Goshen Mills

Historical marker location:

21121 Goshen Road, Gaithersburg, Maryland

( Marker is on Brink Road, 0.1 miles east of Goshen Road, on the right when traveling west.)

Maryland was a border state during the Civil War: During the Civil War, Maryland was a border state that remained in the Union but had many sympathizers with the Confederacy. The state was strategically important because it was located between Washington D.C. and the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia.