NRHP Reference # 83002919 Added to NRHP 15 September 1983 | Area 51 ha | |
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Location MD 36, MD 657, and Douglas Ave., Church, E. Main and Railroad Sts., Lonaconing, Maryland Architectural style Early Commercial, Late Victorian | ||
The Lonaconing Historic District is a national historic district in Lonaconing, Allegany County, Maryland. It comprises 278 buildings and structures consisting of a variety of 19th and early-20th century commercial, industrial, and residential buildings. These structures identify with the development of Lonaconing as a center of the iron, coal, and silk industries in the George's Creek Valley of Western Maryland. It includes a group of 40 late-19th and early-20th century brick or frame commercial structures, including a hotel, bank, three dry goods stores, and numerous other shops and warehouses, mostly constructed after a fire which devastated downtown in 1881.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
References
Lonaconing Historic District Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA