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Our annual Corn Roast festival is this coming Saturday, 8/3. Join us for an old-fashioned meal featuring corn roasted in the husk, served at your table at the historic Union Mills Homestead! unionmills.org/events/corn-ro…

Congrats to EAC's archaeological team for their important work uncovering history at the Hammond-Harwood House in Annapolis!

The Union Mills Homestead community fondly remembers Homestead Foundation charter member and Shriver descendant, Jeannette "Lassie" Jones Wiedmann, who died peacefully at her home in Baltimore on August 5, 2024, at 100 years of age.

A piece in the Carroll County Times highlights a planned electric transmission line's adverse impact on historic properties, including the Union Mills Homestead Historic District.

Join us at the Union Mills Homestead for our Music on the Millrace event with a bluegrass concert Sun. 8/25 at 3 pm. Just $10 admission. unionmills.org/music-on-the-m…

A piece by Executive Director Kyle Dalton about Harry Shriver's misadventures in the Spanish American War. You can see an exhibit related to Harry Shriver this summer at the Historical Society of Carroll County.

Join us for the Maryland Microbrewery Festival at Union Mills on 9/28. Celebrating craft #mdbeer and history! Once a 19th century tavern, the Union Mills historic site is an ideal place for this great event unionmills.org/events/marylan…

Long lost taverns in what is now Carroll County reflect the area's location along key 19th century transportation corridors.

The Union Mills Homestead Foundation opposes the Maryland Piedmont Reliability Project (MPRP) due to the planned electric transmission line's adverse impact on historic resources including the Union Mills Homestead Historic District. unionmills.org/union-mills-ho…

Great piece by Mimi Ashcraft about Carroll County canneries including the B.F. Shriver Canning Co., founded right here at Union Mills!

Dayhoff: Since 1883, bike riding has proved popular in Carroll County baltimoresun.com/2024/09/21/day…

Sad news: The Maryland Microbrewery Festival at Union Mills (scheduled for 9/28) has been canceled. The Union Mills historic site is an ideal place for this great event but unfortunately the grounds can't handle the vehicles and crowds after all the wet weather.

Join us Sat. 10/5, from 9 AM to noon at Exploration Commons CCPL in Downtown Westminster for the Fall History Expo! We will have a display along with other local history groups. A great opportunity for students to pick topics for National History Day projects!

Guten Tag! An NFL game in Germany is a reminder of our proud German heritage as we look forward to the Union Mills Christkindlmarkt - just two weeks away, on Saturday, November 23, 2024. We hope you can join us!

A wonderful piece by Mimi Ashcraft looking back on all those who helped her with Carroll Yesteryears columns over the years! Congrats, Mimi, on your contributions to the research of local history!

Celebrate the 125 year history of Westminster High School during the Historical Society of Carroll County's annual Carroll County birthday party at Grace Lutheran Church in Westminster on Jan. 25!

We love grains, a huge part of our story! Reps from Union Mills are attending the '25 Mid-Atlantic Grain Conference in Leesburg VA. The conference brings together artisans like farmers, millers, maltsters, bakers, brewers, & distillers, to strengthen the regional grain economy.

Carroll County is continuing its celebration of spring with the 55th Annual Flower and Plant Market, May 2-4 and the Sykesville Art and Wine Festival, May 3. bit.ly/4iKMz2p

The Union Mills Homestead's Flower & Plant Market starts today at 11 am and continues through Sunday, May 4. Many different varieties of carefully-selected flowers, plants, vegetables, herbs, shrubs and trees, with many native plants. Join us!

At the Union Mills Homestead, we specialize in the power of place! Our historic site is open 6 days a week (closed Mondays) thru August, inspiring visitors with authentic stories of Maryland's Shriver family over multiple successive generations of innovation and change.