Union Mills, Maryland
Union Mills is an unincorporated community in Carroll County, Maryland, United States.[1] The community is home to the Union Mills Homestead Historic District, added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.[2] The Solomon Arter House was listed in 1987 and the Philip and Uriah Arter Farm in 2006.[2]
Since the 1970s, Carroll County commissioners have tried to build a dam or reservoir centered nearby, defeated in the 1970s and revived in the 2000s as a proposed Union Mills Reservoir.
Union Mills plays a central role in Gettysburg: A Novel of the Civil War, a 2003 alternate history novel written by Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen.
References
[edit]- ^ "Geographic Names Information System". Union Mills (Populated Place). U.S. Geological Survey. January 29, 2009.
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
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