History Shark Productions

Based on Chris' video documentary entitled “Sugarloaf: The Quest for Riches and Redemption in the Monocacy Valley” (produced in 2000), this course is a historical journey into the wild environs of today’s Frederick County as it existed between three and four centuries ago.  This encompasses the European Contact and early colonial period (1600’s and early 1700’s), and nicely bridges the pre-history of the region to the point of the1634 founding of Maryland and European habitation over the next century. The course will explore the early American Indian tribes and European explorers and traders that once traversed the area that would eventually see the establishment of Frederick Town in 1745 and Frederick County in 1748. This course will be taught through a variety of film-video excerpts, Power Point-lecture and some good old-fashioned “show and tell.”