The Catoctin Furnace Historical Society, Inc. (CFHS), together with the African American Resources Cultural and Heritage (AARCH) Society of Frederick County and Frederick County’s Division of Planning and Permitting (FCG) combined a Maryland Historical Trust (MHT) Non-Capital grant and a CLG grant to complete a comprehensive historic context statement and architecture inventory with an emphasis on previously undocumented African American resources in northern Frederick County. Recovering Identity represents the first documentation of African American resources in northern Frederick County and rediscovered dwellings and landscapes whose African American connection had been forgotten.Called Recovering Identity: Northern Frederick County Cultural Resource Survey, the project acknowledged that African Americans have long been left out of historical narratives and their contributions to the development and cultural heritage of not just the County, but the State and Nation. The project was intended to be the beginning of a county-wide effort to identify and survey architectural resources and create an overall historic context statement associated with African Americans throughout Frederick County. Final project products included completion of a comprehensive historic context report, 21 MIHP forms, one NR boundary expansion, documentation of a “Memory Landscape” of 83 documented African American resources, and numerous public outreach programs. The extensive research files compiled during this 3 year effort are included here to assist researchers in their efforts to recover information about their families and locales in the north county.