1787 Veatch map of lots west of Fort Cumberland (posted December 2010)
At last, a manageable online version of the 1787 Veatch map of lots west of Fort Cumberland. It is still a large file at 9932KB, but being grayscale rather than color, it is much more usable than the much larger Library of Congress version.
Click here to see the map. For best results, view at 100%.
The Turkey Foot Road near Michael Korns, Sr. farm (Updated December 2010)
Introduction to the new Turkey Foot Road book, with sample images
Somerset County surveyor Mike Beeghley's Grandpa song (posted November 2010)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=n8XWJ6kc0UE
Additional information on the Porters and the Porter-Huff Cemetery (posted November 2010)
The Porters of Barrelville
Ruth Little Palmer, daughter of Maria Catherine Korns and Samuel Trawain Little (posted April 2010)
Ruth Little Palmer, 1906 (2559KB PDF)
Virgil Eben Korns, 1920 (posted March 2010)
Virgil Eben Korns, 1920 "Lucky Bag", US Naval Academy (3262KB)
Wellersburg Lutheran & Reformed Church Records (posted Feb. 2010)
Zion's pre-1904 church records (6750KB)
Emanuel Bosworth Korns (posted Feb. 2010)
Emanuel Bosworth Korns, Scottish Rite Certificate, 1910
A mining town between Barrelville and Wellersburg (posted Feb. 2010)
The town of Pamosa, Maryland
Korns (posted Jan. 2010)
1810 census (posted Jan. 2010)
1810 census sheet, Alleghany Co. District 4, including Arnold's settlement
Jacob Korn property in Maryland (posted Jan. 2010)
Found the location of Jacob Korn's 44-1/4 acre Millstone Hill tract.
Mount Savage & Barrelville Maryland (posted Jan. 2010)
Corriganville, Maryland (posted Jan. 2010)