an annual Memorial Day parade, which is one of the longest continuously running Memorial Day parades in the country.
Just north of Westminster is the farm at which Whittaker Chambers hid the so-called "Pumpkin Papers" in a notorious mid-20th century case.
A historic marker states that Westminster was the first place in the nation to offer Rural Free Delivery postal service.
On March 10, 2006, members of the Westboro Baptist Church picketed the funeral of Matthew A. Snyder at St. John Catholic Church in Westminster. He had been killed in the Iraq War. Snyder's father sued the Baptist church for violating his privacy; the United States Supreme Court ruled in favor of the church on free speech grounds in Snyder v. Phelps.
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Westminster, Maryland
Westminster is a city in and the county seat of Carroll County, Maryland, United States. The city's population was 19,960 at the 2020 census. Westminster is an outlying community in the Baltimore metropolitan area, which is part of the greater Washington–Baltimore combined statistical area.
William Winchester (1706-1790) purchased approximately 167 acres of land in the area in 1754, which became known as White's Level and later the town of Winchester. In 1768, the Maryland General Assembly changed the name of the town to Westminster to avoid confusion with Winchester, Virginia.
On June 28, 1863, the Civil War skirmish of Corbit's Charge was fought in the streets of Westminster, when two companies of Delaware cavalry attacked a much larger Confederate force under General J. E. B. Stuart. This action delayed Stuart's forces from their joining the Battle of Gettysburg.
In April 1865, Joseph Shaw, editor for the Western Maryland Democrat, suffered an attack at his paper: his presses were wrecked and his business destroyed. He was subsequently beaten and stabbed to death by four men in Westminster, allegedly because of an anti-Lincoln editorial that he published the week before the assassination of the president. In a later trial at the Westminster Court House, the four men were acquitted; they had claimed "self-defense" in their case.[citation needed]
Since 1868, Westminster has held an annual Memorial Day parade, which is one of the longest continuously running Memorial Day parades in the country.
Just north of Westminster is the farm at which Whittaker Chambers hid the so-called "Pumpkin Papers" in a notorious mid-20th century case.
A historic marker states that Westminster was the first place in the nation to offer Rural Free Delivery postal service.
On March 10, 2006, members of the Westboro Baptist Church picketed the funeral of Matthew A. Snyder at St. John Catholic Church in Westminster. He had been killed in the Iraq War. Snyder's father sued the Baptist church for violating his privacy; the United States Supreme Court ruled in favor of the church on free speech grounds in Snyder v. Phelps.