POINTS OF INTEREST
Many of the old places in Oldtown are now gone with the passing of time & development, but they still are in our hearts & minds. The old Railroad Stationhouse, where my Grandfather, Charles Hartsock once worked & lived at,  the old Luteman  log house that we would walk by & think there were ghosts in it's ruins; the Rickenberg log house that once was a most beautiful  home. Most of the places of business are gone, Lee Haines' Store & Saloon; the old  Cresap Mill, the Lantz Tannery, Luteman's shoe shop, the Young Men's Club, Carder's store, the Hat Shop, Kulp Lumber Company. All gone with  the winds of time...........
But come see what Oldtown once was, the rich memories it holds.
THE MICHAEL CRESAP MUSEUM
THE CARDER STORE AT LOCK 70. IT WAS MOVED TO WHERE THE POWER COMPANY IS ON OPESSA STREET NOW. NOTE THE HIGH BRIDGE  OVER LOCK FOR TRAFFIC. 1905
THE POTOMAC 1407 COMING THROUGH OLDTOWN
THE OLD CRESAP MILL  AT ALUM HILL. SISLER CHILDREN IN FRONT.
STATION HOUSE AT LOWER END OF OLDTOWN. THE FIRST MAN MAY BE MY GRANDFATHER, CHARLES HARTSOCK. IF ANYONE CAN IDENTIFY THESE MEN, PLEASE CONTACT ME.
COMING THROUGH   THE STATION
EASTBOUND DEISEL
EARLY RAIL ROAD WORKERS ON THE B&O
Signal lights at Station house
The old Underpass at the Eastern end of Oldtown is now gone, but it served us kids for decades as a place to put our messages out to the world. Oh what fun we'd have chalking or painting on the old walls, running for our lives when a vehicle would approach, hoping  no one would see that WE were the culprits that wrote a sometimes ornery message. How I miss this "piece of artwork".......... I'll never forget when  Kathy Steckman & I wrote a very cute (we thought) note on that wall, and later we saw one of our friends(whom we wrote the note about) coming down the street with a bucket of  hot water, soap & scrub brush, crying her eyes out, because her father saw the note & made HER go scrub it off the wall. We still laugh till we cry about that.
The Oldtown Toll Bridge, connecting Maryland & West Viriginia.
Stickpile Tunnel,  Green Ridge Station. Once the Western Maryland Railway.
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