BURKITTSVILLE
Town Hall
500 E. Main St
P.O. Box 485
Burkittsville, MD 21718
(301) 834-6780
"A step back into the past"
Mayor: Heidi Campbell-Shoaf
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Town Council: Debby Burgoyne, Susan Brown, Cathy Costantino
Quick Facts:- Elected officials, a mayor and a three-member Town Council, serve three-year terms and are elected at-large.
- Recent claim to fame is the 2001 movie "The Blair Witch Project" (which is a fictional movie, by the way!) is based in Burkittsville.
- Burkittsville was founded in 1824. The population of town is roughly 200.
- Battle of Crampton's Gap took place Sept. 14, 1862 and served as a prelude to the Battle of Antietam, which took place three days later.
- Town remains a prime tourist destination for Civil War buffs.
- In mid-July every year, the town hosts the Annual Burkittsville Ruritan Club Carnival at the Ruritan Community Center grounds.
Meeting Schedule: Located in the Ruritan Community Center, meetings take place the second Monday of January, March, May, July, Sept., and Nov. at 7:30 p.m.
On the Web: www.burkittsville-md.gov
Frederick News-Post Contact: Karen Gardner
Burkittsville in The News-Post ...
Lights in the Valley (12/24/06)
Acre by acre, preserving our land (9/28/06)
General store sells a piece of history (7/12/05)
In Burkittsville, women take over and nobody notices (3/21/05)
Holy history (3/20/05)
Church home to museum filled with area history (3/20/05)
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