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This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Garrett County, Maryland, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a map. [1]
The average household size was 2.38 and the average family size was 2.92. In the town, the population was spread out, with 22.8% under the age of 18, 2.3% from 18 to 24, 38.6% from 25 to 44, 28.1% from 45 to 64, and 8.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females, there were 85.9 males.
Glen Afton Spring, near Pen Mar. The Pen Mar area became prominent in the late 19th century with the development of a formal resort there in 1877. [2] Colonel John Mifflin Hood rightly believed that a resort area in the Blue Ridge Mountains would encourage the public to use his trains from the Western Maryland Railroad to travel to the area.
It is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story brick structure built during the 1830s–1840s. [11] Stone House: Stone House is on an abandoned section of U.S. Route 40 at Pleasant Valley, about two miles west of Flintstone. It is the shell of an early-19th-century, 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story stone structure with a gable roof. It was supposedly built about 1819 as a tavern ...
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In 1877, the site was opened as an amusement park and resort area by the Western Maryland Railway (WM). [1] During the summer months the railroad offered frequent train service on its "Blue Mountain Express" from Baltimore to Pen Mar. [2]: 244–6 The WM also ran trains from Hagerstown, Maryland, to Pen Mar. [3]
[2] Like much of Maryland, slavery was present in the Ruxton and Riderwood communities during the 18th century, despite local Quaker and Methodist resistance. In 1790, enslaved people comprised nearly 45% of the area's population. [2] In 1833, J. Aquilla Scott, a free Black man, founded St. John's Church, a historic A.U.M.P. Church.
Located about 75 miles northeast of L.A., Mountain High has three mountains, an ice rink and Yeti's Snowplay, which includes tubing and sledding for young ones.