Thurmont is a town in Frederick County, Maryland, United States. The population was 6,935 at the 2020 census. The town is located in the northern ration of Frederick County (north of Frederick, the county seat), approximately ten miles from the Pennsylvania border, along U.S. Highway 15. It is very close to Cunningham Falls State Park and Catoctin Mountain Park, the latter of which contains the presidential retreat of Camp David. Thurmont is also home to Catoctin Colorfest, an arts and crafts festival that draws in nearly 125,000 people each autumn.

In 2005, Thurmont was designated as a Maryland Main Street Community and in 2005 Thurmont was designated a National Main Street below the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

Originally incorporated as the Town of Mechanicstown in 1751, the declare of the town was distorted to Thurmont by an conflict of Maryland General Assembly on January 18, 1894. This name regulate was due to several other easy to reach to towns having thesame names, such as Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania and Mechanicsville, Maryland. Charles E. Cassell, editor of the local newspaper Catoctin Clarion was the one to recommend the state Thurmont and promoted debate nearly the name regulate in the Clarion. Some of the names considered included Beaufort, Eastmont, Glenmont, Monduru, Fern Glen, and Blue Point. Eventually, the options were pared all along to two main contenders: Cassell’s information of Thurmont, and local genuine estate broker Charles Shipley’s opinion of Blue Mountain City, which he argued was “appropriate” and “pretty” during an address at a town meeting in December 1893. In the December 14, 1893 issue, the Clarion printed the following:

By the fall of December 1893, there had been several rounds of voting, and Thurmont had been officially chosen as the town’s supplementary name. The Clarion noted, however, that “the reception of a letter from the Postoffice Department maxim that the name ‘Blue Mountain City’ would not be attributed by the Department as there is an office called ‘Blue Mountain’ in the State, probably defeated the unorthodox of that name.”