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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2NS_gettysburg-campaign_Oakland-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/HM2N5_fort-alice_Oakland-MD.html
On April 26, 1863, during the Confederate occupation of Oakland, a detachment of Confederate Capt. John H. McNeill's partisan rangers attacked the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad bridge here over the Youghiogheny River. They were part of a larger grou…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2MW_you-were-gone-before-we-knew-it_Oakland-MD.html
No long farewell embraces,No time to say goodbye,You were gone before we knew it.And no matter how we try,Our tears can't build a stairway,Nor our memories a lane,That reaches up to Heaven,To bring you home again.So with each day's sunrise,Eac…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2MM_charles-friends-home_Oakland-MD.html
George Washington stopped here Sept. 26, 1784 on his trip to determine a feasible passage between the Potomac and the Ohio for a canal or easy portage between these rivers as a passage to western territory.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2M5_grantsville_Grantsville-MD.html
When the National Road came through here in 1815, this settlement was a half mile away along the old Braddock Road. This "New Grantsville" developed just west of the Casselman Bridge, completed a few years earlier. About a dozen buildings were mov…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2L2_preston-county-maryland_Oakland-MD.html
Preston County. Formed from Monongalia in 1818 and named for James Preston, 13th governor of Virginia. here is model Federal homestead project, sponsored by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President.
Maryland…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2KS_cleveland-cottage-and-site-of-deer-park-hotel_Oakland-MD.html
(1 mile south.) The hotel was built by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, opened July 4, 1873, and operated until 1829. Dismantled 1942. President and Mrs. Grover Cleveland spent their honeymoon at the cottage in June, 1886.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2K7_cleveland-cottage_Oakland-MD.html
President Grover Cleveland and his bride, the former Frances Folsom, arrived here the day following their White House wedding on June 2, 1886. They spent their honeymoon at this Deer Park Hotel cottage.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2JV_james-cardinal-gibbons_Oakland-MD.html
It was here that Archbishop James Gibbons of Baltimore was notified personally by the Papal Nuncio in 1886 that he had been made a Cardinal by Pope Leo XIII; only the second appointment in the history of the United States of America.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2JO_the-glades-hotel_Oakland-MD.html
Facing the railroad tracks directly in front of you was the Glades Hotel. Deriving its name from the nearby area called "Youghiogheny Glades," the Glades Hotel was built in the mid-1850's by Perry Lyle directly across the tracks from the 1851 Oakl…