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7 unusual facts about Boyds


2013 Atlantic Coast Conference men's soccer season

The 2013 ACC Men's Soccer Tournament will run from November 12–17, with quarterfinals at campus sites followed by the semifinals and final at the Maryland SoccerPlex in Boyds, Maryland.

Albert Coady Wedemeyer

Friends Advice, in Boyds, Maryland, was his permanent home throughout his military career and after his retirement in 1951, until his death in 1989.

Boyds Bears

They began making and selling stuffed bears, and the bears became known as "Boyds Bears" for the town of Boyds, Maryland, where they lived and operated their business.

Boyds, Maryland

He built a temporary village to house construction workers as the B&O built the Metropolitan Branch line after the Civil War.

It is a small, one room school house, containing a small number of desks, a blackboard, and an authentic potbelly stove, as well as a framed picture of abolitionist Frederick Douglass.

Children's Theatre in the Woods

In 1989, Theatre in the Woods inspired a similar production at Black Hill Regional Park in nearby Boyds, Maryland.

Robin Ficker

Robin Ficker (born April 5, 1943) is an American attorney, real estate broker, political activist, and sports heckler who lives in Boyds, Maryland.


Ballymacool Park

The Australian artist Arthur Merric Boyd and his family are descended from the Boyds of Ballymacool.

Boyd Raeburn

Among Finckel’s arrangements were “March of the Boyds,” “Milkman, Keep Those Bottles Quiet,” “Little Boyd Blue,” “Boyd Meets Stravinsky,” and an outstanding chart of Dizzy Gillespie’s first major composition, “A Night in Tunisia”.

Dunlop, East Ayrshire

On the lower slopes of Craignaught Hill was fought a singularly unusual battle between the Boyds of Kilmarnock and the Stewarts of Darnley.

Murrumbeena, Victoria

Through the Boyds, Murrumbeena played host to other well-known artists including John Perceval, Sidney Nolan, Hatton Beck, and Peter Herbst.


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