| Corriganville, Maryland | |
| Settlement Type: | Census-designated place |
| Pushpin Map: | USA Maryland#USA |
| Pushpin Label Position: | none |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location within the State of Maryland |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Allegany |
| Unit Pref: | Imperial |
| Area Footnotes: | [1] |
| Area Total Km2: | 0.94 |
| Area Land Km2: | 0.94 |
| Area Water Km2: | 0.00 |
| Area Total Sq Mi: | 0.36 |
| Area Land Sq Mi: | 0.36 |
| Area Water Sq Mi: | 0.00 |
| Population As Of: | 2020 |
| Population Total: | 421 |
| Population Density Km2: | 449.79 |
| Population Density Sq Mi: | 1166.20 |
| Timezone: | Eastern (EST) |
| Utc Offset: | -5 |
| Timezone Dst: | EDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -4 |
| Elevation Ft: | 866 |
| Coordinates: | 39.6947°N -78.7972°W |
| Postal Code Type: | ZIP codes |
| Postal Code: | 21524 |
| Blank Name: | FIPS code |
| Blank Info: | 24-19975 |
| Blank1 Name: | GNIS feature ID |
| Blank1 Info: | 2583601 |
Corriganville is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Allegany County, Maryland, United States. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 455.[2] Corriganville is part of the Cumberland, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Industry in the area includes the quarry operated by the Cumberland Cement and Supply Company, which mines the limestone and shale of the Helderberg Group and the Keyser Limestone.[3]
Corriganville lies north of Cumberland at the confluence of Wills Creek and Jennings Run.[4] Maryland Route 36 passes through Corriganville, and Maryland Route 35 heads north from there to Ellerslie.
In 1912, workers excavating a cut for the Western Maryland Railway broke into a partly filled cave along the western slope of Wills Mountain, near Corriganville. A local naturalist, Raymond Armbruster, observed fossil bones among the rocks that had been blasted loose and were being removed from the cut. Armbruster notified paleontologists at the Smithsonian Institution, and James W. Gidley began excavating that same year. The cave later became known as the Cumberland Bone Cave.
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.