Millstone & Moffet Station

Millstone and Moffet Station. Western Maryland Rail Trail. , A small community originally called Millstone Point, but later changed to just Millstone, grew up along the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. Andrew Jackson (General and later U.S. President) met a committee from Hancock here. Harpers Monthly relates the following incident: "Some excavations were being made in the neighborhood and several blasts were fired in honor of the occasion as ‘Old Hickory’ approached. ‘Didn't the detonations alarm your horse, general?' inquired a solicitous committeeman. ‘No sir,' said Jackson emphatically; ‘My horse and I have heard a similar sort of music before’.”, During the Civil War several companies of the First Regiment Maryland Infantry were stationed at Millstone Point to protect the C&O Canal from Confederates. In 1909 Millstone was reported to have a population of 100 and a general store and post office, a harnessmaker, distiller, mason, several carpenters, a teacher and a blacksmith. There are also numerous farmers in the area., The Moffet Station was constructed nearby when the Cumberland Extension of the Western Maryland Railway came through this location., (captions) , Millstone School, Photo courtesy of the Hancock Historical Society , Moffet Station, Photo courtesy of the Western Maryland Historical Society, Inc.