| Maryland (Garrett County), Accident — Bear Creek Trout Hatchery and Rearing Station |
| | One and one-half miles from this point. Purchased by state 1928. — Map (db m406) |
| Maryland (Garrett County), Accident — Maryland History - Drane House |
| | Built 1797. Oldest Structure in Garrett County. — Map (db m2313) |
| Maryland (Garrett County), Crellin — Charles Friend’s Home |
| | George Washington stopped here Sept. 26, 1784 on his trip to determine a feasible passage between the Potomac and the Ohio for a canal or easy portage between these rivers as a passage to western territory. — Map (db m479) |
| Maryland (Garrett County), Deer Park — Cleveland Cottage |
| | President Grover Cleveland and his bride, the former Frances Folsom, arrived here the day following their White House wedding on June 2, 1886. They spent their honeymoon at this Deer Park Hotel cottage. — Map (db m470) |
| Maryland (Garrett County), Deer Park — Cleveland Cottage and Site of Deer Park Hotel |
| | (1 mile south.) The hotel was built by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, opened July 4, 1873, and operated until 1829. Dismantled 1942. President and Mrs. Grover Cleveland spent their honeymoon at the cottage in June, 1886. — Map (db m472) |
| Maryland (Garrett County), Deer Park — Deer Park Hotel |
| | Built by the B&O Railroad, opened July 4, 1873 and operated until 1929. Razed 1942. This was one of the most exclusive mountain resorts in the east. Many nationally prominent people, including four United States Presidents, were guests here. — Map (db m5413) |
| Maryland (Garrett County), Deer Park — James Cardinal Gibbons |
| | It was here that Archbishop James Gibbons of Baltimore was notified personally by the Papal Nuncio in 1886 that he had been made a Cardinal by Pope Leo XIII; only the second appointment in the history of the United States of America. — Map (db m469) |
| Maryland (Garrett County), Finzel — Savage River Camp |
| | General Braddock's 3rd camp on his march to Fort Duquesne June 16, 1755. The route, later known as the Old Braddock Road, passes to the southeast of the National Road. Captain Orme's diary says "we entirely demolished three wagons and shattered several" descending Savage Mountain. — Map (db m439) |
| Maryland (Garrett County), Friendsville — Friend’s Graveyard |
| | Nearby are the graves of John Friend, Sr. (1732–1808), Kerrenhappuch Hyatt (d. 1798), his wife, and their son Gabriel (1761–1852), John and Gabriel were soldiers in the Revolution. The first permanent settlers in Garrett County, they settled on the Youghiogheny River at "Friends Fortune," now known as Friendsville. — Map (db m405) |
| Maryland (Garrett County), Friendsville — The Grave of Meshack Browning |
| | (1781–1859) Born at Damascus, Maryland. Garrett County's most famous hunter, Browning wrote the book, "Forty-Four Years of the Life of a Hunter". During this time he killed two thousand deer and five hundred bear. — Map (db m430) |
| Maryland (Garrett County), Granstville — Castleman’s River Bridge — (Formerly "Little Youghiogeny") |
| | Erected 1813 by David Shriver, Jr., Sup't of the "Cumberland Road" (The National Road). This 80 foot span was the largest stone arch in America at the time. It was continuously used from 1813 to 1933. — Map (db m100) |
| Maryland (Garrett County), Granstville — Early Inns |
| | The Casselman Inn. You are standing in front of the Casselman Inn, which was opened in 1842 by Solomon Sterner. This establishment has also been known as Sterner House, Drovers' Inn, Farmers' Hotel and Dorsey Hotel. There was a large outdoor corral here during the years when it was a major stop for cattle drovers.
Mile Marker. The white cast iron mile marker here is one of many that were installed in 1835 when the State of Maryland took over responsibility for the National Road from . . . — Map (db m360) |
| Maryland (Garrett County), Granstville — General Braddock’s 5th Camp |
| | On the march to Fort Duquesne June 19th, 1755. By Washington’s advice, Braddock pushed forward from Little Meadows to this camp with 1200 chosen men and officers leaving the heavy artillery and baggage behind to follow by easy stages under Colonel Dunbar. — Map (db m357) |
| Maryland (Garrett County), Grantsville — Bear Camp |
| | General Braddock's 6th camp on the march to Fort Duquesne Saturday and Sunday June 20th and 21st, 1755. Washington was forced to remain behind with a guard on account of "violent fevers" until cured by "Dr. James's Powders (one of the most excellent medicines in the world)," he wrote his brother Augustine. — Map (db m356) |
| Maryland (Garrett County), Grantsville — Crash of a United States B-52 Bomber — Mountain District American Legion Monument |
| | This monument is dedicated to the citizens of this area who gave their time and their energy and their skill, for more than five days in sub zero weather and deep snow, to assist the air and ground rescue teams in recovering the victims of a crash of a United States B-52 bomber on a routine flight over this area on January 13, 1964.
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In memory and as a tribute to Major Robert L. Payne, Major Robert E. Townley, S/Sgt. Melvin Wooten, and the survivors Major Thomas W. . . . — Map (db m8909) |
| Maryland (Garrett County), Grantsville — Grantsville — A Heritage of Hospitality |
| | When the National Road came through here in 1815, this settlement was a half mile away along the old Braddock Road. This “New Grantsville” developed just west of the Casselman Bridge, completed a few years earlier. About a dozen buildings were moved from “Old Grantsville” to take advantage of the new road and the prosperity it would bring.
Entrepreneurs built several hotels, allowing weary travelers to rest. The National Hotel opened its doors right across the street, . . . — Map (db m477) |
| Maryland (Garrett County), Grantsville — Keyser’s Ridge — Living with Extreme Weather |
| | “I saw the wind blow so hard on Keyser’s Ridge, that it took six men to hold the hair on one man’s head.”
In the early days of the National Road, this stretch was often “snowed up” with drifts up to twenty feet deep. Stagecoaches and freight wagons were stopped here for days at a time. When they could travel, they sometimes left the blocked roadbeds and rolled across the nearby “skirting glades.”
Keyser’s Ridge is no place for the faint . . . — Map (db m514) |
| Maryland (Garrett County), Grantsville — Leo J. Beachy — Photographing the National Road |
| | “My camera lens does not lie. It took just what it saw, no more, no less.” –Leo Beachy
Leo J. Beachy (1874–1927) left us a special legacy. One of seven children raised on a farm named Mt. Nebo, he lived in these mountains all his life. He enjoyed drawing pictures and began his career as a teacher. At thirty-one, he found his real calling.
“What induced me to take up photography was that I wanted our home photographer to go to that old log school where . . . — Map (db m431) |
| Maryland (Garrett County), Grantsville — Little Meadows |
| | General Braddock's 4th camp on the march to Fort Duquesne June 17, 1755. Washington arrived here after Braddock's defeat July 15th, 1755. Washington also stopped here May 9th, 1754, July 7th or 8th, 1754, October 1st, 1770, November 26th, 1770 and September 10, 1784. — Map (db m361) |
| Maryland (Garrett County), Grantsville — Negro Mountain — The Highest Point on the National Road |
| | You have reached the highest point on the National Road. Here, in the far western mountains of Maryland is the backbone of eastern America. In 1817, the National Road construction crew took on the challenge of crossing this tough terrain by laying a crushed stone road surface and building a stone bridge over nearby Puzzley Run.
By the 1930s, the National Road evolved into an asphalt and concrete ribbon. This improved road surface inspired a new generation of travelers to “hit the . . . — Map (db m5409) |
| Maryland (Garrett County), Grantsville — Stanton’s Mill |
| | In 1797, Thomas Stanton conveyed water rights to Jesse Tomlinson, and Tomlinson built the first grist mill on the site of Col. Dunbar's 1755 hospital encampment.
The mill was prime reason for settlement in this area. In addition to being an important source of grain products for man and beast, the mill served as the nerve center for the area—a place for voting, bartering and news-gathering. Like the three roads and the three bridges nearby, the mill represents major epochs in milling: . . . — Map (db m438) |
| Maryland (Garrett County), Grantsville — The Fuller-Baker House — A Rare Log Building with a Pedigree |
| | This humble log cabin is a rare survivor of a common dwelling built by early settlers on the Allegheny frontier. Built after 1813 as a two-story log building, its large size has led some to believe it was once used as a tavern, giving respite to travelers along the National Road. It would be the only log tavern to survive on the old National Road between Cumberland and Wheeling, West Virginia.
Henry Fuller came to the Grantsville area in 1837 to work as a stonemason. His talents with stone . . . — Map (db m4921) |
| Maryland (Garrett County), Grantsville — The Little Crossings |
| | The "Little Crossings" of the Little Youghiogeny River, now called Castleman's River). So called by George Washington when he crossed on June 19, 1755, with General Edward Braddock on the ill-fated expedition to Fort Duquesne (Pittsburgh). — Map (db m358) |
| Maryland (Garrett County), Grantsville — Traveling the National Road |
| | Granstville's Main Street, designated today as Alt. Route 40, was once part of the National Road, the country's first federally funded highway. Visit our Town Park to learn more about the history of the National Road.
Traffic on the National Road increased steadily as Americans traveled west. The road became crowded with horse-drawn stagecoaches, Conestoga wagons, freighters, and men on horseback. In addition to people travelling west, there were goods and livestock travelling east to . . . — Map (db m359) |
| Maryland (Garrett County), McHenry — Col. James McHenry of Baltimore |
| | (1753-1816) Aide to Gen. George Washington during the revolution, McHenry was a physician, signer of the constitution from Maryland and Secretary of War from 1796-1800. Named in his honor was the Baltimore fort that withstood the British bombardment Sept. 13-14, 1814. He purchased, circa 1805, land near here in what was then called Buffalo Marsh and Cherry Tree Meadows, and this settlement took his name. — Map (db m57) |
| Maryland (Garrett County), McHenry — Gettysburg Campaign — Invasion & Retreat |
| | After stunning victories at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, Virginia, early in May 1863, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee carried the war through Maryland, across the Mason and Dixon Line and into Pennsylvania. His infantry marched north through the Shenandoah Valley and western Maryland as his cavalry, led by Gen. J.E.B. Stuart, harassed Union supply lines to the east. Union Gen. Joseph Hooker, replaced on June 28 by Gen. George G. Meade, led the Army of the Potomac from the Washington . . . — Map (db m2170) |
| Maryland (Garrett County), McHenry — Thayer Game Refuge |
| | 1029 acres, purchased June 28, 1927, from John O. Thayer; from Hunter's License Fund, for the purpose of propagating game. — Map (db m396) |
| Maryland (Garrett County), McHenry — The National Road — The Road that Built the Nation |
| | “. . . so many happy people, restless in the midst of abundance.” —Alexis de Tocqueville, 1840.
Americans are an adventurous people. From
past to present, they have used feet, horses,
wagons, stagecoaches, canals, railroads,
bicycles, automobiles, trucks and buses to
“perpetually change their plans and abodes.”
Centuries ago, George Washington dreamed of
a highway joining east and west. In 1806,
Thomas Jefferson made that roadway a . . . — Map (db m2171) |
| Maryland (Garrett County), Mountain Lake Park — You Were Gone Before We Knew It |
| | No long farewell embraces,
No time to say goodbye,
You were gone before we knew it.
And no matter how we try,
Our tears can’t build a stairway,
Nor our memories a lane,
That reaches up to Heaven,
To bring you home again.
So with each day’s sunrise,
Each spring with flowers new,
We thank God for His blessings,
Those precious days with you.
Dedicated to the Memory of the Children who died on September 10, 1959, at the Mountain Lake Park railroad crossing on . . . — Map (db m480) |
| Maryland (Garrett County), Oakland — 1884 Oakland Train Station |
| | Given the architectural design term "Queen Ann Style" by its architect E. Francis Baldwin, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's "1884 Oakland Train Station" is the third building to occupy this location. The first station was a small, square two-story wooden building constructed shortly after the railroad passed through Oakland in October 1851. It was destroyed by fire in 1874, when the Glades Hotel across the tracks burned. A one story utility building served as the station until the present . . . — Map (db m399) |
| Maryland (Garrett County), Oakland — A Bit of History - The Fireside |
| | The large stone fireplace that now stands like a sentinel along the railroad tracks is a solitary reminder of Oakland's colorful hey-day. In the late 1800’s the area from here to the B&O station was a virtual beehive of activity. With twelve passenger trains arriving daily, the numerous hotels and establishments along Second Street and the now extinct Railroad Street were alive with throngs of people from east and west. One such establishment on Railroad Street was J.J. Raynold's Café and . . . — Map (db m488) |
| Maryland (Garrett County), Oakland — Campsite |
| | In August 1918, and again in July 1921, Henry Ford, Thomas A. Edison, Harvey Firestone, John Burroughs and company encamped here by Muddy Creek Falls. — Map (db m633) |
| Maryland (Garrett County), Oakland — Cobbler Shop In 1859 |
| | This building is one of Oakland’s oldest. Also known as New Glades House & Central Hotel, Dr. M.C. Hinebaugh’s Hospital in 1908. — Map (db m634) |
| Maryland (Garrett County), Oakland — Deep Creek Lake, Garrett County |
| | Property of the Youghiogheny Hydro Electric Corporation of the Associated Gas and Electric System. Lake under the supervision of the Conservation Department of Maryland. The following streams flow into the lake: Deep and Cherry Creeks, North and Green Glades, Meadow Mountain, Piney, Poland, Pawn, Gravley, Marsh, Smith and Bull's Arm Runs. — Map (db m58) |
| Maryland (Garrett County), Oakland — Fort Alice — Railroad Bridge Destroyed |
| | On April 26, 1863, during the Confederate occupation of Oakland, a detachment of Confederate Capt. John H. McNeill's partisan rangers attacked the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad bridge here over the Youghiogheny River. They were part of a larger group that entered Oakland that Sunday as Confederate Gen. William E. “Grumble” Jones led an incursion into West Virginia and Maryland to hamper rail movements of Federal troops and supplies. The Confederates disarmed the small garrison at Fort . . . — Map (db m481) |
| Maryland (Garrett County), Oakland — Garrett County Courthouse |
| | The domed building on the hill to your right is the Garrett County Courthouse. Built in 1907 in a classical Greek style and designed by Architect J. Riley Gordon, this is the second building in Oakland to be called the Garrett County Courthouse. The first was built in 1877 one block away at the corner of Fourth and Green Streets. For the first five years after Garrett became a county in 1872, a court was held at the Glades Hotel.
The Garrett County Commissioners purchased the present site . . . — Map (db m487) |
| Maryland (Garrett County), Oakland — Garrett Memorial Church — (St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church) |
| | Directly behind you, John W. Garrett built Garrett Memorial Church in 1869 as a memorial to his brother Henry S. Garrett who died in 1867. The site was originally chosen by his brother for a church, but he died before steps could be taken to build it. Early residents referred to it as “the stone church” since it was the first church in Oakland to be completely constructed of this material. The Garrett brothers had a long affiliation with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and the . . . — Map (db m467) |
| Maryland (Garrett County), Oakland — Gettysburg Campaign — Invasion & Retreat |
| | After stunning victories at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, Virginia, early in May 1863, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee carried the war through Maryland, across the Mason and Dixon Line and into Pennsylvania. His infantry marched north through the Shenandoah Valley and western Maryland as his cavalry, led by Gen. J.E.B. Stuart, harassed Union supply lines to the east. Union Gen. Joseph Hooker, replaced on June 28 by Gen. George G. Meade, led the Army of the Potomac from the Washington . . . — Map (db m484) |
| Maryland (Garrett County), Oakland — Hoye-Crest |
| | Highest point in Maryland: Backbone Mountain, Garrett County, 3360 feet above sea level. Named for Captain Charles E. Hoye, founder of the Garrett County Historical Society. Dedicated September 1, 1952. — Map (db m154) |
| Maryland (Garrett County), Oakland — MaryLandscapes |
| | The Bay is part of a vast interconnected ecosystem. Everything done on land affects the Bay and the plants and animals that live there.
Who is affected by the health of the Chesapeake Bay? The 48 major rivers, 100 smaller rivers, and thousands of tiny creeks that make up the Chesapeake Bay watershed are home to over 2,700 species of plants and animals and 15 million people. The Bay is part of a vast interconnected ecosystem. Sewage, manure, fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, and . . . — Map (db m486) |
| Maryland (Garrett County), Oakland — Oakland - Confederate Railroad Raid |
| | On Sunday, April 26, 1863, a detachment of Confederate Capt. John H. McNeill's partisan rangers under Col. A. W. Harman attacked the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad facilities here in Oakland. They were part of Confederate Gen. William E. “Grumble” Jones’ incursion into West Virginia and Maryland to hamper the rail movements of Federal troops and supplies.
The town was defended by Company O, 6th West Virginia Infantry, a Preston County unit. The Confederates arrived about 11 a.m. . . . — Map (db m485) |
| Maryland (Garrett County), Oakland — The Glades Hotel |
| | Facing the railroad tracks directly in front of you was the Glades Hotel. Deriving its name from the nearby area called “Youghiogheny Glades,” the Glades Hotel was built in the mid-1850’s by Perry Lyle directly across the tracks from the 1851 Oakland railroad station. John Dailey, who gradually extended it parallel to the tracks tripling its original length, purchased it in 1859. Among guests at the hotel were a number of railroad officials and, before the Civil War, U.S. Senator . . . — Map (db m468) |
| Maryland (Garrett County), Oakland — Welcome to Dailey’s Park |
| | Dailey’s Park. The Garrett County Historical Society welcomes you to Dailey’s Park. This park is named in honor of John and Ann Rebecca Dailey, who owned and operated the Glades Hotel in Oakland from 1859 to 1881. Historian Thomas Scharf noted that “Mr. Dailey was one of the best known hotel proprietors in the country and had a reputation for urbanity and a thorough knowledge of his business.” In addition to the Glades Hotel, Mr. Dailey also managed the Revere House in . . . — Map (db m466) |
| Maryland (Garrett County), Red House — McCulloch’s Path |
| | (Named for an early pioneer.) The first trail through The Glades passed near this point. George Washington on his visit here in September 1784, wrote of it: “McCulloch’s Path which owes its origin to buffaloes, being no other than their tracks from one lick to another”. “Archy’s Spring” is nearby. — Map (db m457) |
| Maryland (Garrett County), Redhouse — Highest Point on the Maryland State Roads System |
| | Elevation 3095 feet. Maryland State Roads Commission. J. N. Mackall, Chairman & Chief Engineer; L.T. Downey, District Engineer. Contractor: T. D. Claiborne Co. Inc., August Mencken. — Map (db m1071) |
| Maryland (Garrett County), Swanton — Altamont – Confederate Railroad Raid |
| | On April 26, 1963, a detachment of Confederate Capt. John H. McNeill’s partisan rangers attacked the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad facilities here at Altamont. They were part of a larger group that entered Oakland that Sunday as Confederate Gen. William E. “Grumble” Jones led an incursion into West Virginia and Maryland to hamper the rail movements of Federal troops and supplies.
Capt. Edward H. McDonald led the ranger detachment into Altamont to destroy the facilities here. . . . — Map (db m483) |
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