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3311 Littlestown Pike  star_red.gif (99 bytes)  Westminster, MD 21158  star_red.gif (99 bytes)  410-848-2288

The Union Mills Homestead, the Shriver family homestead for six generations, is located in Union Mills, Maryland, about 17 miles south of Gettysburg, PA. The Homestead is now a museum of American culture, operated by the Union Mills Homestead Foundation, a non-profit foundation with all proceeds dedicated to the preservation and restoration of the Union Mills Homestead Complex.

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star_red.gif (99 bytes)  Media Event / Press Conference, Sunday October 9, 12 noon star_red.gif (99 bytes)
Meet Andrew Keiser Shriver and his wife, Catherine Shriver
along with
important senior officers of the Union and Confederate Armies
to learn about plans for commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the
Battle of Gettysburg, and Union Mills' role
. 
click for details (pdf)
 

2011 Events at Union Mills  Information about hours and special events at the Homestead can be found at the Carroll County Tourism web site. (Search for "Union Mills" or go to the Museums page)     Click here for directions to Union Mills.

star_red.gif (99 bytes) If you are interested in purchasing locally grown, freshly ground grain, please contact our miller, Ivan Lufriu at ivamar@netzero.net or telephone 410-848-2288.
star_red.gif (99 bytes) The Union Mills Homestead is available to host your event.  Contact Jane Sewell, Executive Director, at 410-848-2288.

Typical Hours
 (except special
events; see below)
May: Weekends noon - 4pm
June-August: Daily but Monday, Weekdays, 10am-4pm; weekends, noon-4pm
September: Weekends, noon - 4pm  

April 29 - May 1, 2011

42nd Annual Flower & Plant Market - click for details

July 6 - August 24 Summer Education Series for children ages 6-10 with "Pops" - click for more info

July 10, 2011

Ice Cream Sundae Social  (Sunday - 1-4) - click for details

July 16-17, 2011 Civil War Encampment (Sat and Sun - 9am - dusk) - click for details - visit Facebook for photos

August 6, 2011

41st Annual Old-Fashioned Corn Roast Festival (Saturday 11-5) - click for details

August 28, 2011 Mid-Atlantic Milling Day - open house at the Mill  (Sunday - Noon - 4) - click for details

CANCELLED - September 24, 2011

6th Maryland Microbrewery Festival (Saturday - 11-7) - click for Official Festival Website
star_red.gif (99 bytes)New - October 9, 2011 Media Event and Annual Meeting - click for details (pdf)
October 23, 2011 5th Annual Mason-Dixon Jeep Gathering, (10-3) - click for details, also here

 
ARCHIVES:    2010 events   2009 events    2008 events    2007 events    2006 events    2005 events    2004 events    2003 events

Shriver History

Correspondence & Diaries

Union Mills Photos

Links & Genealogy

Society for the Preservation Of Old Mills (SPOOM)
SPOOM Home Page          Mid-Atlantic Chapter         2005 Conference at Union Mills
                      

Help preserve Union Mills -- join the Homestead Foundation

Shriver History and Genealogy (see also Links below)

In Memoriam, R. Sargent Shriver, Jr. - 1915-2011
     (note that his parents were second cousins, both descended from Andrew Shriver)

            R. Sargent Shriver, Jr., b. 1915

                        son of R. Sargent Shriver, b. 1878 and Hilda Shriver, b. 1882 (2nd cousins)

                                    Hilda was daughter of Thomas H. Shriver, b. 1846

                                                son of William Shriver, b. 1796

                                                          son of Andrew Shriver, b. 1762

 

                                    R. Sargent Shriver was son of Henry Shriver, b. 1841

                                                son of Joseph Shriver, b. 1806
                                                          
son of Andrew Shriver, b. 1762


Union Mills Correspondence and Diaries

  • Images and transcripts of Shriver letters from Union Mills.   (This will be a long project; begun October, 2000)

  • Picture postcards to and from residents of Union Mills, 1900-1910; featuring poetry by H. Wirt Shriver to his grandsons and to his son-in-law. (added February 2000)

  • History of Rural Free Delivery at Union Mills -- a Photo Essay.  (added January 2000)
      
    Proud to be linked at the Museum of Online Museums, April 2002

  • Diary of Mary Winifred Shriver at age 13 and 14, describing the everyday life of a child at Union Mills in 1889.

  • Shriver letters of the Civil War, in the collection of the University of Notre Dame Rare Books and Special Collections.
    The Shriver correspondence is a small group of mostly war-related notes and letters, written from 1860 to 1865 by the brothers Andrew Keiser Shriver (four items) and Thomas Herbert Shriver (three items). The authors were two of the thirteen children of William and Mary Owings Shriver of Union Mills, Carroll County, Maryland.


Union Mills and Shriver Photos

Union Mills cast iron firebacks featured as "Picture of the Month" at www.hearthcook.com


Other Links (worked last time I checked; please report broken links)


Other Genealogy Links

© 1998 - 2011  J. Douglass Klein.  Last updated 10/04/11 04:43 PM.                     **Please report broken links.**
Line drawing of the Homestead by Richard Weidman.


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