Bear Branch Nature Center

The Whittaker Chambers Farm, also known as the Pipe Creek Farm, is a historic cluster of farm properties near Westminster in rural Carroll County, Maryland. The farm's historic significance comes from its ownership by Whittaker Chambers (1901-1961), a pivotal figure in American Cold War politics. In December 1948, Chambers hid the "Pumpkin Papers" (microfilm) while awaiting a subpoena from the House Un-American Activities Committee to relinquish any intelligence stolen from the US Government by members of the Soviet spy rings within the federal government (e.g., Alger Hiss). Chambers also wrote his best-selling 1952 memoir Witness there. The property was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1988, in a somewhat controversial decision. The property remains in the Chambers family and is not accessible to the public.

Slagle-Byers House is a historic home located at Westminster, Carroll County, Maryland. It is a two-story gable-roofed Flemish bond brick structure with a two-story rear wing. It was constructed about 1819.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

The John Orendorff Farm is a historic home and farm complex located at Westminster, Carroll County, Maryland, United States. The complex consists of a brick house, a brick privy, a brick smokehouse, a frame barn, a frame hog pen, a frame wagon shed, two poultry houses, and a feed house. The house is a five-by-two-bay brick structure, built in 1861 in the Italianate style. It has a 2+1⁄2-story, six-by-two-bay brick ell on the north side.The John Orendorff Farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

The Christian Royer House is a historic home located at Westminster, Carroll County, Maryland, United States. It was built about 1828, and served dual functions as a farmhouse and a Church of the Brethren meeting house. The house is two stories of brick, with a five-bay by two-bay main section and a three-bay long central rear wing. The rear wing features a double-tiered inset porch on both sides in the two bays adjoining the main section of the house. Also on the property are a late 19th-century corn crib and a large 20th-century barn. The features distinguishing this as a meeting house are the double entrance on the main facade, the folding wood-panel partition walls that open to provide single large space and the extensive kitchen facilities.The Christian Royer House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

Deep Run is a tributary of Big Pipe Creek in Carroll County, Maryland in the United States.

Union Mills Homestead Historic District is a national historic district at Westminster, Carroll County, Maryland, United States.

Philip and Uriah Arter Farm is a historic home and farm complex located at Union Mills, Carroll County, Maryland. The complex includes a frame house built about 1844, a frame bank barn built about 1888, and a deteriorated early-20th-century frame outbuilding. The house is a well-preserved example of a middling farmer's dwelling house from mid-19th-century Maryland.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

Deep Run is an unincorporated community in Carroll County, Maryland, United States. Deep Run is located 7.6 miles (12.2 km) north of Westminster.

The Solomon Arter House is a historic two-story, three-bay log home in Union Mills, Carroll County, Maryland, United States. It was built in about 1810 by Solomon Arter, a member of the Arter family that was prominent in the Pennsylvania German culture of this region. The structure is representative of Pennsylvania German domestic architecture in Carroll County, and is significant for the preservation of its interior stenciling. Also on the property is an 1872 bank barn, hogpen, and 1883 frame Victorian tenant house.The Solomon Arter House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.The house lies outside area of the proposed Union Mills Reservoir.

Union Mills is an unincorporated community in Carroll County, Maryland, United States. The community is home to the Union Mills Homestead Historic District, added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. The Solomon Arter House was listed in 1987 and the Philip and Uriah Arter Farm in 2006.Since the 1970s, Carroll County commissioners have tried to build a dam or reservoir centered nearby, defeated in the 1970s and revived in the 2000s as a proposed Union Mills Reservoir. Union Mills plays a central role in Gettysburg: A Novel of the Civil War, a 2003 alternate history novel written by Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen.

New Mexico is an unincorporated community, in Carroll County, Maryland, United States. It lies at an elevation of 879 feet (268 m). The hamlet is not named after the state of New Mexico, but rather after the community of Mexico directly across MD-27 from New Mexico.

Mexico is an unincorporated community in Carroll County, Maryland, United States. It lies at an elevation of 968 feet (295 m).