Westminster is a city in northern Maryland, United States. It is the seat of Carroll County. The city's population was 18,590 at the 2010 census. Westminster is an outlying community within the Baltimore-Towson, MD MSA, which is part of a greater Washington-Baltimore-Northern Virginia, DC-MD-VA-WV CSA. Westminster is known for art today and has many galleries and art related businesses. A large number of artists live in Westminster and the surrounding Carroll County. On June 29, 1863, the cavalry skirmish known as Corbit's Charge was fought in the streets of Westminster, when two companies of... Delaware cavalry attacked a much larger Confederate force under General J.E.B. Stuart. In April 1865, Joseph Shaw, newspaper editor, had his presses wrecked and his business destroyed, and was subsequently beaten and stabbed to death by four men in Westminster, allegedly because of an anti-Lincoln editorial that was published the week before the actual assassination. In a later trial at the Westminster Court House the four men were acquitted; the reason cited was "self-defense." Just north of Westminster is the farm at which Whittaker Chambers hid the so-called "pumpkin papers.
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| County: | Carroll County |
| State: | Maryland |
| Country: | United States of America |
| Population: | 17,996 |
| Area: | 5.7 sq. mi. |
| Also known as: | Westminster, Maryland, Carroll County / Westminster city |