Accident, Maryland
Posted by Skyeblux , Wednesday, 20 July 2011 09:00
A town in Garret COunty with a population of around 370 whose residents are known as Accidentals! An early settlement procured by Brooke Beall in the 1770s who stumbled upon the area and commissioned a surey of 778acres with the following directive:
"in the center between two bounded white oak trees, standing on the North Side of the South fork of Bear Creek in or near a glade about one Hundred yards from said Run, about one or two Miles above a Lick known by the name of the "Cole Mine Lick", about four miles (6 km) above the mouth of Broad Creek and about one mile (1.6 km) East of a Ridge of the Negroe Mountain."
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