Lonaconing Historic District Explained

Lonaconing Historic District
Nrhp Type:hd
Nocat:yes
Location:MD 36, MD 657, and Douglas Ave., Church, E. Main and Railroad Sts., Lonaconing, Maryland
Coordinates:39.5697°N -78.9792°W
Architecture:Early Commercial, Late Victorian
Added:September 15, 1983
Refnum:83002919

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.[1]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Registration: Lonaconing Historic District. October 1981. 2016-01-01 . Mark R. Edwards and Ellen K. Coxe . Maryland Historical Trust.