Stories, quotes and anecdotes from Appalachia. 1880s-1950s era.

Category: Maryland

Consigned to live like a brute among savages

On October 1, 1755, while returning home from Fort Cumberland [MD] Trading Post several miles away, white settler Jane Frazier was captured.

“Sugar making time was looked forward to with pleasant anticipation by the young people,” writes George Benson Kuykendall in 1919.

Captain Hager owned extensive tracts of land in the present Washington County, Md. In 1762 he laid out a town, which he named Elizabeth Town.

A steam saw mill was then as much of a sight as a Barnum’s big show now. The next mill of the kind was that of Kreeks, about 1840.

Let us leap off the cliff together & end our trouble, said he. She consented, so arm-in-arm they walked to the cliff, where they leaped off.

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