FREDERICK, Md. (DC News Now) -- A western Maryland community is excited about a new museum that will take new visitors back in time.

Ground was broken Monday on the Carriage House Museum, a half-million-dollar venue to showcase life from a time when horse-drawn carriages were the standard mode of transportation.

The site of the museum is the Rose Hill Plantation, reflecting 200 years of the region's complex history.

"Enslaved individuals were living here in the 1830s, who were the coachmen and footmen," explained Frederick County Parks manager Kari Saavedra.

The history relived at the museum will help drive tourism, said Jeremy Kortright, director of Frederick County Parks and Recreation.

"From every county around us here in Frederick, Carroll, Montgomery, they'll all be able to come

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