Carroll County was formed in 1837. Its boundaries were created from Baltimore and Frederick Counties. The county area is rich in history and stories of families starting a new beginning. When the first settlers left the Atlantic Coast and the shorelines of the Chesapeake Bay heading west, past the first fault drop in the streams and rivers flowing from the mountains to the coast they found rich farmland and quick running streams to power mills before the Appalachian Mountains.  Many families had their first start here and some families would begin to migrate further west to the Ohio River Valley and southward towards Tennessee and Kentucky.  

 

The volunteers of the Carroll County Genealogical Society share the stories of the many families who lived here, their history, their struggles and the records of their lives left behind for today's generations to recover and learn.  Genealogy is just one facet in telling the history of our land and of our Nation.  So as history intertwines with your family, rediscover your past and gain an understanding of how you reached your place in history today.