Places of Interest in Grantsville, MD

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Long before 1930, thirteen acres of low-lying land in the village of New Germany was flooded and dammed. An earthen d...

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Originally an 1818 stagecoach stop, now serves as a cultural center to showcase the area's arts, crafts and ...

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Things can get a bit confusing in these parts, with so many competing parks (including Big Run and New Germany) and...

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Erected 1813 by David Shriver, Jr., Sup't of the "Cumberland Road" (The National Road). This 80 foot span was the...

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- The Forbes State Forest was named in honor of General John Forbes who, in 1757, ordered the construction of a ...

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Granstville's Main Street, designated today as Alt. Route 40, was once part of the National Road, the country's first...

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- Astride the Casselman River just east of Grantsville stands historic Casselman River Bridge. Originally constr...

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John Nelson Davis for whom Mt. Davis, Pa. is named was an early community leader in Southern Somerset County. He was ...

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General Braddock's 6th camp on the march to Fort Duquesne Saturday and Sunday June 20th and 21st, 1755. Washington wa...

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When the National Road came through here in 1815, this settlement was a half mile away along the old Braddock Road. T...

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I saw the wind blow so hard on Keyser?s Ridge, that it took six men to hold the hair on one man?s head. In the early ...

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Our first national road; fathered by Albert Gallatin. Begun in 1811 at Cumberland, Md.; completed to Wheeling in 1818...

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Founded 1681 by William Penn as a Quaker Commonwealth. Birthplace of The Declaration of Independence and The Constitu...

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New Germany State Park