Burkittsville, Maryland

Frederick County

24-11700

Burkittsville is a village in Frederick County in the U.S. state of Maryland. In the 2000 census, the village had 171 inhabitants in an area of 1.1 km ². Burkittsville is located on the border of Washington County near the Gathland State Park. Burkittsville became known by the pseudo - documentary " Blair Witch Project " in 1999, despite playing here, but for the most part did not originate here.

History

Burkittsville in 1824 initially in two parts by the two landowners Major Joshua Harley (as western half: "Harley 's Post Office " ) and Henry Burkitt founded. Four years later ( after the departure of Joshua Harley ) named the remaining Henry Burkitt also the western part around in Burkittsville. Over the next three decades, then becomes a normal community with shops, shops with forge and tanning as well as a school and two churches of this place grew.

In the American Civil War, the town was in 1862 occupied by the Confederate Army and after a bloody slugfest on Sunday 14 September, with the Union army had more than 300 injured on both sides are supplied to the two churches and a school house were to provisional Hospital - these historic buildings were preserved. After the overwhelming success of The Blair Witch Project, the city was overrun by fans. In essence, the film was, however, Maryland turned in Seneca Creek State Park. Souvenir hunters stole many times the entrance signs of Burkittsville. In 2000, the sequel to The Blair Witch Project Blair Witch 2 was filmed in Burkittsville.