While Carroll County is part of Maryland and the United States, it is also very different. I’m not just talking about the people, history or culture here. The actual land of Carroll is so different that it has had a mineral named after it. For years after it was first discovered, Carroll County was the only place in the world that Carrollite was known to exist. Then slowly other deposits were discovered on other continents and in other countries. Now there are even a few other places in the United   States where it has been found. Though the place where it was first discovered is buried and forgotten, the name remains not only to mark Carroll County’s place in Maryland, but in the world. Mining in Carroll County Carroll County attracted the attention of prospectors in 1846. They weren’t Read more…