Grant Aids Restoration Of Hessian Barracks In Md.

FREDERICK, Md. (AP) -- A private grant of more than a quarter-million dollars is helping the Maryland School for the Deaf restore the historic Hessian Barracks on its Frederick campus.

The school announced the gift Thursday from the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

The nearly 240-year-old stone structure housed Hessian soldiers captured during the Revolutionary War and U.S. troops during the War of 1812.

It served as a hospital for Union and Confederate troops after the Civil War Battle of Antietam.

In 1867, the two-story building became the first schoolhouse for what was then called the Maryland Institution for the Deaf and Dumb.

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