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1949 Map of Bittinger

Name: 1949 Topographic Map of Bittinger
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1949
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1949

About this map

Meadow Mountain dominates this Maryland landscape, serving as a high-altitude divide between the Casselman River headwaters and the complex drainage of the Savage River State Forest. In the late 1940s, the rural community of Bittinger and the small settlement at North Glade served as local hubs, connected by a network of mountain roads that reached toward isolated family-named peaks like Browning Bear Hill and Contrary Knob.

Genealogists and local historians will find significant detail in the placement of the Meadow Mountain Ch, Meadow Mountain Mission, and several schoolhouses, including the Bear Hill Sch and Dry Run Sch. The presence of the Bittinger Fire Tower and the Savage River Damsite suggests a period of transition in land management and infrastructure, while the Baltimore and Ohio line skirts the southern edge, linking this high plateau to the regional industrial economy.