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
44 Years in a Hunter's Life
Meshach Browning
Abandoned Maryland
Lost Legacies
Cindy Vasko
Abandoned Maryland
Ruin & Restoration
Susan Tatterson
Aerial Fire Apparatus of Maryland
Dick DeVore
Allegany County
Dan Whetzel
Allegany County
Postcard History Series
Albert L. Feldstein
Battle of Folck's Mill
Dick DeVore
Battlefield Angels
The Daughters of Charity Work as Civil War Nurses
James Rada, Jr.
Being Black in Brownsville
Lynn Bowman
Between River and Rail
James Rada, Jr.
Braddock's Gold
Jay Heavner
Braddock's Road
Norman L. Baker
Brewing Beer in Western Maryland Volume 1
James Wolf & Robert Musson
Brewing Beer in Western Maryland Volume 2
James Wolf & Robert Musson
Buses of Allegany County, Maryland
Andrew Sparber
Canawlers
James Rada
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
Official National Park Service Handbook
The Chesapeake & Ohio Canal
Mary H. Rubin
A Christmas Story to Remember!
Dick DeVore
Civil War Era in Cumberland, Maryland and Nearby Keyser, West Virginia
Harold L. Scott
Colored People
Henry Louis Gates,
Cresap's Rifles
Champ Zumbrun
The Cumberland Electric Railway Co. and The Cumberland & Westernport Electric Railway Co.
Andrew Sparber
Cumberland Then & Now
Patrick H. Stakem
Echoes of War Drums
The Civil War in Mountain Maryland
James Rada, Jr.
The Electrification of Allegany County, Maryland
Andrew Sparber
Everyone Counts: The History of African American Enslavement in Allegany County, Maryland
Lynn Bowman
Faces and Places
Cooks Mill, PA
Dick DeVore
Faces and Places
Ellerslie, Maryland
Dick DeVore
Faces and Places
Ellerslie, Maryland II
Dick DeVore
Firefighting in Allegany County, Maryland
Warren W. Jenkins
Forgotten But Not Gone
Gary Clites, Sr.
Fort Cumberland
Volume 1 ⦁ 1754-1757
Lannie Dietle
Fort Cumberland
Volume 2 ⦁ 1758-1786
Lannie Dietle
Frostburg
Tom Robertson
Glass of Cumberland & Lonaconing Maryland
Dale L. Murschell
The Great Cumberland Floods
Disaster in the Queen City
Albert L. Feldstein
Great Fires of Allegany County, Maryland Volume One
Dick DeVore
Handbook of Washington Street Architecture
Rolfe Singerman
Hanging Rock Rebel
Edited by Dan Oates
History of Cumberland, MD
William Harrison Lowdermilk
A History of the Green Ridge State Forest
Champ Zumbrun
Hunter's Moon
Jay Heavner
Last Curtain Call
Linda Harris Sittig
Lock Ready
James Rada, Jr.
Looking Back
True Stories of Mountain Maryland
James Rada, Jr.
Looking Back II
True Stories of Mountain Maryland
James Rada, Jr.
Mount Savage
Amanda Paul
October Mourning
James Rada, Jr.
A Photographic History of Downtown Cumberland, Maryland 1895-2005
Dan Whetzel
A Photographic History of Cumberland, Maryland
Dan Whetzel
A Photographic History of Ridgeley and Carpendale, West Virginia
Gary Clites, Sr.
Ridgeley and Carpendale, West Virginia from 1750
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Secrets of Garrett County
James Rada, Jr.
Secrets of the C&O Canal
James Rada, Jr.
Slippery When Wet: A Murder Mystery
Shelby L. Syckes
Slow Children Playing: On the Way to Band Camp
Shelby L. Syckes
Smoldering Betrayal
James Rada, Jr.
Streetcars of Allegany County, Maryland
Andrew Sparber
Thomas Footer & the Footer Dye Works
Andrew Sparber
Railroading
Along the Baltimore & Ohio Railway From Cumberland to Uniontown
Marci Lynn McGuinness
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in West Virginia
Bob Withers
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in Maryland
David Shackelford
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in West Virginia
Bob Withers
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad's Pittsburgh Division
Bruce Elliott
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
Railroading around Cumberland
Patrick H. Stakem
Tall Pines and Wandering Rivers
Benjamin F. G. Kline, Jr.
Trains
Photography of A. Aubrey Bodine
Jennifer B. Bodine
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
Working on the Western Maryland
Volume I
Wes Morgenstern
Working on the Western Maryland
Volume II
Wes Morgenstern
West Virginia Central and Pittsburgh Railway Company
Sam Griffin
Local Interest
Cycle Maryland
Bryan MacKay
Roadside Geology of Maryland, Delaware and Washington, D.C.
John Means
Roadside Geology of West Virginia
Joseph G. Lebold & Christopher Wilkinson
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