George Markell Farmstead
The once large Markell dairy farm , with its lane to the Ballenger Creek ford of the Monocacy River , served as the primary approach route to the battlefield by Confederate troops during the July 9 , 1864 Battle of Monocacy during the American Civil War . 
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