Newspapers & Magazines (MD)

These compilations offer a day-by-day list of canal-related news items from the Cumberland Alleganian and other newspapers from several years. Items include canal boat arrivals and departures, accidents, arrests, and conditions along the canal. Also included are a few reports from other newspapers, such as the Alexandria Gazette, The Shepherdstown Register, and the Hagerstown Herald and Torch Light. The compilations are available in PDF format and are listed by year.

The Allegany High School Golden Jubilee Magazine spans the school years of 1889 to 1938; a range of nearly 50 years. The pages are full of student and faculty photos and honorable mentions, comments about the several men and women’s sports teams (like basketball, baseball, football, soccer, tennis, track, and volleyball), the band and orchestra performances over the years, theatre events and plays, clubs, graduations, and other fun, unique remarks from each class.

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.

Newspaper articles mainly from Hagerstown, but also Cumberland and Harrisburg, tell the story of activities along the Chesapeake and Ohio canal; the flooding and wash aways, the drownings, slave activities, damage during the Civil War, news of the use of the canal (including how many tons of canal were carried to Williamsport and Georgetown) and other stories.