Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For about two centuries, the earthly remains of dozens of enslaved ironworkers were buried on ground near Catoctin Furnace that ...

THURMONT, Md. (7News) — A Memorial Day hike took a dangerous turn for one Maryland hiker. Emergency personnel responded to a distress call at Catoctin State Park on May 25, where a hiker had fallen ...

It’s always a thrill to get the first glance of the Catoctin Mountain ridge, rising in a purple haze above the horizon as you top a hill driving toward Frederick on Interstate 70. It’s the first ...

It was a high-stakes holiday weekend for Maryland State Police Aviation crews, who pulled off two dramatic back-to-back air rescues. The first rescue happened around 5 p.m. on Sunday, May 25, at Wolf ...

Several miles east of Thurmont, Md., a man is studying a topographical map. The map is tacked to a wall in the visitor's center at Catoctin Mountain Park, a unit of the National Park Service. The man ...

For Elizabeth Comer, president of the Catoctin Furnace Historical Society, taking the historic cemetery that holds the remains of dozens of enslaved ironworkers from private to public hands is a ...