Probably the earliest written records of Deep Creek we have
Meshach Browning was an early backwoodsman, hunter and explorer of the watersheds of the North Branch Potomac and the Youghiogheny rivers. His memoir is called Forty-Four Years of the Life of a Hunter (1859), and he has been celebrated as Maryland�s most...
There was considerable interest in extending the C&O Canal past Cumberland to eventually connect to the Ohio River
F.G. Skinner’s :Reminiscences of an Old Sportsman”
Born in 1835 to Mary Brant, age 20, and Benjamin Tasker, age 38, in Garrett County, MD, Hiram P. Tasker became one of the most conspicuous and interesting citizens of the area around the turn of the 20th Century.
In 1874 Gus Delawder, a prominent local citizen, became the County’s first Fish Commissioner
In 1892, R. T. Browning - grandson of Meshach Browning - became Fish Commissioner.
On March 22, 1922, preliminary surveys began in Garrett County on the waterpower possibilities of the Youghiogheny River.
The first restaurant on Deep Creek was The Inn at the Lakeside Park. Built in 1925 by Pop and Mom Railey, it was a five-bedroom Dutch Colonial and was their home along with the five children they had at the time. Mom and the older children ran the Inn and...
Frank Corliss was the chief surveyor during the time the lake was being built (1923-1925). His work included surveying the complete lake area, establishing the area to be flooded, clearing the lake, establishing the buffer strip and setting monuments to...