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One of the first towns settled in northwestern Maryland,
FREDERICK , at the junction of I-70 and I-270
an hour west of Baltimore, was laid out in 1745 by German farmers
lured from Pennsylvania by the promise of cheap fertile land.
It grew to become a main stopover on the route west to the Ohio
Valley, and the bulk of today's tidy town survives from the early
1800s. A visitor center (daily 9am-5pm; tel 301/228-2888
or 1-800/999-3613) at 19 E Church St has walking tour maps of
the town, pointing out such places as the Schifferstadt
House (Thurs-Sat 10am-4pm, Sun noon-4pm; donation), just
off US-15, a stonewalled farmhouse built in 1753 and largely unaltered
since.
According to a romantic poem popular with around
1900 schoolchildren, ninety-five-year-old Barbara Fritchie defiantly
waved the US flag while Confederate soldiers marched past her
home, the tiny Barbara Fritchie House (April-Sept
Mon & Thurs-Sat 10am-4pm, Sun 1-4pm; $2) along Carroll Creek
on the west side of town. When Winston Churchill passed through,
he stopped at the house and recited the poem from memory.
Camp David , the mountain retreat
used by US presidents since FDR, where Jimmy Carter brought Menachem
Begin and Anwar Sadat together in 1978 to sign the historic Camp
David accords between Israel and Egypt, is hidden away in the
mountains north of Frederick. Nearby Cunningham Falls
State Park and the Catoctin Mountain Park
both hold seemingly endless hardwood forests - great for fall
color - in the midst of which are numerous preserved remnants
of early homesteaders. Pick up details on hiking and camping at
the main visitor center (daily 10am-4pm; tel
301/663-9388), off Hwy-77 two miles west of US-15.
Besides being a nice detour off the highway, Frederick
is a good base for exploring places such as Antietam
and Harpers Ferry in West Virginia. There are
motels along both I-70 and US-15, and in town
the Tyler Spite House , 112 W Church St (tel 301/831-4455; $130-160),
is a pleasant B&B in an elegant 1814 mansion.
For a bite to eat , try the soups and steaks at the Brown Pelican
, 5 E Church St, or the burgers and steamed crabs at Cactus Flats
, three miles north off US-15.
