Photos by RikJimTom : on the map, in Google Earth (KML)

Cacapon Mountain in the distance.

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While it is now commonly called the National Road, because it extends the National Road from Cumberland Maryland, east to the vicinity of Baltimore, the Road from the Baltimore vicinity to Cumberland, MD was technically called The Bank Road. It was called this because Maryland Banks financed it, not the Federal Government The building at the left is featured in Panoramio #5099361.

This is way too high from the level of Sideling Hill Creek to have been an alternate channel. The location is approximate to about 500'. This land was later offered for sale as "valuable coal and iron properties."

The old ticket window is behind the right side of the building, as were the tracks, which led only to the north along Warm Springs Run to the old B&O mainline, now the CSX mainline east-west along the Potomac River.

This rifled cannon dates to 1864. For years it was in Taylor Park, but was moved probably for security reasons to the town Museum.

This is a view from the top of the observation tower at the top of Spruce Knob, Monongahela National Forest, WV.

This streamlet is visible along the footpath to the observation platform surrounding Balanced Rock, in Trough Creek State Park, PA 16657.

This chimney is about all that remains of a firebrick plant from the 1840's. Three sisters, granddaughters of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, signer of the Declaration of Independence for Maryland, owned this property and many square miles to the north and west. Their holdings formed the core of Green Ridge State Forest to the northwest. Though Americans, they all married English nobility, and thence forward lived in England. They were trying to develop the land for induatrial purposes, but the firebrick plant was the only successful part of their venture. The letters ES are visible at the top of the chimney, but the brickmason formed the "S" poorly. The letters stand for Elizabeth Stafford, one of the three sisters.