Savage Mountain: Facts

Facts on topics related to Savage Mountain

on January 13, 1964, a B-52 bomber containing two 24-megaton nuclear weapons crashed on Savage Mountain in Garrett County, Maryland?

the farmhouse at Big Bottom Farm in rural Allegany County, Maryland, is recognized for its architecture inspired by the Greek revival style?

in June 1991, a gasoline tanker attempting to exit from Interstate 68 at Cumberland, Maryland, overturned and set eight houses on fire, causing US$250,000 in damages?

Hoosier tradition holds that Christopher Harrison exiled himself from his native Maryland due to failing to court the future wife of Jérôme Bonaparte successfully?
Judge Henry Stump of Baltimore's circuit court was the only jurist in the history of Maryland to be removed from the bench by the Maryland General Assembly?
Maryland politician Cheryl Kagan worked part-time as a substitute teacher while serving in the Maryland House of Delegates?
Maryland politician George W. Della served both as President of the Maryland Senate and as Potentate of the Boumi Temple of the Shrine?
Maryland politician Karen S. Montgomery has an adult son with autism whom she has referenced in her advocacy for better developmental disability services in the state?
Maryland politician William S. James served in all three branches of state government, as a trial magistrate, Senate President, and State Treasurer?
Maryland's Frederick High School can trace its roots back more than a century, and has won over 35 state championships in various sports since the late 1950s?
Paducah, Kentucky's Lloyd Tilghman Memorial honors a Marylander, and was built by an English immigrant from Boston?
Charles Carroll the Settler's attempts to gain office in colonial Maryland led to all Catholics in the colony losing the right to vote?
Charles Mathias, Jr. is the only Republican from Maryland to be elected to three terms in the United States Senate?

Washington, D.C.'s location as the U.S. capital on the Potomac River was decided by Congress, with passage of the Residence Act of 1790?
Difficult Run is a tributary of the Potomac River in the United States?
Jefferson Pier in Washington, D.C. was a survey monument for the first meridian of the United States, replacing one set by Thomas Jefferson in 1793, and that it was later used as a mooring bollard on the Potomac River?
Piscataway Park was created to prevent development and protect the view across the Potomac River from Mount Vernon?
in 1880 the United States Congress adjourned so members could watch the single scull race on the Potomac River between Charles E. Courtney and Ned Hanlan?
the 1910 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Maryland v. West Virginia established the current boundary between the states of Maryland and West Virginia based on a stone set in a river in 1746?
the Smith Point Light at the mouth of the Potomac River was preceded by four other lighthouses and three lightships at the same site?