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Muddy Creek Falls is Visited By the "Vagabonds"
Muddy Creek Falls is a local landmark that had some famous visitors. Picture it – a nature-loving President takes a spur-of-the moment getaway to rendezvous with three of the most powerful industrialists in the Western world at a campsite in the mountains of Western Maryland, where they ride horses, shoot rifles, chop wood, and slu...
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Meshach Browning: Local Legend of the Deep Creek Area
“The country abounded with deer, bears, panthers, wolves, wildcats, catamounts, wild turkeys, foxes, rabbits, pheasants, partridges, wild bees, and in all the streams trout without number. The whole face of the country was like a beautiful sheet of wallpaper, variegated with all shades of color.” Forty –four Years of th...
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Garrett County's History of Hosting Vacationers
Garrett County’s cool summers, crisp mountain air and breathtaking scenery have lured visitors to the area for over 150 years. Long before Deep Creek Lake or Wisp Resort were even a thought, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad transported wealthy summer patrons out of the city heat to the grand hotels and elaborate summer cottage...
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Deep Creek Lake Celebrates 91 Years
Betsy Spiker Holcomb, Deep Creek Lake’s Favorite Realtor
Speed boat mode!!
Deep Creek Lake Celebrates 91 Years. Deep Creek Lake is coming up on its 91st anniversary of existence! Maryland’s largest freshwater lake is loved by many and has an interesting history. Deep Creek Lake encompasses about 3900 acr...
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Drane House-Garrett County’s Past
Betsy Spiker Holcomb, Deep Creek Lake’s Favorite Realtor
The Drane House, Accident Maryland
The Drane House Garrett County’s Past. I took a ride on an unusually warm winter day just a few miles outside of Deep Creek Lake to the historical Drane House in sleepy Accident, Maryland. Garrett County’s past is vast a...
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Einstein visits Deep Creek Lake Maryland in 1946
Einstein visits Deep Creek Lake Maryland in 1946
Deep Creek Lake had a brief relationship with one of the world’s most incredible minds in September, 1946. Einstein has been associated with the making of the atomic bomb, something that he indeed had come up with in theory, but did not implement as a war weapon; he wa...
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Casselman River Bridge State Park
Casselman River Bridge State Park
Casselman River Bridge State Park is a 4-acre parcel located east of Grantsville in Garrett County on U.S. Route 40. It is a popular area for fly fishermen, photographers, and history enthusiasts. When the 80-foot span was erected in 1813, it was the longest single spa...
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Greetings from Deep Creek Lake-Festival of Trees
Greetings from Deep Creek Lake-Festival of Trees. GarrettCounty is home to some very talented artisans. One of these individuals is local Luthier Roger Skipper, who builds amazing first class guitars, violins, mandolins, banjos, ukuleles, dulcimers, dobros, and stand up basses. Anyone who plays a string instrument will...
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Greetings from Deep Creek Lake-Winter-Veterans Day-Real Estate
Greetings from Deep Creek Lake-Winter-Veterans Day-Real Estate . There are very few things we can predict in life and weather would certainly be one of those! Our temperatures here have been rising and plummeting from day to day, which is pretty typical for this time of year. I know many of us would just as well have sn...
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Greetings from Deep Creek Lake-Swallow Falls-Moonshadow Cafe-Halloween
Weekly updates by Betsy Spiker Holcomb of Taylor-Made Vacations and Sales, Deep Creek Lake. As you already know, I never get tired of singing the praises of Swallow Falls State Park. This weekend we did the loop hike and met some really fun visitors from Baltimore and Northern Virginia. Even after the damaging “Sandy” s...
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