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With new owner, beloved White's Ferry has a chance of reopening Jessica Contrera and Justin Wm. Moyer, The Washington Post Feb. 13, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail The White's Ferry makes its way to the Montgomery County, Md.,side of the Potomac River on June 30, 2020.Washington Post photo by Michael S. Williamson. A beloved and historic Potomac River ferry shuttered by legal disputes last year may have a new chance to shuttle again. White's Ferry, which has carried passengers between Maryland and Virginia since the late 1700s, has been purchased by businessman Chuck Kuhn, chief executive of JK Mo...

White’s Ferry owner offers $400K to end dispute, restore service Plus: Bethesda man is voice of NFL players during social unrest; NIST workers exposed to elevated radiation levels, officials say Bethesda Beat Staff | February 4, 2021 White’s Ferry owner offers $400K to end dispute, restore service The owner of a centuries-old ferry service that provided a route between Maryland and Virginia said he has offered $400,000 to resolve the land dispute that led to its closure in December. Herbert Brown, whose family has owned White’s Ferry for decades, said he has offered Rockland Farm a o...

THIS week’s story is about a man who came from Germany and stayed in the area for the rest of his life. In 1870 The Government brought in the Naturalisation Act which introduced administrative procedures for naturalising non-British subjects. A successful applicant would then be unable to be deported having pledged allegiance to the Crown. Crucially, you had to have already been in the country for at least five years and it certainly helped if you were in a respectable job. So it was that Oswald Friedrich Victor Wachter from Saxony obtained a certificate Of Naturalisation To An Alie...

Elizabeth Brown's grave in Barnoldswick INDUSTRIAL health and safety 100 years ago was not what it is today. The mills of Barnoldswick in those days were probably no better or worse than anywhere else. Bancroft Mill was opened in March 1920 and only ten months later it recorded its first, and, so far as we know, only fatal accident. Monday, January 18, 2021 marks the centenary of the death of Elizabeth Brown, a weaver, of Cobden Street. She was 28, married to Herbert Brown, who we believe was also a weaver at Bancroft. Their son Frank was just five years old. Elizabeth had left the we...

A historic ferry that shuttled commuters across the Potomac River between Virginia and Maryland closed Monday after a legal dispute.