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They all drink Cumberland beer in the same popular barroom

Bartholomew Himmler established Cumberland MD’s first beer brewery ca. 1852. By the time the WPA produced its guide, ‘Cumberland beer’ was 88.

May 30, 2017 Ginseng / Maryland / Pioneers

Some notes on Sang Run, MD

Sang Run MD got its name from Gin Seng. At one time it grew here in abundance. There is still some scattered plants to be found.

May 1, 2017 Appalachian celebrities / Automobiles / Maryland

Miss America 1924 drives a Dagmar

Long before the well-endowed Hollywood starlet of the 1950’s, there was a Dagmar car, built from 1922-1926 in Hagerstown, MD by the M. P. Möller Motor Car Company.

narrows park dance hall, allegheny county md

April 26, 2017 Dancing / Love and romance / Maryland

But the nights belonged to youth

The day’s events were only to warm up for the square dance at night. The fiddlers tuning up. The figure caller strutting around.

gravestone reads: 'led the world mining coal'

April 3, 2017 Coal mining / Maryland

The Champion Coal Miner of the World

In 1917, Lawrence B. Finzel was called the champion coal miner of the world, mining an average of 12 tons of coal each day (average was 5).

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