HISTORY OF THE DISTRICTS OF

Allegany County, MD

NEW 62 PAGE BOOKLET

Individual chapters on each of 11 Allegany County Districts give a close up view of Maryland life in the 1800s. Utilizing a mixture of colorful tales, factual data, and individual biographies, this 62-page booklet is compiled from excerpts from J. Thomas Scharf's History of Western Maryland, originally published in 1882 by Louis H. Everts of Philadelphia, and Maryland, a Guide to the Old Line State (1940), a WPA publication . The booklet is printed on 8 1/2" x 11" 60# opaque paper. The covers are an 80# card stock, with the front cover protected with a vinyl sheet.

Ever wonder why the District of Columbia was called the District of Columbia? Well, it's because that's what it was called when it was a part of the State of Maryland. Counties in Maryland are divided into districts, the way counties in other states are divided into townships.

The information in this booklet varies greatly, with some districts having only a paragraph or two and others going into considerable detail concerning church histories, names of early settlers, names of officials, cemeteries lists, business enterprises, transportation improvements, fraternal organizations, historic events, trivia, personal bios, and much more. The Districts of Allegany County ( rose), their major towns (teal), their special features or events (violet), and their bios (orange) include:

Orleans: Little Orleans, Piney Grove; the Carroll White Sulphur Springs.

Old Town: Old Town (formerly Skipton); Alum Hill; Col. Thomas Cresap, Luther Martin.

Flintstone: Murley's Branch; Benjamin L. Turner

Rawlings' Station: Rawlings' Station, Brady's Mill

Westernport: Westernport; Canal Extension Convention

Barton: Barton; Swanton Mines; William Shaw, Andrew Bruce Shaw, John Poper

Lonaconing;

Frostburg; Frostburg; Braddock's Grave, "The Shades of Death"; Savage Mountain Fire-Brick Works, Thomas H. Paul & Sons Iron Works, Frostburg Gaslight Company, A.J. Willison's Steam Planing Mill and Sash Factory; Fire of 1874; William Ward, Meshach Frost, Tobias Steyer, George McCulloh, Dr. James M. Porter.

East Frostburg; Clarysville, Parkersburg, Pompey Smash; Col. William Lamar, Minor Gibson, George McCulloh, Dr. J. T. Getzendanner.

Mount Savage; Mount Savage,

East Lonaconing; Lonaconing, Ocean, Pekin, Moscow, Carrigansville, Ellerslie; Transportation and Mining, Fire of 1881; Dr. G. Ellis Porter, O.D. Robbins, John Ryan, Dr. John M. Williams.

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