Exploring Small Towns Corriganville & Ellerslie, Maryland: A Scenic Historic Drive Near Cumberland скачать в хорошем качестве

Exploring Small Towns Corriganville & Ellerslie, Maryland: A Scenic Historic Drive Near Cumberland

July 1, 2024 Driving through the small towns of Corriganville, Maryland and Ellerslie, Maryland in Allegany County. Corriganville is part of the Cumberland metropolitan area. Ellerslie borders the state of Pennsylvania. ******************** ***Also in this video, I drive across the border into the small unincorporated village, Neffsville, Pennsylvania. ..."Jacob Shank, a Neffsville pharmacist, introduced "Shank's Compound Flavoring of Vanilla Bean" in 1899 to improve the taste of his medicines. The product is still made today, and Shank's is now the second-largest primary vanilla supplier in North America, as well as supplying other extracts, flavorings and spices. The Shanks family sold the business in 1959, and it is no longer in Neffsville, but many collectors prize their old extract bottles that read "Shank's Extracts - Neffsville, Pa."...." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neffsvi... ******************** As of 2020 the population in Corriganville, MD was 421 and the population of Ellerslie, MD was 651. Corriganville was known for its limestone and is also near Wills Creek and Jennings Run. Information about Corriganville, MD: ..."Between 1912 and 1916, Gidley excavated the Cumberland Bone Cave, where 41 genera of mammals were found, about 16 per cent of which are extinct. Numerous excellent skulls and enough bones to reconstruct skeletons for a number of the species were present. Skeletons of the Pleistocene cave bear and an extinct saber-toothed cat from the Bone Cave are on permanent exhibit in the Ice Age Mammal exhibit at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Many of the fossilized bones date from 200,000 years ago. The Cumberland Bone cave represents one of the finest Pleistocene-era faunas known from eastern North America."... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corriga... https://pastmaps.com/explore/us/maryl... https://korns.org/misc/cumberland_via... https://wvhistoryonview.org/catalog/0... ******************** Information about Ellerslie, Maryland: (Signer of the Constitution) ..."Ellerslie was the birthplace of Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer in 1723 and his home for the first four decades of his life. In 1720 his father had acquired the plantation, then known as Coates Retirement. In 1934 fire destroyed the house in which the signer was born. The existing residence on the property was built around 1740 by his older brother, Daniel Jenifer, who had inherited the estate in 1728, but Daniel of St. Thomas undoubtedly visited it and may have resided in it.".... https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/onlin... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellersl...) https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=176159 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellersl... #maryland #corriganville #ellerslie #allegany #allegheny #alongtheway #travel #historic #constitution #cumberland #limestone #church