Held annually on the second Saturday of December, Heritage Frederick joins with our colleagues at the many fascinating historical sites and museums around Frederick County for a special holiday open house. This is the last chance to see our feature exhibits before they close for the season. Refreshments and holiday trimmings lend a special spirit ... Read more
Join us the day after Thanksgiving for FREE children’s activities! Sip on a warm beverage while you play games in our garden or create a keepsake ornament. The Museum will be decked out for the holidays! HF’s Frosty Friday activities coincide with special events in Downtown Frederick including live music, marshmallow roasting, and specials at ... Read more
This FREE ice cream social is happening compliments of the volunteers of Heritage Frederick. Ice cream will be served and good old fashioned games will take place in the Heritage Frederick Garden, which is located behind the big white house/museum at 24 East Church Street. Please enter through the parking lot next to Winchester Hall, ... Read more
Join us for a talk by Mallory Huard, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, History, Hood College on the topic of "Home Sewn, Home Grown: Domesticity and Capitalism in Mid-19th Century Frederick." In this talk, Mallory will explore how women’s unpaid domestic labor helped support the emergence of industrialized capitalism in Frederick County. In the early-mid 1800s, men’s ... Read more
Hosted by Heritage Frederick The Williams Observatory at Hood College is a historical structure listed on the National Register and a local landmark for early STEM education for women in Frederick. The college is looking to rehabilitate the structure to make it a working astronomical observatory once more while also converting it to house the ... Read more
Welcome to the Holiday Season! Frederick is known as a town of places of worship, why else would we be called “the Clustered Spires”? So which one was first? How did the earliest German Fredericktonians celebrate Christmas, or Hanukkah? How did the African American community celebrate Kwanzaa? Take a walk with me and the Ghost ... Read more
Join us for a tour of the town! This walking tour will include the history of Frederick from the native habitation up until now. Rain or Shine. No Walk ins Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/historic-frederick-walking-tour-tickets-166095196203
The buildings in downtown Frederick cover centuries of architecture history. From the Greek Classical Style Winchester Hall to the French Beaux Arts Square corners, there is much more about the town than people know to look for. Join us and learn. Rain or Shine. No Walk ins Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/art-and-architecture-walking-tour-tickets-166095806027
Join us for a tour of the town! This walking tour will include the history of Frederick from the native habitation up until now. Rain or Shine. No Walk ins Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/historic-frederick-walking-tour-tickets-166095196203
Man the Cannons! We're taking you back through time to when the roads were dirt and soldiers marched through the streets of Frederick. The Civil War was tough on the nation. But most people don't think Frederick could have been the center of it all. But, for a while, it was. Rain or Shine. No ... Read more