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Belvidere, Gazebo, South of intersection Camp Road & Gibson Hill Road, Belvidere, Allegany County, NY

Belvidere, Gazebo, South of intersection Camp Road & Gibson Hill Road,...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-378 Survey number: HABS NY-6011-B

Fred Ess in the door of his farmhouse. Dalton, New York, Allegany County

Fred Ess in the door of his farmhouse. Dalton, New York, Allegany Coun...

Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Kelly-Springfield Tire Plant, 701 Kelly Road, Cumberland, Allegany County, MD

Kelly-Springfield Tire Plant, 701 Kelly Road, Cumberland, Allegany Cou...

Significance: The Kelly-Springfield Tire Plant is a technologically and historically significant industrial complex in Allegany County. The facility was in operation from 1921 until 1987 and served as Kelly-Sp... More

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, Lock 72, 174.4 miles above tidewater, Oldtown, Allegany County, MD

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, Lock 72, 174.4 miles above tidewater, Oldtown...

See HABS No. DC-147 for list of C&O Canal structures. Survey number: HABS MD-819

William House Farm, House, East side of West Wilson Road, Flintstone, Allegany County, MD

William House Farm, House, East side of West Wilson Road, Flintstone, ...

Significance: The dwelling on the William House Farm is significant as a typical example of a hall-parlor plan house of log construction, representative of the type of dwelling associated with farmsteads in eas... More

Picryl description: Public domain image of fire insurance plan / map, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Picryl description: Public domain image of fire insurance plan / map, ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a fire insurance map, fire insurance plan, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, Lockhouse at Lock 71, 167.0 miles above tidewater, Oldtown, Allegany County, MD

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, Lockhouse at Lock 71, 167.0 miles above tidew...

See HABS No. DC-147 for list of other C&O Canal structures. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-63 Survey number: HABS MD-817

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, Busey Cabin, 151.18 miles above tidewater, Oldtown, Allegany County, MD

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, Busey Cabin, 151.18 miles above tidewater, Ol...

See also HABS No. DC-147 for list of other C&O Canal structures. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-53 Survey number: HABS MD-805

Coleman House, Port Allegany, McKean County, PA

Coleman House, Port Allegany, McKean County, PA

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-92 Survey number: HABS PA-557

Coleman House, Port Allegany, McKean County, PA

Coleman House, Port Allegany, McKean County, PA

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-92 Survey number: HABS PA-557

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Rail Rolling Mill, Elm Street & Locust Alley, Cumberland, Allegany County, MD

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Rail Rolling Mill, Elm Street & Locust Alle...

Significance: With the inexhaustible supply of coal and the eventual juncture of the route to Pittsburgh with the mainline at Cumberland, the B & O though significant economics were available by producing rails... More

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Rail Rolling Mill, Elm Street & Locust Alley, Cumberland, Allegany County, MD

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Rail Rolling Mill, Elm Street & Locust Alle...

Significance: With the inexhaustible supply of coal and the eventual juncture of the route to Pittsburgh with the mainline at Cumberland, the B & O though significant economics were available by producing rails... More

Waverly Street Bridge, Spanning George's Creek, Westernport, MD, Westernport, Allegany County, MD

Waverly Street Bridge, Spanning George's Creek, Westernport, MD, Weste...

Significance: The Waverly Street Bridge is significant as one of the few remaining bowstring arch-truss bridges in Maryland. The bowstring arch truss was one of the first metal trusses to be widely used in nin... More

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, Lockhouse at Lock 70, 166.9 miles above tidewater, Oldtown, Allegany County, MD

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, Lockhouse at Lock 70, 166.9 miles above tidew...

See also HABS No. DC-147 for list of other C&O Canal structures. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-60 Survey number: HABS MD-815

Consolidation Coal Company Mine No. 11, Air-Manway Shaft, East side of State Route 936, Midlothian, Allegany County, MD

Consolidation Coal Company Mine No. 11, Air-Manway Shaft, East side of...

Significance: The air/manway shaft contained both escape stairs and an air shaft for Consolidation Coal Company Mine No. 11. It was a significant portion of the safety features of the mine. The air shaft was ... More

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, Sideling Creek Aqueduct, Above Lock 56, 136.6 miles above tidewater, Hancock, Washington County, MD

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, Sideling Creek Aqueduct, Above Lock 56, 136.6...

See also HABS No. DC-147 for list of other C&O Canal structures. Survey number: HABS MD-806

Westernport Public School, West side Hammond Street south of Division Street, Westernport, Allegany County, MD

Westernport Public School, West side Hammond Street south of Division ...

Significance: The Westernport School later known as the Hammond Street School is significant for its role in the education of generations of children from southwestern Allegany County and southeastern Garrett C... More

Westernport Public School, West side Hammond Street south of Division Street, Westernport, Allegany County, MD

Westernport Public School, West side Hammond Street south of Division ...

Significance: The Westernport School later known as the Hammond Street School is significant for its role in the education of generations of children from southwestern Allegany County and southeastern Garrett C... More

Ocean Mine No. 1 Complex, Powerhouse & Ventilation Fan, Midland, Allegany County, MD

Ocean Mine No. 1 Complex, Powerhouse & Ventilation Fan, Midland, Alleg...

Significance: The Ocean Mine Number One Ventilation Fan and Powerhouse are among the few structures remaining from what was once the Consolidation Coal Company's Ocean Mine Number One complex. Together they re... More

William House Farm, Barn, East side of West Wilson Road, Flintstone, Allegany County, MD

William House Farm, Barn, East side of West Wilson Road, Flintstone, A...

Significance: The barn on the William House Farm is significant as a typical example of a timber-frame bank barn, representative of a type of structure associated with the mixed farming carried on in eastern Al... More

Dr. James Marshall Price House, 39 West Main Street, Frostburg, Allegany County, MD

Dr. James Marshall Price House, 39 West Main Street, Frostburg, Allega...

Significance: The building was built c. 1890 as a five-bay wide cross gable two story structure. In 1909-10 it was redesigned by Olin Gernach, F.A.I.A., in the Colonial Revival style. The structure was a priv... More

Washington Bottom Farmhouse, Allegany Ballistics Laboratory, Wiley Ford, Mineral County, WV

Washington Bottom Farmhouse, Allegany Ballistics Laboratory, Wiley For...

Significance: This farmhouse is linked to Major Lawerance Washington, brother of President George Washington, and to Felix R. Seymore, prominent land owner and public official of historic Hampshire and Mineral ... More

Erie Railway, Wellsville Station, Pearl & Depot Streets, Wellsville, Allegany County, NY

Erie Railway, Wellsville Station, Pearl & Depot Streets, Wellsville, A...

Survey number: HAER NY-103 Building/structure dates: 1912 Subsequent Work

Kelly-Springfield Tire Plant, Factory Building, 701 Kelly Road, Cumberland, Allegany County, MD

Kelly-Springfield Tire Plant, Factory Building, 701 Kelly Road, Cumber...

Significance: The Factory Building forms the nucleus of the Kelly-Springfield Tire Plant, an historically significant industrial complex in Allegany County. The facility was in operation from 1921 until 1987, ... More

Travels to the westward of the Allegany mountains, in the states of Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee, and return to Charlestown, through the upper Carolinas; containing details on the present state of agriculture and the natural production of these countries; as well as information relative to the commercial connections of these states with those situated to the eastward of the mountains and with lower Louisiana. Undertaken in the year x, 1802, under the auspices of His Excellency M. Chaptal, minister of the interior. With a very correct map of the states in the centre, west and south of the United States

Travels to the westward of the Allegany mountains, in the states of Oh...

Picryl description: Public domain illustrated travel, exploration, and geography book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Travels to the westward of the Allegany mountains, in the states of Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee, and return to Charlestown, through the upper Carolinas; containing details on the present state of agriculture and the natural production of these countries; as well as information relative to the commercial connections of these states with those situated to the eastward of the mountains and with lower Louisiana. Undertaken in the year x, 1802, under the auspices of His Excellency M. Chaptal, minister of the interior. With a very correct map of the states in the centre, west and south of the United States

Travels to the westward of the Allegany mountains, in the states of Oh...

Picryl description: Public domain illustrated travel, exploration, and geography book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Dalton, Allegany County, New York. John Dudeck, an old bachelor living on a submarginal farm

Dalton, Allegany County, New York. John Dudeck, an old bachelor living...

Public domain photograph of New York in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Kelly-Springfield Tire Plant, Cooling Tower, 701 Kelly Road, Cumberland, Allegany County, MD

Kelly-Springfield Tire Plant, Cooling Tower, 701 Kelly Road, Cumberlan...

Significance: The Kelly-Springfield Tire Plant is a technologically and historically significant industrial complex in Allegany County. The facility was in operation from 1921 until 1987 and served as Kelly-Sp... More

Belvidere, South of intersection Camp Road & Gibson Hill Road, Belvidere, Allegany County, NY

Belvidere, South of intersection Camp Road & Gibson Hill Road, Belvide...

Significance: A manor house in the Federal Style, built as a residence and land office for John Barker Church and his son Phillip Church, who were involved in the original development and sub-division of a 100,... More

Proenty Road Bridge, Spanning Jennings Run at Proenty Road, Corriganville, Allegany County, MD

Proenty Road Bridge, Spanning Jennings Run at Proenty Road, Corriganvi...

Significance: The Proenty Road Bridge is significant as one of three steel pony truss bridges remaining in Allegany County. These and other similar bridges were important in the growth of the transportation ne... More

Proenty Road Bridge, Spanning Jennings Run at Proenty Road, Corriganville, Allegany County, MD

Proenty Road Bridge, Spanning Jennings Run at Proenty Road, Corriganvi...

Significance: The Proenty Road Bridge is significant as one of three steel pony truss bridges remaining in Allegany County. These and other similar bridges were important in the growth of the transportation ne... More

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, Paw-Paw Tunnel, 155.2 - 155.8 miles above tidewater, Oldtown, Allegany County, MD

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, Paw-Paw Tunnel, 155.2 - 155.8 miles above tid...

See HABS No. DC-147 for list of other C&O Canal structures. Survey number: HABS MD-810

Erie Railway, Allegany Division, Bridge 367.33, Rush Creek, Botsford Hollow Road, Fillmore, Allegany County, NY

Erie Railway, Allegany Division, Bridge 367.33, Rush Creek, Botsford H...

Survey number: HAER NY-42 Public domain photograph - city, downtown, New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cumberland & Pennsylvania Railroad, Wills Creek Bridge, Spanning Wills Creek 587 feet West of Eckhart Junction, Cumberland, Allegany County, MD

Cumberland & Pennsylvania Railroad, Wills Creek Bridge, Spanning Wills...

Significance: The Wills Creek Bridge is located in the Cumberland and Pennsylvania subdivision of the Western Maryland Railway Company. It is a brick arch viaduct of four spans, each 45 feet in length. The ab... More

Waverly Street Bridge, Spanning George's Creek, Westernport, MD, Westernport, Allegany County, MD

Waverly Street Bridge, Spanning George's Creek, Westernport, MD, Weste...

Significance: The Waverly Street Bridge is significant as one of the few remaining bowstring arch-truss bridges in Maryland. The bowstring arch truss was one of the first metal trusses to be widely used in nin... More

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, Iron Bridge at Lock No. 68, Mile 164.82 of C & O Canal National Park, Oldtown, Allegany County, MD

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, Iron Bridge at Lock No. 68, Mile 164.82 of C ...

Significance: Similar in purpose to other bridges along the canal, this bridge carried traffic over the canal to farmlands and to a ferry on the Potomac River which crossed from Maryland to West Virginia and a ... More

William House Farm, East side of West Wilson Road, Flintstone, Allegany County, MD

William House Farm, East side of West Wilson Road, Flintstone, Allegan...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Maryland, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fillmore Bridge, Spanning Genesee River at County Road 4, Fillmore, Allegany County, NY

Fillmore Bridge, Spanning Genesee River at County Road 4, Fillmore, Al...

Significance: One of the last remaining lenticular truss bridges in the northeastern United States. The bridge is a pin-connected through lenticular truss built by the Berlin Bridge Company of East Berlin, Con... More

Fillmore Bridge, Spanning Genesee River at County Road 4, Fillmore, Allegany County, NY

Fillmore Bridge, Spanning Genesee River at County Road 4, Fillmore, Al...

Significance: One of the last remaining lenticular truss bridges in the northeastern United States. The bridge is a pin-connected through lenticular truss built by the Berlin Bridge Company of East Berlin, Con... More

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, Town Creek Aqueduct, 162.3 miles above tidewater, southwest of State Route 51, Oldtown, Allegany County, MD

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, Town Creek Aqueduct, 162.3 miles above tidewa...

See also HABS No. DC-147 for list of other C&O Canal structures. Survey number: HABS MD-813

Westernport Public School, West side Hammond Street south of Division Street, Westernport, Allegany County, MD

Westernport Public School, West side Hammond Street south of Division ...

Significance: The Westernport School later known as the Hammond Street School is significant for its role in the education of generations of children from southwestern Allegany County and southeastern Garrett C... More

Westernport Public School, West side Hammond Street south of Division Street, Westernport, Allegany County, MD

Westernport Public School, West side Hammond Street south of Division ...

Significance: The Westernport School later known as the Hammond Street School is significant for its role in the education of generations of children from southwestern Allegany County and southeastern Garrett C... More

Westernport Public School, West side Hammond Street south of Division Street, Westernport, Allegany County, MD

Westernport Public School, West side Hammond Street south of Division ...

Significance: The Westernport School later known as the Hammond Street School is significant for its role in the education of generations of children from southwestern Allegany County and southeastern Garrett C... More

Westernport Public School, West side Hammond Street south of Division Street, Westernport, Allegany County, MD

Westernport Public School, West side Hammond Street south of Division ...

Significance: The Westernport School later known as the Hammond Street School is significant for its role in the education of generations of children from southwestern Allegany County and southeastern Garrett C... More

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, Lock Tender's House at Lock 75, 175.6 miles above tidewater, Cumberland, Allegany County, MD

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, Lock Tender's House at Lock 75, 175.6 miles a...

See also HABS No. DC-147 for list of other C&O Canal structures. Significance: The Lock Tender's House at Lock 75, the last lift lock and house along the canal, is one of three such log houses located at the up... More

William House Farm, Barn, East side of West Wilson Road, Flintstone, Allegany County, MD

William House Farm, Barn, East side of West Wilson Road, Flintstone, A...

Significance: The barn on the William House Farm is significant as a typical example of a timber-frame bank barn, representative of a type of structure associated with the mixed farming carried on in eastern Al... More

Washington Bottom Farmhouse, Allegany Ballistics Laboratory, Wiley Ford, Mineral County, WV

Washington Bottom Farmhouse, Allegany Ballistics Laboratory, Wiley For...

Significance: This farmhouse is linked to Major Lawerance Washington, brother of President George Washington, and to Felix R. Seymore, prominent land owner and public official of historic Hampshire and Mineral ... More

Consolidation Coal Company Mine No. 11, Aerovane Fan, East side of State Route 936, Midlothian, Allegany County, MD

Consolidation Coal Company Mine No. 11, Aerovane Fan, East side of Sta...

Significance: The aerovane fan illustrates the evolution of mine ventilation in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century. It is an example of an axial flow fan. These fans generally re... More

Kelly-Springfield Tire Plant, Factory Building, 701 Kelly Road, Cumberland, Allegany County, MD

Kelly-Springfield Tire Plant, Factory Building, 701 Kelly Road, Cumber...

Significance: The Factory Building forms the nucleus of the Kelly-Springfield Tire Plant, an historically significant industrial complex in Allegany County. The facility was in operation from 1921 until 1987, ... More

Kelly-Springfield Tire Plant, Factory Building, 701 Kelly Road, Cumberland, Allegany County, MD

Kelly-Springfield Tire Plant, Factory Building, 701 Kelly Road, Cumber...

Significance: The Factory Building forms the nucleus of the Kelly-Springfield Tire Plant, an historically significant industrial complex in Allegany County. The facility was in operation from 1921 until 1987, ... More

Kelly-Springfield Tire Plant, Factory Building, 701 Kelly Road, Cumberland, Allegany County, MD

Kelly-Springfield Tire Plant, Factory Building, 701 Kelly Road, Cumber...

Significance: The Factory Building forms the nucleus of the Kelly-Springfield Tire Plant, an historically significant industrial complex in Allegany County. The facility was in operation from 1921 until 1987, ... More

Kelly-Springfield Tire Plant, Factory Building, 701 Kelly Road, Cumberland, Allegany County, MD

Kelly-Springfield Tire Plant, Factory Building, 701 Kelly Road, Cumber...

Significance: The Factory Building forms the nucleus of the Kelly-Springfield Tire Plant, an historically significant industrial complex in Allegany County. The facility was in operation from 1921 until 1987, ... More

Kelly-Springfield Tire Plant, Factory Building, 701 Kelly Road, Cumberland, Allegany County, MD

Kelly-Springfield Tire Plant, Factory Building, 701 Kelly Road, Cumber...

Significance: The Factory Building forms the nucleus of the Kelly-Springfield Tire Plant, an historically significant industrial complex in Allegany County. The facility was in operation from 1921 until 1987, ... More

Kelly-Springfield Tire Plant, Factory Building, 701 Kelly Road, Cumberland, Allegany County, MD

Kelly-Springfield Tire Plant, Factory Building, 701 Kelly Road, Cumber...

Significance: The Factory Building forms the nucleus of the Kelly-Springfield Tire Plant, an historically significant industrial complex in Allegany County. The facility was in operation from 1921 until 1987, ... More

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Queen City Hotel & Station, West Side of Park Street, Opposite Ann Street, Cumberland, Allegany County, MD

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Queen City Hotel & Station, West Side of Pa...

Significance: The Queen City Hotel was one of five combination station-hotels built by the B & O during the 1870s. It was designed by Thomas N. Heskett of the railroad's road department, was Italianate in styl... More

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Queen City Hotel & Station, West Side of Park Street, Opposite Ann Street, Cumberland, Allegany County, MD

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Queen City Hotel & Station, West Side of Pa...

Significance: The Queen City Hotel was one of five combination station-hotels built by the B & O during the 1870s. It was designed by Thomas N. Heskett of the railroad's road department, was Italianate in styl... More

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Queen City Hotel & Station, West Side of Park Street, Opposite Ann Street, Cumberland, Allegany County, MD

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Queen City Hotel & Station, West Side of Pa...

Significance: The Queen City Hotel was one of five combination station-hotels built by the B & O during the 1870s. It was designed by Thomas N. Heskett of the railroad's road department, was Italianate in styl... More

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Queen City Hotel & Station, West Side of Park Street, Opposite Ann Street, Cumberland, Allegany County, MD

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Queen City Hotel & Station, West Side of Pa...

Significance: The Queen City Hotel was one of five combination station-hotels built by the B & O during the 1870s. It was designed by Thomas N. Heskett of the railroad's road department, was Italianate in styl... More

Travels to the westward of the Allegany mountains, in the states of Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee, and return to Charlestown, through the upper Carolinas; containing details on the present state of agriculture and the natural production of these countries; as well as information relative to the commercial connections of these states with those situated to the eastward of the mountains and with lower Louisiana. Undertaken in the year x, 1802, under the auspices of His Excellency M. Chaptal, minister of the interior. With a very correct map of the states in the centre, west and south of the United States

Travels to the westward of the Allegany mountains, in the states of Oh...

Picryl description: Public domain illustrated travel, exploration, and geography book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Frank Walker, cutting meat in his farm home near Dalton, New York. Allegany County

Frank Walker, cutting meat in his farm home near Dalton, New York. All...

Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Dalton (vicinity), Allegany County, New York. Fred Ess, a submarginal farmer

Dalton (vicinity), Allegany County, New York. Fred Ess, a submarginal ...

Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, Lift Lock No. 66, State Route 51, Town Creek, Allegany County, MD

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, Lift Lock No. 66, State Route 51, Town Creek,...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-7 Survey number: HAER MD-30-C

Proenty Road Bridge, Spanning Jennings Run at Proenty Road, Corriganville, Allegany County, MD

Proenty Road Bridge, Spanning Jennings Run at Proenty Road, Corriganvi...

Significance: The Proenty Road Bridge is significant as one of three steel pony truss bridges remaining in Allegany County. These and other similar bridges were important in the growth of the transportation ne... More

Proenty Road Bridge, Spanning Jennings Run at Proenty Road, Corriganville, Allegany County, MD

Proenty Road Bridge, Spanning Jennings Run at Proenty Road, Corriganvi...

Significance: The Proenty Road Bridge is significant as one of three steel pony truss bridges remaining in Allegany County. These and other similar bridges were important in the growth of the transportation ne... More

Proenty Road Bridge, Spanning Jennings Run at Proenty Road, Corriganville, Allegany County, MD

Proenty Road Bridge, Spanning Jennings Run at Proenty Road, Corriganvi...

Significance: The Proenty Road Bridge is significant as one of three steel pony truss bridges remaining in Allegany County. These and other similar bridges were important in the growth of the transportation ne... More

Proenty Road Bridge, Spanning Jennings Run at Proenty Road, Corriganville, Allegany County, MD

Proenty Road Bridge, Spanning Jennings Run at Proenty Road, Corriganvi...

Significance: The Proenty Road Bridge is significant as one of three steel pony truss bridges remaining in Allegany County. These and other similar bridges were important in the growth of the transportation ne... More

Consolidation Coal Company Mine No. 11, Lepley Ventilator, East side of State Route 936, Midlothian, Allegany County, MD

Consolidation Coal Company Mine No. 11, Lepley Ventilator, East side o...

Significance: The Lepley ventilator is significant as one of the few centrifugal mine ventilation fans in the eastern United States, surviving in situ. The ventilator, patented in 1903 by Daniel Lepley, helped... More

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, Carpenter Shop at Lock 66, 154.7 miles above tidewater, Oldtown, Allegany County, MD

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, Carpenter Shop at Lock 66, 154.7 miles above ...

See also HABS No. DC-147 for list of other C&O Canal structures. See HABS No. MD-809 for fieldnotes of floor plans. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-61 Survey number: HABS MD-809

Cumberland & Pennsylvania Railroad, Wills Creek Bridge, Spanning Wills Creek 587 feet West of Eckhart Junction, Cumberland, Allegany County, MD

Cumberland & Pennsylvania Railroad, Wills Creek Bridge, Spanning Wills...

Significance: The Wills Creek Bridge is located in the Cumberland and Pennsylvania subdivision of the Western Maryland Railway Company. It is a brick arch viaduct of four spans, each 45 feet in length. The ab... More

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Rail Rolling Mill, Elm Street & Locust Alley, Cumberland, Allegany County, MD

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Rail Rolling Mill, Elm Street & Locust Alle...

Significance: With the inexhaustible supply of coal and the eventual juncture of the route to Pittsburgh with the mainline at Cumberland, the B & O though significant economics were available by producing rails... More

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Rail Rolling Mill, Elm Street & Locust Alley, Cumberland, Allegany County, MD

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Rail Rolling Mill, Elm Street & Locust Alle...

Significance: With the inexhaustible supply of coal and the eventual juncture of the route to Pittsburgh with the mainline at Cumberland, the B & O though significant economics were available by producing rails... More

Western Maryland Railway Bridge, Spanning Maryland Route 51 at Spring Gap, Cumberland, Allegany County, MD

Western Maryland Railway Bridge, Spanning Maryland Route 51 at Spring ...

Significance: The Western Maryland Railway Bridge (Spring Gap Underpass) is significant as a component of the 34-mile section of the Western Maryland Railway, which was acquired by the United States for the Che... More

Western Maryland Railway Bridge, Spanning Maryland Route 51 at Spring Gap, Cumberland, Allegany County, MD

Western Maryland Railway Bridge, Spanning Maryland Route 51 at Spring ...

Significance: The Western Maryland Railway Bridge (Spring Gap Underpass) is significant as a component of the 34-mile section of the Western Maryland Railway, which was acquired by the United States for the Che... More

Waverly Street Bridge, Spanning George's Creek, Westernport, MD, Westernport, Allegany County, MD

Waverly Street Bridge, Spanning George's Creek, Westernport, MD, Weste...

Significance: The Waverly Street Bridge is significant as one of the few remaining bowstring arch-truss bridges in Maryland. The bowstring arch truss was one of the first metal trusses to be widely used in nin... More

Waverly Street Bridge, Spanning George's Creek, Westernport, MD, Westernport, Allegany County, MD

Waverly Street Bridge, Spanning George's Creek, Westernport, MD, Weste...

Significance: The Waverly Street Bridge is significant as one of the few remaining bowstring arch-truss bridges in Maryland. The bowstring arch truss was one of the first metal trusses to be widely used in nin... More

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, Iron Bridge at Lock No. 68, Mile 164.82 of C & O Canal National Park, Oldtown, Allegany County, MD

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, Iron Bridge at Lock No. 68, Mile 164.82 of C ...

Significance: Similar in purpose to other bridges along the canal, this bridge carried traffic over the canal to farmlands and to a ferry on the Potomac River which crossed from Maryland to West Virginia and a ... More

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, Town Creek Aqueduct, 162.3 miles above tidewater, southwest of State Route 51, Oldtown, Allegany County, MD

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, Town Creek Aqueduct, 162.3 miles above tidewa...

See also HABS No. DC-147 for list of other C&O Canal structures. Survey number: HABS MD-813

Westernport Public School, West side Hammond Street south of Division Street, Westernport, Allegany County, MD

Westernport Public School, West side Hammond Street south of Division ...

Significance: The Westernport School later known as the Hammond Street School is significant for its role in the education of generations of children from southwestern Allegany County and southeastern Garrett C... More

Westernport Public School, West side Hammond Street south of Division Street, Westernport, Allegany County, MD

Westernport Public School, West side Hammond Street south of Division ...

Significance: The Westernport School later known as the Hammond Street School is significant for its role in the education of generations of children from southwestern Allegany County and southeastern Garrett C... More

Washington Bottom Farmhouse, Allegany Ballistics Laboratory, Wiley Ford, Mineral County, WV

Washington Bottom Farmhouse, Allegany Ballistics Laboratory, Wiley For...

Significance: This farmhouse is linked to Major Lawerance Washington, brother of President George Washington, and to Felix R. Seymore, prominent land owner and public official of historic Hampshire and Mineral ... More

Kelly-Springfield Tire Plant, Factory Building, 701 Kelly Road, Cumberland, Allegany County, MD

Kelly-Springfield Tire Plant, Factory Building, 701 Kelly Road, Cumber...

Significance: The Factory Building forms the nucleus of the Kelly-Springfield Tire Plant, an historically significant industrial complex in Allegany County. The facility was in operation from 1921 until 1987, ... More

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Queen City Hotel & Station, West Side of Park Street, Opposite Ann Street, Cumberland, Allegany County, MD

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Queen City Hotel & Station, West Side of Pa...

Significance: The Queen City Hotel was one of five combination station-hotels built by the B & O during the 1870s. It was designed by Thomas N. Heskett of the railroad's road department, was Italianate in styl... More

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Queen City Hotel & Station, West Side of Park Street, Opposite Ann Street, Cumberland, Allegany County, MD

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Queen City Hotel & Station, West Side of Pa...

Significance: The Queen City Hotel was one of five combination station-hotels built by the B & O during the 1870s. It was designed by Thomas N. Heskett of the railroad's road department, was Italianate in styl... More

Kelly-Springfield Tire Plant, 701 Kelly Road, Cumberland, Allegany County, MD

Kelly-Springfield Tire Plant, 701 Kelly Road, Cumberland, Allegany Cou...

Significance: The Kelly-Springfield Tire Plant is a technologically and historically significant industrial complex in Allegany County. The facility was in operation from 1921 until 1987 and served as Kelly-Sp... More

Charles R. Krause House, 41 West Main Street, Frostburg, Allegany County, MD

Charles R. Krause House, 41 West Main Street, Frostburg, Allegany Coun...

Significance: The structure is a two and one-half story inverted "T" plan cross gable building with three apartments. Although it is of minor architectural significance as an individual building, it does contr... More

Belvidere, South of intersection Camp Road & Gibson Hill Road, Belvidere, Allegany County, NY

Belvidere, South of intersection Camp Road & Gibson Hill Road, Belvide...

Significance: A manor house in the Federal Style, built as a residence and land office for John Barker Church and his son Phillip Church, who were involved in the original development and sub-division of a 100,... More

Consolidation Coal Company Mine No. 11, East side of State Route 936, Midlothian, Allegany County, MD

Consolidation Coal Company Mine No. 11, East side of State Route 936, ...

Significance: This complex is significant because it contains one of the few centrifugal mine ventilation fans in the eastern United States, surviving in situ. It is also notable because it exemplifies an impo... More

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, Town Creek Aqueduct, Mile 162.3, Oldtown, Allegany County, MD

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, Town Creek Aqueduct, Mile 162.3, Oldtown, All...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-6 Survey number: HAER MD-31

William House Farm, House, East side of West Wilson Road, Flintstone, Allegany County, MD

William House Farm, House, East side of West Wilson Road, Flintstone, ...

Significance: The dwelling on the William House Farm is significant as a typical example of a hall-parlor plan house of log construction, representative of the type of dwelling associated with farmsteads in eas... More

William House Farm, House, East side of West Wilson Road, Flintstone, Allegany County, MD

William House Farm, House, East side of West Wilson Road, Flintstone, ...

Significance: The dwelling on the William House Farm is significant as a typical example of a hall-parlor plan house of log construction, representative of the type of dwelling associated with farmsteads in eas... More

Cumberland & Pennsylvania Railroad, Wills Creek Bridge, Spanning Wills Creek 587 feet West of Eckhart Junction, Cumberland, Allegany County, MD

Cumberland & Pennsylvania Railroad, Wills Creek Bridge, Spanning Wills...

Significance: The Wills Creek Bridge is located in the Cumberland and Pennsylvania subdivision of the Western Maryland Railway Company. It is a brick arch viaduct of four spans, each 45 feet in length. The ab... More

Waverly Street Bridge, Spanning George's Creek, Westernport, MD, Westernport, Allegany County, MD

Waverly Street Bridge, Spanning George's Creek, Westernport, MD, Weste...

Significance: The Waverly Street Bridge is significant as one of the few remaining bowstring arch-truss bridges in Maryland. The bowstring arch truss was one of the first metal trusses to be widely used in nin... More

Erie Railway, Allegany Division, Bridge 375.41, Genesee River, State Route 19, Belfast, Allegany County, NY

Erie Railway, Allegany Division, Bridge 375.41, Genesee River, State R...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1383 Survey number: HAER NY-43

Fillmore Bridge, Spanning Genesee River at County Road 4, Fillmore, Allegany County, NY

Fillmore Bridge, Spanning Genesee River at County Road 4, Fillmore, Al...

Significance: One of the last remaining lenticular truss bridges in the northeastern United States. The bridge is a pin-connected through lenticular truss built by the Berlin Bridge Company of East Berlin, Con... More

Kelly-Springfield Tire Plant, Power House, 701 Kelly Road, Cumberland, Allegany County, MD

Kelly-Springfield Tire Plant, Power House, 701 Kelly Road, Cumberland,...

Significance: The Kelly-Springfield Tire Plant is a technologically and historically significant industrial complex in Allegany County. The facility was in operation from 1921 until 1987 and served as Kelly-Sp... More

Westernport Public School, West side Hammond Street south of Division Street, Westernport, Allegany County, MD

Westernport Public School, West side Hammond Street south of Division ...

Significance: The Westernport School later known as the Hammond Street School is significant for its role in the education of generations of children from southwestern Allegany County and southeastern Garrett C... More

Ocean Mine No. 1 Complex, Powerhouse & Ventilation Fan, Midland, Allegany County, MD

Ocean Mine No. 1 Complex, Powerhouse & Ventilation Fan, Midland, Alleg...

Significance: The Ocean Mine Number One Ventilation Fan and Powerhouse are among the few structures remaining from what was once the Consolidation Coal Company's Ocean Mine Number One complex. Together they re... More

Ocean Mine No. 1 Complex, Powerhouse & Ventilation Fan, Midland, Allegany County, MD

Ocean Mine No. 1 Complex, Powerhouse & Ventilation Fan, Midland, Alleg...

Significance: The Ocean Mine Number One Ventilation Fan and Powerhouse are among the few structures remaining from what was once the Consolidation Coal Company's Ocean Mine Number One complex. Together they re... More

Ocean Mine No. 1 Complex, Powerhouse & Ventilation Fan, Midland, Allegany County, MD

Ocean Mine No. 1 Complex, Powerhouse & Ventilation Fan, Midland, Alleg...

Significance: The Ocean Mine Number One Ventilation Fan and Powerhouse are among the few structures remaining from what was once the Consolidation Coal Company's Ocean Mine Number One complex. Together they re... More

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, Lock Tender's House at Lock 75, 175.6 miles above tidewater, Cumberland, Allegany County, MD

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, Lock Tender's House at Lock 75, 175.6 miles a...

See also HABS No. DC-147 for list of other C&O Canal structures. Significance: The Lock Tender's House at Lock 75, the last lift lock and house along the canal, is one of three such log houses located at the up... More

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