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FREDERICK TOWN
"THE GARDEN SPOT OF MARYLAND"
By SARA ANDREW SHAFER
Long after the lower counties and the eastern
shore of Maryland had been turned
from a wilderness into a rich and prosperous
country, and after Annapolis had grown to be
one of the most brilliant and important cities of
the New World, there lay in the western part of
the domain granted to the Calverts and their
heirs forever a vast and beautiful region, which
was not only Terra Mariæ, but terra incognita
as well. Noble mountains, the remains of far
older and nobler Alps, guarded the valleys
worn by innumerable streams, and rich with
the detritus of uncounted ages of erosion.
Vegetation flourished under the kindly skies,
and green things of every kind, from loftiest
oaks to humblest mosses, grew in rank luxuriance
over the heritage of the wild creatures of
