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Please enjoy this brief history of the Adamstown, MD, area.

A Brief History of Adamstown, Maryland

Cooling Springs Farm, located three miles north of the Potomac River in Frederick County, Maryland, is one of only a small handful of Underground Railroad safe-houses still known today in border or southern state of the United States. Cooling Springs Farm was operated by the Michael family as a safe-house and route on the Underground Railroad from at least 1855, and possibly as early as 1842, until the end of the Civil War in 1865. An unknown number of freedom seekers escaping slavery were sheltered by the Michael family at the farm Spring House, the actual safe-house of the Underground Railroad.

Cooling Springs Farm was founded by Andrew Michael, a Swiss immigrant, and his wife Barbara in 1768. Andrew was the son of the Swiss explorer Franz Ludwig Michel who was one of the first European explorers of Frederick County around 1701-1705, and who founded New Bern, North Carolina in 1709. Andrew was one of four brothers who immigrated to Frederick County, Maryland, in the mid-1700s. Today, Cooling Springs Farm is owned by Peter and Vicki Michael who are the seventh generation of the Michael family at Cooling Springs, a record of longevity of ownership by one family not matched by many other properties in the United States. After purchasing Cooling Springs in 2001, Peter and Vicki Michael began restoration of Cooling Springs Farm and its spring house used by the Michael family as the actual safe-house on the Underground Railroad, and have made it and Cooling Springs Farm available to the general public.