Foxville, Maryland
| Foxville, Maryland | |
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| Unincorporated community | |
Historic Mount Moriah Lutheran Church in Foxville, Maryland.
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 Foxville
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| Coordinates: 39°38′11″N 77°29′49″W / 39.63639°N 77.49694°WCoordinates: 39°38′11″N 77°29′49″W / 39.63639°N 77.49694°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Maryland |
| County | Frederick |
| Elevation | 1,453 ft (443 m) |
| Time zone | Eastern (EST) (UTC-5) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
| Area code(s) | 301 & 240 |
| GNIS feature ID | 584480 |
Foxville is an unincorporated community in Frederick County, Maryland, United States. Foxville is located on Maryland Route 77 4.7 miles (7.6 km) west of Thurmont. Settled in the late 18th century, the historic village is situated between South Mountain to the west and to the east. , Cunningham Falls State Park, and the Appalachian Trail are all within a few miles of Foxville.
The village of Foxville was settled in the late 18th century by second-generation German immigrants to the United States as they moved southward from their original settlements in Pennsylvania. Early settlers in Foxville included the Fox, Wolfe, Hauver, and Poorman (Buhrman) families. Foxville was situated on the main road leading between Hagerstown and Emmitsburg. The Wolfe family built a tavern along this route around 1800. As the area became more permanently settled in the early 19th century, the developing village took the name of Foxville from the area's largest landowners, the Fox family. In 1830, Mount Moriah Lutheran Church was organized and erected a stone building on the northern edge of the village. A few years later, the Mount Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church was established in 1836 and constructed a log building about one mile south of the village. In the latter half of the 19th century, the village further developed with the establishment of a public school, wagon shop, and general store, operated by Thomas Fox, a third-generation descendant of the original settlers. In 1877, Mount Moriah Lutheran Church was largely rebuilt and Mount Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church erected a new building in 1902. During the Great Depression, WPA workers constructed Camp Hi Catoctin on the mountain a few miles northwest of Foxville as a retreat for Federal Government employees and their families. In 1942, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt converted the camp into a presidential retreat called Shangri-La. President Dwight D. Eisenhower renamed the retreat Camp David during his administration. The Eisenhowers donated a significant library of books to the Foxville School where the children of some of the workers at Camp David attended. Closed in 1962, Foxville's school was the last two-room school in operation in Frederick County, Maryland.
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