This map, based on an 1875 map of Allegany County, marks in red the towns of Hancock, Cumberland, Old Town (along the C&O Canal and the Potomac River) and Paddy Town.
…Crops in Canada arc-suffering from drought though they look well in some parts.
Maj. Robert Swan of the Confederate army was in Hagerstown last week on parole.
Colored Substitutes.—It is said that Provost Marshal General Fry has issued instructions to the various Provost Marshals that, under existing laws, they can receive or accept colored substitutes for white persons. The decision will naturally cause a great reduction of the rates demanded for white substitutes.
THE STATE CONVENTION
Capt. W. B. Bonacher. The dead alive
THE SECOND MARYLAND PHB
This Regiment which has been recently stationed at Greenland Gap has been ordered to the front and passed through the city via B & O. R. R. to-day. They will join Gen. Hunter's column, whose field of operation will be the Shenandoah Valley. The boys generally seem eager for the fray, and express their determination to maintain the reputation that the Maryland troops have already gained on many a well-fought field, A portion of this regiment has re-enlisted for three years, or the war: the term of the reminder will expire in August next.
The Alleganian
CUMBERLAND, MARYLAND
Tuesday Morning, May 24, 1864
Local news
The DRAFT
FOR ALLEGANY COUNTY
Official list of Those Drawn
Total Number Drafted 87
The following is the official list of persons drafted into the service of the United States from this county which has been furnished to us by the County Provost Marshal, Daniel Duncan, Esq. There were 14 drawn from the Market House District, and none from the Court House District, its quota having been raised by volunteers:
Interview conducted at Homewood, Williamsport, March 11, 2011. Interviewer - John Frye. Interviewees - Sue Hoch, Robert May, Jack Myers, Charles South, and Maurice Snyder.
John: We want to talk to you about the 36 flood …
Jack: I am Jack Meyers. I am 87 now, 13 when flood came to Williamsport
Sue: My name is Sue Bowers Hoch, I was born and raised in Williamsport. I was a Bowers and I was only 5 years old at the time of the flood, and I’m 80 now.
John A Williamsport Bowers
POTOMAC EDISON NEWS
Volume 4, No. 4
APRIL 1936
SNOW-ICE-FLOODS
ANOTHER VICTORY
MAIN GENERATING PLANT OF THE POTOMAC EDISON SYSTEM SILENCED BY RECENT FLOOD
The two pictures at top were taken of the Williamsport Power Plant after 3,200,000 gallons of water had flooded the condenser pit and stopped generating operations.
POTOMAC EDISON NEWS
APRIL 1936
COMPANY PROPERTY DAMAGE IS GREAT
EMPLOYES TO BE CONGRATULATED
Since the Potomac River and its tributaries roared their way to the highest flood mark in history last week, The Potomac Edison Company has had an army of workers laboring night and day in twelvehour shifts, cleaning power plants, drying water soaked equipment and repairing damaged transmission lines.
HEAVY DAMAGE TO COUNTY HIGHWAYS
Cost to Repair Roads Here is Estimated to Be $188,000
It will cost Maryland $188,000 to repair the damage caused to state highways in Washington County by subzero weather and by the floods, Dr. H E. Tabler, chairman of the State Roads Commission, said yesterday after he and Nathan L. Smith, chief engineer, completed a survey.