By Kevin E. Dayhoff, March 15, 2013 http://www.baltimoresun.com/explore/carroll/neighborhoods/westminster/ph-ce-eagle-archive-0317-20130313,0,5153633.story
In a 2009 edition of the Historical Society of Carroll
County publication, Carroll Courier, there is a picture dated March 1, 1950, of
5-year old Sally Adams with her cocker spaniel, Ricky, in front of Hoffman's
Inn, 216 E. Main St., Westminster.
The photo accompanied a first-hand personal account of life
on East Main Street and at Hoffman's Inn, from 1945 to 1961. The property is
now known as Historical Society's gift shop, the Shop at Cockey's.
Early history of the property, which dates back to the
1820s, is complicated and reads like a Victorian soap opera. Nevertheless, it's
where a great deal of the planning and creation of Carroll County took place.
After the county was formed, Cockey's served for many years as part of the seat
of county government.
"In 1922 Frank and Mary Hoffman bought the building and
it became Hoffman's Inn and Boarding House. It was inherited by their daughter
and operated by Thelma Hoffman until 1969."
William Granville "Mike" Eaton lived on the third
floor of Hoffman's Inn for many years. Eaton came to Westminster in 1926 to
attend then-Western Maryland College, now McDaniel, where he graduated in 1930.
It was in that year that he began his teaching career at Elmer A. Wolfe High
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