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On the fifth floor of the Standard Oil Building windows were open, street noises drifted into the busy executive offices of Western Maryland Railroad Co. In his private office, President Maxwell ...

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Born into slavery on Maryland's Eastern Shore, Tubman escaped slavery and led others to freedom as a "conductor" on the Underground Railroad. Douglass was born near Easton, Maryland. In the years ...

Risk-taking is another quality that defines Maryland, whether it was developing the nation's first steam-powered railway ... Allegany County in western Maryland is home to Rocky Gap State Park ...

The Underground Railroad, a vast network of people who helped fugitive slaves escape to the North and to Canada, was not run by any single organization or person. Rather, it consisted of many ...

CUMBERLAND — Three years after proposing that their rural counties secede from the state, Western Maryland Republicans want ...

The maps were last ... they have been in western parts of the state. Some parts of Garrett County were two weeks ahead of schedule, Melissa Nash, a forester for the Maryland Department of Natural ...

On the Potomac River, Cumberland is a tourist hub, with attractions like the Western Maryland Railway Station and a historic district. The median home value in Cumberland is just $94,100 ...

The North Carolina attraction opened in 1957 with a one-mile ride aboard the No. 12, the only surviving narrow-gauge engine from the East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad. Wade Payne ...