News & Stories - Union Mills Homestead

21-01-21

Jane S. Sewell, the long-time Executive Director of the Union Mills Homestead Foundation, Inc., retires effective February 1, 2021. Jane ...

20-12-20

A Christmas Eve poem written in 1886 has been brought to life by a video that highlights some of the ...

23-09-20

The Maryland Microbrewery Festival, held each September at the Union Mills Homestead, will not be held in 2020 due to ...

30-07-20

The Union Mills Homestead Foundation and the Silver Run-Union Mills Lions Club were preparing this year for the 50th Annual ...

29-07-20

(Photo above: Stone Arch Bridge over Big Pipe Creek in Union Mills, circa 1890. The bridge was built 1807-08 and ...

Union Mills Homestead Re-opened

12-07-20

The Union Mills Homestead is now reopened after our COVID-19 closure. The site is open to tour Fridays, Saturdays and ...

27-04-20

With the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 forcing cancellation of the Union Mills Homestead’s Flower and Plant Market for the first ...

COVID-19 Update

05-04-20

April, 2020 Dear Members and Friends, So much has changed in the past month because of COVID-19, and I know ...

05-03-20

With another election season upon us, attention once again is focused on the tone of political discourse in the United ...

09-11-19

Just who is Belsnickel? To some the answer may come readily, but for others it is an unknown word. The ...

10-10-19

In 1869, Benjamin Franklin Shriver (known to friends and family as “Frank”) started a cannery to preserve excess crops from ...

04-10-19

The Maryland Microbrewery Festival was held Saturday, September 28, 2019 at the Union Mills Homestead. The event, held on a ...