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1949 Map of Cresaptown

Name: 1949 Topographic Map of Cresaptown
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1976
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1976

About this map

The North Branch Potomac River carves a deep valley between the ridges of Knobly Mountain and Haystack Mountain in this 1949 survey. This border region between Maryland and West Virginia is defined by its industrial and transit infrastructure, featuring the Baltimore and Ohio and Western Maryland railroads alongside the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (Abandoned). The settlement at Amcelle and the Cumberland Fair Grounds near Potomac Park show the mid-century development of the Allegany County corridor.

Local history is preserved in scattered landmarks like the Old Furnace Ch and family-named burial sites including Brant Lease Cem and Cecil Cem. From the small community of Fort Ashby in the south to the Cumberland Municipal Airport in the north, the map documents a landscape of narrow agricultural runs like Warrior Run and Patterson Creek that sustained these rural West Virginia and Maryland communities before modern expansion.