Union Mills, Maryland

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Union Mills is an unincorporated community in Carroll County, Maryland, United States. [1] The community is home to the Union Mills Homestead Historic District, added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. [2] The Solomon Arter House was listed in 1987 and the Philip and Uriah Arter Farm in 2006. [2]

Since the 1970s, Carroll County commissioners have tried to build a dam or reservoir centered nearby, defeated in the 1970s and revived in the 2000s as a proposed Union Mills Reservoir.

Union Mills plays a central role in Gettysburg: A Novel of the Civil War , a 2003 alternate history novel written by Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen.

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A proposed Union Mills Reservoir represents a half century of efforts by the Commissioners of the Carroll County, Maryland, to build variations on a "dam" or "reservoir" near Union Mills, Maryland, on the Big Pipe Creek, defeated by a petition led by the Carroll County Taxpayers' Committee in the 1970s. The plan may be alive among some county officials but may also be postponed "indefinitely." Land threatened by the reservoir includes the Whittaker Chambers Farm, also known as the Pipe Creek Farm, a National Historic Landmark as well as protected under the Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation (MALPF).

References

  1. "Geographic Names Information System". Union Mills (Populated Place). U.S. Geological Survey. January 29, 2009.
  2. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. April 15, 2008.

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