Johnsville is an unincorporated community in Frederick County, Maryland, United States. [1] It is located approximately halfway between Libertytown and Union Bridge along Maryland Route 75 (Green Valley Rd). The Kitterman-Buckey Farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. [2]
The town of Johnsville was first settled by English and German immigrants in the 1740s, including the Birely and Iler families. [3] In the 1770s, a congregation of German Baptists or “Dunkers” organized Beaver Dam Church two miles northeast of the present town, the second oldest Church of the Brethren congregation in Frederick County. [4] In the early-19th century, the town of Johnsville developed to serve the needs of travelers on the main road leading from southern Pennsylvania to Frederick, the specific location of the town being almost halfway between Union Bridge and Libertytown. [5] In 1854, the General Assembly of Maryland created a new election district with Johnsville at its center. [6] A map of Frederick County, drawn by Isaac Bond in 1858, records the presence of a hotel, a wheelwright's shop, a blacksmith's shop, two stores, a post office, school, a physician, and two churches (Methodist Episcopal and Methodist Protestant) in Johnsville. [7]
Johnsville retains much of its rural community aesthetic and historical integrity today. Historic structures along the single street through the town document its important role as a place where travelers could obtain necessary services while moving between larger population and commercial centers. A few of the historic structures in Johnsville include the Methodist Protestant Church (today Johnsville United Methodist Church), built in 1842 and displaying intricate brickwork resulting from a later renovation; the Johnsville Schoolhouse, built in 1903; the former Methodist Episcopal Church, a frame Gothic Revival structure built in 1851; the Grove Store, a large compound structure with combined commercial and residential spaces built in 1875 in Italianate style; the Wolf House, a circa 1840 Greek Revival styled house with later Italianate porch; and the Dr. Sidewell House, a compound stone and brick structure reflecting two periods of construction (circa 1810 and 1840). [8]
Nearby, the Beaver Dam Church of the Brethren maintains two historic buildings: an 1832 meetinghouse and an 1882 brick meetinghouse. [9]
The community is in eastern Frederick County, along Maryland Route 75 (Green Valley Road), which leads east 9 miles (14 km) to New Windsor and south 19 miles (31 km) to Hyattstown.
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Maryland Route 75 is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. Known for most of its length as Green Valley Road, the state highway runs 28.40 miles (45.71 km) from MD 355 near Hyattstown north to MD 31 in New Windsor. MD 75 serves as the main north–south highway of eastern Frederick County, where it connects Hyattstown with New Market, Libertytown, Johnsville, and the Carroll County town of Union Bridge. The first sections of MD 75 were constructed around New Windsor and between Green Valley and New London in the early 1910s. The latter highway was extended south to Green Valley in the late 1910s. In the early 1920s, MD 75 was constructed between New Windsor and Union Bridge and from Libertytown to Johnsville. The remainder of the state highway was constructed in the late 1920s and early 1930s. MD 75 was relocated between Union Bridge and New Windsor in the early 1960s, around its interchange with Interstate 70 (I-70) and U.S. Route 40 in New Market in the early 1970s, and at its northern terminus in New Windsor in 2007.
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