Resources

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  • 1866 History of Maryland by E. Allen and L. VanBokkelen
  • 1878 History of Cumberland, Maryland by William H. Lowdermilk
  • 1879 Second Annual Report of Owen Riordan, Inspector of Mines, for Allegany and Garrett Counties, for Year Ending December 31st, 1879
  • 1881 Report of Thomas Brown, Inspector of Mines for Allegany and Garrett Counties, for the Year Ending December 31st, 1881
  • 1882 History of Western Maryland by J. Thomas Scharf Volume 1, Volume 2, includes biographical sketches
  • 1888 Report of C.H. Hamill, Inspector of Mines for the Counties of Allegany and Garrett by C. H. Hamill
  • 1891 Cumberland, Maryland by William D. Paisley
  • 1891 Prospectus of the Humbird Land and Improvement Company, Cumberland
  • 1894 The Old Pike - A History of the National Road by Thomas B. Searight
  • 1900 A Century of Growth, or The History of the Church in Western Maryland by Rev. Thomas J Stanton, Volume 1
  • 1903 Leading Events of Maryland History by J. Gambrill and S. Bates
  • 1916 The National Road by Robert Bruce
  • 1920 History of the Methodist Episcopal Church South in Cumberland, Maryland: 1866 to 1920 by John H. Kuhlmann
  • 1928 History and Construction of Fort Cumberland at Cumberland, Marylandof by H. Hume Mathews
  • 1942 Maryland Main and the Eastern Shore by Hulbert Footner
  • 1945 History of St. Paul's English Lutheran Church of Cumberland Maryland, 1794-1944 by Hixon Tracey Bowersox
  • 1976 Arrowhead Mt. Savage School yearbook
  • 1990 Allegany, Maryland, Rural Cemeteries
  • 1996 St. Ignatius (now St. Patrick), Mt. Savage, MD: St. Mary, Cumberland, MD, parishioners, marriages, baptisms, and deaths, 1819-1844
  • 2006 October Mourning by James R. Rada, a novel of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic in Allegany County
  • 2008 Eckhart Mines, The National Road, and the Eckhart Railroad by Patrick H. Stakem
  • 2010 History of the Industrial Revolution In Western Maryland by Patrick H. Stakem
  • 2011 Down the 'Crick: The Georges Creek Valley of Western Maryland by Patrick H. Stakem Volume 1, Volume 2
  • 2019 Transport Options Frontier, the Railroads, Canal, and Roads of Cumberland by Patrick H. Stakem
• 1923 History of Allegany County, Maryland by James W. Thomas and Judge T. J. C. Williams, Volume 2 Biographical Sketches.
  [Volume 1 is not available online, but we have images of the index pages 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8 ]
• USGenWeb Tombstone Project
• FindAGrave
• Chronicling America - Library of Congress free online newspaper collection
• National Register of Historic Places
• Secretary of State
• Frostburg State University Library
• Allegany County Library System
• Allegany County Map Collection
• Bureau of Land Management - land patents
• Historic Map Works
• MapGeeks
• Maps of US - interactive map of Maryland county formation history
• Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
• Genealogical Society of Allegany County, Maryland
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