Frederick, MD: 1854 Government Office/B&O Depot

(Satellite)

Street View, Aug 2021

Robert L Cole posted
Another Post Card I have in my collection, An artist rendition of the B&O Passenger Station Frederick Maryland. Post card is circa early 1900's.

Michael David Wasiljov: Still there and looks pretty much the same. It's used for social services now I believe.

Dennis DeBruler: Michael David Wasiljov Found it : https://maps.app.goo.gl/6aX9w1KSKcKKfYqPA

This 1854 building replaced the original 1831 depot. [TrainOrders]

By "replace," do they mean the land was reused, or do they mean it was functionally replaced by a depot in a new location? If the land was reused, then this must have been a freight house because the date is 1906, over a half century after the "new" depot was built.

LC-USZ62-52635, c1906
B&O railroad depot, the oldest one in the U.S., Frederick, Md.

The B&O branch to Frederick terminated at this depot.

1908/21 Jamsville Quad @ 62,500

Note the historical marker in the lower-right corner of this view.

Street View, Aug 2023

That marker explains:

At this intersection, President Abraham Lincoln spoke from a railroad car platform to Frederick residents assembled in the streets on October 4, 1862. He had just returned from viewing the battlefields of South Mountain and Antietam and had called on Gen. George L. Hartsuff who was recuperating here from a wound suffered at Antietam. Lincoln was about to board a train for Washington. “I return thanks to our soldiers for the good services they have rendered, the energy they have shown, the hardships they have endured, and the blood they have shed for this Union of ours,” he said. “And also return thanks, not only to the soldiers, but to the good citizens of Frederick, and to the good men, women, and children in this land of ours, for their devotion to this glorious cause; and I say this with no malice in my heart toward those who have done otherwise. May our children and children’s children, for a thousand generations, continue to enjoy these benefits conferred upon us by a united country, and have cause yet to rejoice under these glorious institutions, bequeathed to us by Washington and his compeers.”

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Robert L Cole posted

Andrew Roberts: That is actually #4441 taking water at Frederick Junction. Headed westbound.