Indian Tribes, Explorers, and Fur Traders in the Monocacy Valley

Based on a video documentary entitled “Sugarloaf: The Quest for Riches and Redemption in the Monocacy Valley," this course features a historical journey into the once, "howling wilderness" of today’s Frederick County as it existed between three and four centuries ago. This period encompasses the European Contact and Colonial periods (1600s and early 1700s) and nicely bridges the pre-history of the region to the point of Maryland's 1634 founding and European habitation over the next century. The course will explore the American Indian tribes who lived here in the Monocacy and Middletown Valleys, along with European explorers and fur traders who once travelled the area that would later become Frederick County in 1748.