Beallsville, Maryland

Darby store closed in 1974, and remained fully intact until a tractor-trailer destroyed the front porch in the late 1980s.

In 2004, the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission bought the Store and Darby house for $670,000, a year after the Montgomery Preservation nonprofit agency declared the building “one of the county’s most endangered historic sites.” Julie Mueller, cultural resources planner for Montgomery County claimed that the structure would be moved back from the corner next year.

A team of archaeologists spent three weeks at the site and their findings included: oyster shells, glass shards, coal, nails, ceramic pipe stems, a 1918 liberty dime, and a Yoo-hoo bottle, all of which provide clues to the history of the area, and the buildings occupying it since the 19th century.

Located in the upper West area of Montgomery County, near to Sugarloaf Mountain, is this secluded and historic place.

In January 1872, the vestry of St. Peter's transferred the churchyard over to the newly formed Monocacy Cemetery Society of Montgomery County, which included Frederick Sprigg Poole, Dr. N. Brewer, William Wallace Poole, Howard Griffith, Nathan White Allnutt, John A. Jones, and Isaac Young.

Beallsville was a crossroads on the road from Rockville to the Monocacy River and Nolands ferry, making it a strategic spot for the Union.

As part of the Maryland Campaign, in September 1862, Illinois and Indiana cavalry met units from Virginia in Beallsville after becoming engaged the day before in Poolesville.