After fleeing Washington from an invading British army, President James Madison spends a night in Brookeville, MD. With his entourage in tow and a strongbox containing the entire U.S. Treasury, the President makes the small Quaker community the U.S. Capital for a day.
Brookeville is also the home of Thomas Moore (1760-1822), who with another local citizen, Caleb Bentley (1762-1851), is the founder of the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. Moore also is credited with inventing the first refrigerator to transport and sell fresh butter.
