Barbara Fritchie House

History: As told in poet John Greenleaf Whittier's famous ballad, 95-year-old Barbara Fritchie, steadfastly loyal to the Union and "bravest of all in Frederick town," waved the Stars and Stripes from her attic window and shamed Confederate General Stonewall Jackson, who was marching his troops up the street.

More to Explore: Amid "the clustered spires of Frederick stand, green-walled by the hills of Maryland," the Fritchie house joins a lineup of historic landmarks that includes the law office of "Star-Spangled Banner" writer Francis Scott Key, the B&O Railroad Station where Abraham Lincoln spoke, and the 18th-century Roger Brooke Taney House. Visit the National Museum of Civil War Medicine and the historic city's shops and restaurants.

Photo Credits: “Barbara Fritchie” & “Ladies of New Orleans cartoon” Courtesy of: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division