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Mostly German Jewish immigrants organized a neighborhood in the mid-19th century, creating the Frederick Hebrew Congregation in 1858. Later the churchgoers lapsed, but was rearranged in 1917 as a cooperative effort in between the older inhabitants and more just recently arrived Eastern European Jews under the name Beth Sholom Parish. In 1905, Rev.

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

The structure currently houses the Lincoln Primary School. The Laboring Kids Memorial Premises, a cemetery for complimentary blacks, was established in 1851. Geography [modify] 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. Rust Enterprises LLC , U.S. Path 40 Alternate and U.S. Path 15 (which runs northsouth). In relation to neighboring cities, Frederick lies 46 miles (74 km) west of Baltimore, 49 miles (79 km) north and slightly 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 location is primarily land, with small locations of water being the Monocacy River, which goes to the east of the city, Carroll Creek (which goes through the city and triggers regular floods, such as that during the summertime of 1972 and fall of 1976), in addition to a number of area ponds and small city owned lakes, such as Culler Lake, a manufactured small body of water in the downtown area.