Garrett Co (MD)

Mountain Lake Park, a town of unique character in Garrett County, Maryland, is a fine example of a Victorian resort that grew out of two American activities of the nineteenth century, the Methodist Camp Meeting which was aimed at spiritual renewal and a Chautauqua, an educational and recreational assembly with programs that included lectures and concerts modeled after the original summer schools inaugurated at Chautauqua, New York. 

Garrett County, Maryland is celebrating its 150th birthday this year. The county was split off from Allegany County in 1872, This collection of Albert Feldstein's historic postcards shows the beauty and diversity of Garrett County from the 1910s to the 1960s, with streets and buildings some familar and some completely changed. 

Soldiers who fought in the Revolutionary War were rewarded by the state of Maryland with land "west of Fort Cumberland". The map of "military lots" assigned in 1787 shows the land grants in Garrett County, Maryland given to those who served in the war.

The 1952 issue of Kitzy Hi Lites, the school year book of the Kitzmiller High School, Garrett County, Maryland, was intended by its staff to be an annual that would be "a source of pleasant memories and a record of happy events." 

In 1981 Kitzmiller High School, Garrett County, Maryland held a high school reunion. Photographs were taken of classes from 1926 to 1952.

The Coal Talk Oral History project includes stories and memories from Western Maryland coal communities. This includes perspectives of the women and men in the coal mining families, as well as the insights, experiences, and contributions of those who went into the mines. Interviews are also available for viewing. The oral history project was directed by Dr. Gail N. Herman, assisted by Reverend John Grant. The project was sponsored in 1989-1993 by Garrett Recreation, Parks, and Tourism with partial funding from Garrett County Development Corporation.

Mary Miller Strauss was born in Accident, Maryland and taught in the elementary schools of the Garrett County Public School system for 33 years. After her retirement in 1976, she continued as a resource teacher in many local county schools. She was well known throughout the state as a very knowledgeable local and Garrett County historian. She wrote Flowery Vale, a history of Accident, Maryland. This book brought alive her love for her birthplace and the people from the time of the first settlers, the James Drane Family, to the present.

The Way We Worked is a Smithsonian traveling exhibition that was displayed February 2017 in Allegany County, Maryland. The Western Maryland Heritage Association presented exhibitions about ‘the way we worked’ at six locations in Allegany County in conjunction with Maryland Humanities and the Smithsonian. The Allegany Museum in Cumberland traced the changes that have affected the American workforce and work environments over the past 150 years.

This collection comprises the news stories published by Cumberland and Oakland newspapers at the time a B-52 bomber crashed in a snow storm on Big Savage Mountain, near Grantsville, Garrett County, on January 13, 1964. The B-52 bomber had crew of five and two thermonuclear bombs flying in it. The crash resulted in a massive search for the location of the plane, and for the crew, four of whom had ejected from the plane.