On April 13, 1762, Uriah Wirt and his son were on their way to Frederick Towne from Virginia when they were waylaid by highwaymen. The elder Mr. Wirt was shot and killed. Richard "Dew" Crosby was hanged at the Tory Jail on East Second Street for this crime on May 26th. On April 13, 1812, federal troops were housed at the Hessian Barracks off South Market Street in Frederick to await orders during the War of 1812. On April 13, 1832, inmates at the Frederick Almshouse on West Patrick Street near today's Bentz Street were transferred to a new facility two miles northwest of the city. The old Montevue Hospital on Rosemont Avenue (where the county Health Department is located today) was built in 1870 on this site. On April 13, 1838, Mrs. Eleanor Potts deeded a lot on the southeast corner of East Church Street and present day Maxwell Avenue to The Orphan House and Episcopal Free School Society of All Saints Episcopal Church for use as an orphanage. On April 13, 1865, Frederick officially celebrated the surrender of General Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Army with the ringing of church bells, bands, parades and flag waving. On April 13, 1889, the Rev. Henry Wissler, former pastor of Trinity Reformed Church in Mechanicstown (Thurmont), died. ' On April 13, 1900, Theodore Crist Delaplaine, who operated The Monocacy Mills at Buckeystown, and who was the father of William T. Delaplaine, founder of Frederick's first daily newspaper - The News - in 1883, died at his East Patrick Street home following a stroke. He was born in Georgetown, near Washington, on November 2, 1810. On April 13, 1948, The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad station on the southeast corner of South Market and East All Saints Streets in Frederick was closed permanently. If anyone can add information to these History Moments, or would like to suggest an item for another calendar day, please contact me privately. John W. Ashbury Wasps1965@comcast.net <mailto:Wasps1965@comcast.net>