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Local Books

We offer the area's largest selection of local and regional history, including books on railroading and other local interest, as well as locally authored and published books. Here's a list of our most popular titles.

Local & Regional History

$36.95

44 Years in a Hunter's Life

Meshach Browning

$24.99

Abandoned Maryland

Lost Legacies

Cindy Vasko

$25.99

Abandoned Maryland

Ruin & Restoration

Susan Tatterson

$20.00

Aerial Fire Apparatus of Maryland

Dick DeVore

$21.99

Allegany County

Dan Whetzel

$21.99

Allegany County

Postcard History Series

Albert L. Feldstein

$10.00

Battle of Folck's Mill

Dick DeVore

Battlefield Angels James Rada

$19.95

Battlefield Angels

The Daughters of Charity Work as Civil War Nurses

James Rada, Jr.

$19.95

Being Black in Brownsville

Lynn Bowman

Between River and Rail James Rada

$18.95

Between River and Rail

James Rada, Jr.

Braddock's Gold Jay Heavner

$19.95

Braddock's Gold

Jay Heavner

$19.99

Braddock's Road

Norman L. Baker

$21.95

Brewing Beer in Western Maryland Volume 1

James Wolf & Robert Musson

$21.95

Brewing Beer in Western Maryland Volume 2

James Wolf & Robert Musson

$18.00

Buses of Allegany County, Maryland

Andrew Sparber

$18.95

Canawlers

James Rada

$10.95

Chesapeake and Ohio Canal

Official National Park Service Handbook

Chesapeake Canal Mary Rubin

$21.99

The Chesapeake & Ohio Canal

Mary H. Rubin

$10.00

A Christmas Story to Remember!

Dick DeVore

$22.00

Civil War Era in Cumberland, Maryland and Nearby Keyser, West Virginia

Harold L. Scott

$18.00

Colored People

Henry Louis Gates,

Cresap's Rifles Champ Zumbrun

$20.00

Cresap's Rifles

Champ Zumbrun

$21.95

The Cumberland Electric Railway Co. and The Cumberland & Westernport Electric Railway Co.

Andrew Sparber

Cumberland Then & Now Patrick Stakem

$21.99

Cumberland Then & Now

Patrick H. Stakem

$14.95

Echoes of War Drums

The Civil War in Mountain Maryland

James Rada, Jr.

The Electrification of Allegany County Maryland Andrew Sparber

$21.95

The Electrification of Allegany County, Maryland

Andrew Sparber

$19.95

Everyone Counts:  The History of African American Enslavement in Allegany County, Maryland

Lynn Bowman

$12.00

Faces and Places

Cooks Mill, PA

Dick DeVore

Faces and Places Ellerslie, Maryland Dick DeVore

$15.00

Faces and Places 

Ellerslie, Maryland

Dick DeVore

$15.00

Faces and Places

Ellerslie, Maryland II

Dick DeVore

$19.99

Firefighting in Allegany County, Maryland

Warren W. Jenkins

Forgotten But Not Gone Gary Clites

$20.00

Forgotten But Not Gone

Gary Clites, Sr.

$24.95

Fort Cumberland

Volume 1 ⦁ 1754-1757

Lannie Dietle

$24.95

Fort Cumberland

Volume 2 ⦁ 1758-1786

Lannie Dietle

$21.99

Frostburg

Tom Robertson

$35.00

Glass of Cumberland & Lonaconing Maryland

Dale L. Murschell

The Great Cumberland Floods
Disaster in the Queen City
Albert L. Feldstein

$19.99

The Great Cumberland Floods

Disaster in the Queen City

Albert L. Feldstein

$10.00

Great Fires of Allegany County, Maryland Volume One

Dick DeVore

$15.95

Handbook of Washington Street Architecture

Rolfe Singerman

$24.95

Hanging Rock Rebel

Edited by Dan Oates

$36.95

History of Cumberland, MD

William Harrison Lowdermilk

$19.99

A History of the Green Ridge State Forest

Champ Zumbrun

$19.95

Hunter's Moon

Jay Heavner

Last Curtain Call
Linda Harris Sittig

$15.99

Last Curtain Call

Linda Harris Sittig

Lock Ready
James Rada, Jr.

$18.95

Lock Ready

James Rada, Jr.

$14.95

Looking Back

True Stories of Mountain Maryland

James Rada, Jr.

$14.95

Looking Back II

True Stories of Mountain Maryland

James Rada, Jr.

$21.99

Mount Savage

Amanda Paul

$15.95

October Mourning

James Rada, Jr.

A Photographic History of Downtown Cumberland 1895-2005
Dan Whetzel

$23.95

A Photographic History of Downtown Cumberland, Maryland 1895-2005

Dan Whetzel

A Photographic History of Cumberland, Maryland
Dan Whetzel

$23.95

A Photographic History of Cumberland, Maryland

Dan Whetzel

$20.00

A Photographic History of Ridgeley and Carpendale, West Virginia

Gary Clites, Sr.


Ridgeley and Carpendale, West Virginia from 1750
Gary Clites, Sr.

$15.00

Ridgeley and Carpendale, West Virginia from 1750

G

Secrets of Garrett County
James Rada, Jr.

$19.95

Secrets of Garrett County

James Rada, Jr.

Secrets of the C&O Canal
James Rada, Jr.

$19.95

Secrets of the C&O Canal

James Rada, Jr.

$9.99

Slippery When Wet:  A Murder Mystery

Shelby L. Syckes

Slow Children Playing:  On the Way to Band Camp
Shelby L. Syckes

$19.97

Slow Children Playing:  On the Way to Band Camp

Shelby L. Syckes

$19.95

Smoldering Betrayal

James Rada, Jr.

Streetcars of Allegany County, Maryland
Andrew Sparber

$16.99

Streetcars of Allegany County, Maryland

Andrew Sparber

Thomas Footer & the Footer Dye Works
Andrew Sparber

$18.95

Thomas Footer & the Footer Dye Works

Andrew Sparber


Railroading

$21.99

Along the Baltimore & Ohio Railway From Cumberland to Uniontown

Marci Lynn McGuinness

$21.99

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in West Virginia

Bob Withers

$21.99

The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in Maryland

David Shackelford

$21.99

The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in West Virginia

Bob Withers

The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad's Pittsburgh Division
Bruce Elliott

$22.99

The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad's Pittsburgh Division

Bruce Elliott

$21.99

The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway

James E. Casto

Iron Horses & Paintbrushes: My Life as a Railroad Man & Artist
Charles L. Amos with Brook T. Amos

$60.00

Iron Horses & Paintbrushes: My Life as a Railroad Man & Artist

Charles L. Amos with Brook T. Amos

[NO LONGER AVAILABLE]

$21.99

Railroading around Cumberland

Patrick H. Stakem

$20.00

Tall Pines and Wandering Rivers

Benjamin F. G. Kline, Jr.

$29.99

Trains

Photography of A. Aubrey Bodine

Jennifer B. Bodine

$59.99

A Trip:  By Rail in the Shenandoah Valley on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and the Southern Railway

Bob Cohen

The Western Maryland Railway
Anthony Puzzilla

$21.99

The Western Maryland Railway

Anthony Puzzilla

$39.99

Working on the Western Maryland

Volume I

Wes Morgenstern

$39.99

Working on the Western Maryland

Volume II

Wes Morgenstern

$10.00

West Virginia Central and Pittsburgh Railway Company

Sam Griffin


Local Interest

$19.95

Cycle Maryland

Bryan MacKay

$24.00

Roadside Geology of Maryland, Delaware and Washington, D.C.

John Means

Roadside Geology of West Virginia
Joseph G. Lebold & Christopher Wilkinson

$24.00

Roadside Geology of West Virginia

Joseph G. Lebold & Christopher Wilkinson

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