Carroll Yesteryears: Carroll’s historic sites represent ‘an embarrassment of riches’

Preservation of county history was important to Helen Shriver Riley and Helen Arnold Gorman, two of Carroll’s native daughters who recently died. Each of them devoted years of their long lives to the Historical Society of Carroll County, the Taneytown Heritage and Museum Association, the Union Mills Homestead, and other organizations devoted to saving Carroll’s past.

Architectural historian Kenneth M. Short, who worked for the Carroll County government in the 1990s as its historic planner...