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Mostly German Jewish immigrants arranged a neighborhood in the mid-19th century, producing the Frederick Hebrew Parish in 1858. Later on the parish lapsed, but was reorganized in 1917 as a cooperative effort in between the older settlers and more recently shown up Eastern European Jews under the name Beth Sholom Parish. In 1905, Rev.

B. Hatcher began the First Baptist Church of Frederick. After the Civil War, the Maryland legislature developed racially segregated public centers by the end of the 19th century, re-imposing white supremacy. Black institutions were generally underfunded in the state, and it was not up until 1921 that Frederick developed a public high school for African Americans.

The building presently houses the Lincoln Grade School. click here to view the listing >> , a cemetery for complimentary blacks, was founded in 1851. Location [edit] Carroll Creek running through Baker Park, with the Joseph Dill Baker Carillon in the background Frederick lies in Frederick County in the northern part of the state of Maryland.

Today it lies at the junction of Interstate 70, Interstate 270, U.S. Route 340, U.S. Route 40, U.S. Path 40 Alternate and U.S. Path 15 (which runs northsouth). In relation to close-by cities, Frederick lies 46 miles (74 km) west of Baltimore, 49 miles (79 km) north and somewhat west of Washington, D.C., 24 miles (39 km) southeast of Hagerstown and 71 miles (114 km) southwest of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

426294, 77. 420403). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an overall area of 23. 96 square miles (62. 06 km2), of which 23. 79 square miles (61. 62 km2) is land and 0. 18 square miles (0. 47 km2) is water. The city's area is primarily land, with little areas of water being the Monocacy River, which runs to the east of the city, Carroll Creek (which goes through the city and triggers periodic floods, such as that during the summer of 1972 and fall of 1976), in addition to several community ponds and little city owned lakes, such as Culler Lake, a man-made small body of water in the downtown area.