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On this site a pedestrian park was constructed to provide access to Hancock's main street from the Western Maryland Rail Trail and to provide a comfortable rest area for bikers and walkers of the Rail Trail. The park was dedicated on April 11, 199…
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1. Big Pool Junction
The Big Pool Train Station was constructed in 1892 to make a connection with the B&O Railroad across the river at Cherry Run, WV. The Western Maryland Railroad was in a boom stage of growth with the 18 miles of rail between H…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19NX_interstate-68-maryland-vietnam-memorial_Hancock-MD.html
Interstate Route 68 is dedicated in recognition and memory of those Marylanders who served in the Vietnam War 1959 - 1975 -
Dedicated August 2, 1991 -
This plaque is donated to the State of Maryland by Chapter 172 Vietnam Veterans of Americ…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15RX_old-mr-flints-home_Hancock-MD.html
George Washington's diary (while he visited Berkley Springs in 1769) states: "Aug. 30 Old Mr. Flint dined with us" and on Sept. 4: "Rid to the Potomac where my horses were. From thence to Mr. Flint's and to the Pennsylvania Line, and returned to d…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15KJ_a-work-of-art_Hancock-MD.html
Looking at the remaining iron railings and graceful arch of the Tonoloway Aqueduct, it is easy to see why canal company officials referred to the eleven aqueducts along the canal as "works of art." Built between 1835 and 1839, Aqueduct 7 carried t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15KI_the-historic-bowles-house_Hancock-MD.html
Built in the 1780's this farm house witnessed the arrival of the C&O Canal in the mid-1830's. Located at the east side of Hancock, the house residents catered to canawlers who passed through Lock 52 and the Tonoloway Aqueduct, selling goods and pr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM58K_fort-coombe_Hancock-MD.html
Fort Coombe, a Maryland stockaded fort of 1755-56 located north of this point. One of the frontier forts during the French and Indian War. The survey of the Mason and Dixon Line during 1763-68 placed it in Pennsylvania instead of Maryland.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM58E_st-thomas-episcopal-church_Hancock-MD.html
Before you, at the top of Church Street, stands St. Thomas Episcopal Church, which became an unintended target of Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's artillery on January 5-6, 1862. Jackson had led his force from Winchester, Virginia to destroy a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM585_gettysburg-campaign_Hancock-MD.html
After stunning victories at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, Virginia, early in May 1863, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee carried the war through Maryland, across the Mason and Dixon Line and into Pennsylvania. His infantry marched north throug…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM57U_the-national-road_Hancock-MD.html
". . . so many happy people, restless in the midst of abundance." —Alexis de Tocqueville, 1840.
Americans are an adventurous people. Frompast to present, they have used feet, horses,wagons, stagecoaches, canals, railroads,bicycles, automo…