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         - click for more info on Guided Tours
May 3-5, 2019	50th Annual Flower & Plant Market        Click for more info and plant order form
July 20-21, 2019	Civil War Encampment and Living History (Sat. & Sun. - 9am-dusk)     -more info-     -registration form-
August 3, 2019	49th Annual Old-Fashioned Corn Roast Festival (Saturday 11-5)
September 28, 2019	14th Annual Maryland Microbrewery Festival (Saturday - 11-6)
October 20, 2019	13th Annual Mason-Dixon Jeep Gathering, (Sunday 10-3)
November 16, 2019	Union Mills Christkindlmarkt (Saturday 11-4)

The Union Mills Homestead is available to host your wedding or other special event. 
               Contact Jane Sewell, Executive Director, at 410-848-2288 or [email protected]

The Homestead welcomes school and tour visits.

Shriver History and Genealogy (see also Links below)

• The Union Mills Homestead Foundation is pleased to announce the publication of     
  Pastime: Life & Love on the Homefront During the Civil War, 1861-1865
  Now on sale in the Homestead Gift Shop.  Click for ordering information.

• Excerpts from the Union Mills Homestead Foundation Newsletter.  The Newsletter has been published continuously since 1975, and reports on current events at the Homestead, and frequent articles on the history of the Homestead and Mill.  (Members receive the current newsletter.)

• Helen Drury Macsherry, editor,, Pastime: Life & Love on the Homefront During the Civil War, 1861-1865, published in 2013

• David Lovelace, The Shrivers: Under Two Flags, published by the Foundation in June, 2003.  Now reprinted.
  Contact the Homestead for more information.

• Mark K. Shriver, A Good Man: Rediscovering My Father. Biography of Sargent Shriver, Jr., published in 2012.  Book signing at Union Mills

• Samuel S. Shriver, The Green Books of Shriver History, 1888.   Project begun March 2002; completed, March 2003.  (Includes 1826 Narrative of Judge Shriver as included in the 1888 issue of the Green Book and Alsenborn church records, 1721.)  Click here for painting of the Alsenborn church.

• "The Shriver Family of Little Conewago" by Kenneth K. Kroh, June, 1950.  A brief (5-page) history of the early Shrivers in America (1700s); drawn from other Shriver sources.  Link to Kroh's cover letter, and from there to the paper itself.  Added October, 2001.

• Excerpts from The History of the Shriver Family.  Added October, 2001.

• The building of the Shriver Homestead in 1797 (excerpt from the "Red   Book").
  History of the Union Mills Homestead Foundation (addendum to the "Red Book" for the Bicentennial)   (added April, 2002).
  Purchase of the land for Union Mills, and history of the Bankert family. Added Feb. 2006

• The Shriver Coat of Arms.  Other sites have other Shriver Coats of Arms; this one is from the cover of the Green Book; history of the Shriver family.

• Description of the Shriver Family Papers in the collection of the Maryland Historical Society.  According to the MHS, "overall, the Shriver Family Papers are an essential collection for the political, economic and social history of Maryland in the Middle Period. Moreover, the richness and size of the collections provide an excellent opportunity for the study of family history."

• In memory of Esther L. Shriver - Aug. 11, 1928 - Jan. 12, 2006;  Obituary

• In memory of James McSherry Shriver, Jr. - 2/19/1928-8/27/2010; Obituaries

• In memory of Charles P. (Chuck) Ives, III - October 22, 2012 Obituary in the Baltimore Sun

• In memory of 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 (2^nd 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

Other Links (please report broken links)

• Union Mills Homestead featured on the Heart of the Civil War web site.

• More information about Carroll County History can be found at: Historical Society of Carroll County.

• Civil War Blacksmith.  Joseph C. Staup III (aka "Reb").  Living History re-enactor demonstrates his craft at Union Mills.

• In 1863, the Battle of Gettysburg nearly happened at Union Mills, and actions in Carroll County played a key role in the run-up to that battle.  See the discussion by Ronald A. Church of the Pipe Creek Line.  See also Approaches to Gettysburg. 

• General Meade's Pipe Creek Circular (Part 1) by John Allen Miller.

• Just South of Gettysburg: Carroll County, Maryland in the Civil War, Personal Accounts and Descriptions of a Maryland Border County, 1861-1865,  by Dr. Frederic Shriver Klein.

• Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen, Gettysburg: A Novel of the Civil War, St. Martin's Press, (June, 2003).  Fictional account of the battle, set along the Pipe Creek Line at Union Mills.  Click here for details of the August 9, 2003 book signing at the Homestead.
  "Gettysburg is a creative, clever, and fascinating ‘what if?’ novel that promises to excite and entertain America’s legions of Civil War buffs."—James Carville

• History of Littlestown, PA.  Several mentions of the Shriver family, including Herbert Shriver's role as a guide to the Confederate troops prior to the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863 , and the B.F. Shriver canning plant in Littlestown.

• Looks like Union Mills is part of the Geocaching sport - GIS hide-and-seek game -- Summer 2005. 

• Small Museum Association - an all volunteer organization serving small museums in the mid-Atlantic region and beyond.

• Open Hearth Cooking at Union Mills

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

Other Genealogy Links

• Shriver (Schriver) House Museum in Gettysburg, PA.

• A collection of Shriver/Schreiber/Schryver web sites, including The Schryver Page, and Lorenz Schreiber genealogy.

• Schultz genealogy page.  Elizabeth Schultz m. Andrew Shriver in 1786.  This site traces Elizabeth's line back to Gabriel and Anna Margaretta Schultz of the Pfaltz, Alsace, Germany in the late 1600s.

• History and Genealogy of the Stonesifer Family of Maryland and Pennsylvania.  Includes many references to the Bankert and the Shriver families.