LANDMARKS PLAQUES
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Upcoming in 2025
Schifferstadt Architectural Museum, 1110 Rosemont Avenue, Frederick, MD 21701
Saturday, October 18, 2025
Sunday, October 19, 2025
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Rain or shine! Free entry. Join us for our most popular event, an important fundraiser for the operation of our organization and upkeep of Schifferstadt. Come enjoy great food and drink, lively German music, historic demonstrators, tours of the museum, and hand-made products from many arts & crafts vendors. Our biggest event of the year!
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​Interested in volunteering? Contact volunteer@fredericklandmarks.org
Interested sponsors, please contact info@fredericklandmarks.org
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Museums by Candlelight
Saturday December 13, 2025
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FREE
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Museums by Candlelight is an annual event held simultaneously at various historic sites and museums around Frederick County each December and is sponsored by the Frederick Historic Sites Consortium.
Past Events
“The Johnson Family and Zion”
Please join us for our inaugural Zion Church and Cemetery History Speaker Series
with Amanda Venable Kramer & Kari Saavedra, Rose Hill Manor Park and Museums
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Saturday, March 30, 2024
11:00 a.m.
at Zion Church and Cemetery (a property of Frederick County Landmarks Foundation)
8998 Urbana Church Rd, just off Route 270 in Urbana.
FREE and open to all.
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Program Partners: Rose Hill Manor and FCPL Maryland Room
Recommended parking: Urbana Park and Ride North Lot
Please note that Zion does not have bathroom facilities.
“The Mount Olivet Stoners: How To Clean Tombstones”
Zion Church and Cemetery History Speaker Series
with Susan Cooper, Friends of Mount Olivet
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Join us to learn more about Mount Olivet’s volunteer tombstone cleaning program as we begin to plan how to keep Zion’s own graves neat and tidy.
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Saturday, April 20, 2024
2:00 p.m.
at Zion Church and Cemetery (a property of Frederick County Landmarks Foundation)
8998 Urbana Church Rd, just off Route 270 in Urbana.
FREE and open to all.
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Program Partners: Friends of Mount Olivet and FCPL Maryland Room
Recommended parking: Urbana Park and Ride North Lot
* Please note that Zion does not have bathroom facilities.
Frühlingsfest with maypole dancing at Schifferstadt
Schifferstadt Architectural Museum, 1110 Rosemont Avenue, Frederick, MD 21701
Saturday, May 3, 2025
2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Free (House tours $5)
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The Museum is reviving an old tradition, called Spring Fest in English, or Frühlingsfest in German! Dance the maypole, enjoy colonial children's games, German cookies, and join us for house tours. Frederick Sister Cities Association will be selling brats.
"The People and Events of Zion Church: 1802 - Today"
Zion Church and Cemetery History Speaker Series
with Bonnie Leins, Walkersville Society & Former FCLF Intern
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Join us and hear from the FCLF expert on the history of Zion! Bonnie has spent many years researching the Urbana area.
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Saturday, May 19, 2024
2:00 p.m.
at Zion Church and Cemetery (a property of Frederick County Landmarks Foundation)
8998 Urbana Church Rd, just off Route 270 in Urbana.
FREE and open to all.
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Program Partners: Walkersville Historical Society and FCPL Maryland Room
Recommended parking: Urbana Park and Ride North Lot
* Please note that Zion does not have bathroom facilities.
Independence Day at Schifferstadt
Schifferstadt Architectural Museum, 1110 Rosemont Avenue, Frederick, MD 21701
July 4, 2024
House Tours: 2:00pm - 6:00pm
Outdoor activities: 2:00pm - 8:00pm
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Step back in time to the era that spawned the war for independence. See the 1758 home of Elias Brunner, a pioneer settler who helped track violations of the trade embargo with Britain and whose descendants fought in Washington’s army. The family that escaped political oppression in the Old World was not about to accept it in their New World.
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Colonial era games for all ages, food and drink. House tours, of course.
"A Last Roll of the Dice: The Third Confederate Invasion - 1864"
Zion Church and Cemetery History Speaker Series
with Matt Borders, Park Ranger, Monocacy National Battlefield
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Sunday, July 28, 2024
2:00 p.m.
at Zion Church and Cemetery (a property of Frederick County Landmarks Foundation)
8998 Urbana Church Rd, just off Route 270 in Urbana.
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FREE and open to all.
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Program Partners: Monocacy National Battlefield and FCPL Maryland Room
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Recommended parking: Urbana Park and Ride North Lot
* Please note that Zion does not have bathroom facilities.
FCLF Annual Meeting and Election
Wednesday, November 20
5:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Downtown Community Room, Evangelical Reformed United Church of Christ
15 West Church Street, Frederick, Maryland
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We warmly invite you to join us for a delightful gathering of members, friends, docents, and volunteers.
The key speaker for the evening will be Mardelle Poffenberger, chair of the FCLF Barnstormers Committee. She will be presenting on the history and future of this important yearly fundraiser. This will provide an insider’s perspective whether you regularly attend Barnstormers as a visitor or docent or have not had the good fortune to join us on the day.
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We will also hear from the incoming president, Johannes Gross, of our affiliated organization, the Frederick Sister Cities Association.
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Election of officers will be held following the presentations. Light refreshments will be served. Donations are always appreciated.
We look forward to seeing you and sharing the wonderful work done by our members and volunteers during our 52nd year!
Museums by Candlelight - 2 locations!
Saturday December 14, 2024
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Schifferstadt Architectural Museum, downtown Frederick
1110 Rosemont Avenue, Frederick
12:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
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Zion Church and Cemetery, Urbana
8998 Urbana Church Road, Urbana (just off Exit 26 from Route 270)
12:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
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FREE
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Schifferstadt: Enjoy free children's activities, living history/demonstrations, music and refreshments while visiting Frederick's oldest house, a National Historic Landmark. As per custom, Frederick Sister Cities Association will be selling bratwursts and gluhwein in the summer kitchen at Schifferstadt. Consider exploring the Gift Shop for an opportunity to do some of your holiday shopping. You'll find a selection of period toys, paraphernalia, and books that could make for unique and thoughtful gifts.
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Zion Church: Visit the Sugarloaf Mountain area's first church consecrated in 1802. Learn about its unique history, enjoy some refreshments, and see it lit for the holidays.
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Museums by Candlelight is an annual event held simultaneously at various historic sites and museums around Frederick County each December and is sponsored by the Frederick Historic Sites Consortium.
Author Talk & Book Signing: "Defeating Slavery: Hamilton's American System Showed the Way"
Zion Church and Cemetery History Speaker Series
with Nancy B. Spannaus​
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Sunday, 26 January 2025
2:00 p.m.
at Zion Church and Cemetery (a property of Frederick County Landmarks Foundation)
8998 Urbana Church Rd, just off Route 270 in Urbana.
FREE and open to all.
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Come meet author Nancy Spannaus as she discusses the often-ignored early anti-slavery movement and how Alexander Hamilton's policies could have led to the movement's success. Slavery is not in America's DNA.
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Program Partner: FCPL Maryland Room
Recommended parking: Urbana Park and Ride North Lot
Please note that Zion does not have bathroom facilities.
Painting by Kristen Morrison
18th Annual Barnstormers Tour and Plein Air Paint Out
Presented by Frederick County Landmarks Foundation
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Saturday, June 14, 2025
“The Barns of Sabillasville"
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Barn Tour 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
Art Show and Sale, Music, Food 3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Visit eight unique barns on farms around the Sabillasville area.
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Rain or Shine
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Sponsored by
Horizon Farm Credit
www.horizonfc.com
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Fitzgerald’s Heavy Timber
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This popular self-guided tour of historic barns brings awareness to the public of Frederick County's strong agricultural heritage and how barns were constructed to last. Barn docents will greet ticket holders at each barn location to share information and answer questions. During this time, artists and crafters will be creating at the barns.
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In the morning, breakfast sandwiches, pastries and coffee will be sold at the local St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, 17015 Sabillasville Rd.
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From 12:00 noon -5:00 p.m., a bake sale and food trucks selling grilled cheese, sliders, and cold drinks will be at the host site.
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​From 3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m., tour goers are invited to the host site (Sabillasville Environmental School, 16210 Sabillasville Road, Sabillasville, MD), for a judged art show and art sale event while listening to old-time music performed by the Gravy Soppers. The art show and sale will start at 3:30 p.m.​
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Please leave your pets at home.
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Tickets are $20. Children under 12 are free. Each adult ticket buyer must wear a provided wristband to be admitted to the barn properties.
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DAY OF PURCHASE / WILL CALL SALE & PICKUP:
​On the day of the event, tickets will be available at the St. Mark’s Lutheran Church parking lot, 17015 Sabillasville Road, Sabillasville, from 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
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(Advance ticket sales have ended. Please purchase at event.)
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“Will call” tickets are to be picked up on the morning of the event, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 noon, at the St. Mark’s Lutheran Church parking lot, 17015 Sabillasville Road, Sabillasville.
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