Sharpsburg News

As many as thirty percent of the photographs taken during the Civil War were stereographs A or what today we would call 3-D. Photographers traveled in wagonsA carrying into the fieldA their bulky cameras, tripods and darkroom.

A house went up in flames leaving one firefighter seriously injured. It happened on the 4200 block of Harpers Ferry Road in Sharpsburg.

The installation of historical markers along the communities that line the C&O Canal neared its completion last week with the placement of the sixth one at Snyder's Landing in Maryland.

On Tuesday, rangers are erecting signs inviting canal towpath users to make side trips to Sharpsburg, Md., and Shepherdstown, W.Va. The Canal Towns Partnership is aimed at boosting tourism spending.