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I-68/US 40 westbound and US 219 southbound at the exit for MD 495 in Grantsville The main mode of transportation to Grantsville is by road. Interstate 68 , U.S. Route 40 and U.S. Route 219 all traverse Grantsville via the National Freeway, an east-west freeway traversing western Maryland and northern West Virginia.
National Hotel (demolished): The National Hotel was on U.S. Route 40 at Maryland Route 495, Grantsville. It was a 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 -story, 19th-century hip-roofed frame structure built about 1842. It was built for Henry Fuller, an innkeeper from Salisbury, Pennsylvania , on the site of the Lehman House, an earlier hostelry.
Three rooms of the Penn Alps Restaurant were originally a part of the log stagecoach stop known as the Little Crossings Inn. The village as it is today was founded by Alta Schrock in 1957. [3] The historic buildings in the village were taken from various locations across Western Maryland and were restored on site. [4]
The Casselman Bridge is a historic transportation structure on the Casselman River, located immediately east of Grantsville in Garrett County, Maryland, and preserved by the state of Maryland as Casselman River Bridge State Park. [2] [4] The bridge was built in 1813–1814 as part of the National Road. Historic markers posted at each end read:
The Casselman River is a 56.5-mile-long (90.9 km) [6] tributary of the Youghiogheny River in western Maryland and Pennsylvania in the United States. [7] The Casselman River drains an area of 576 square miles.
Maryland Route 495 (MD 495) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. Known for most of its length as Bittinger Road, the state highway runs 23.02 miles (37.05 km) from MD 135 in Altamont north to U.S. Route 40 Alternate (US 40 Alt) in Grantsville .
East of Grantsville on U.S. Route 40 39°41′48″N 79°08′37″W / 39.696667°N 79.143611°W / 39.696667; -79.143611 ( Casselman's Bridge, National Grantsville
East of Grantsville, Alt US 40 passes over the Casselman River on a steel bridge built in 1933. Downstream from this bridge is the Casselman River Bridge State Park, centered on the stone arch bridge which originally carried the National Road over the Casselman River. [9] US 40 Alt eastbound past MD 495 in Grantsville