Rest stop for workers on the old National Road.

There is an old log cabin located in West Friendship that was used to house some of the workers who built the old National Road through Howard County. The cabin is wood-shingled and is at least 175 years old. The cabin door is very short, only about three and one half feet high. The door was made short to help protect the workers from highway thieves of that time. This made the thieves crouch low to enter, which gave the people inside the chance to hit them over the head.

A mightily haunted place

The Point Lookout State Park is located on a peninsula at the juncture of the Potomac River and the Chesapeake Bay. There have been many ghost stories and ghost sightings at Point Lookout. Park rangers have told first-hand stories about their experiences.

An accident badly burns three men and kills one.

Back in the early 1980's, during construction of what is now a quite popular restaurant, 3 steamfitters were involved in a movie-like, fiery explosion. The restaurant features natural gas lamps inside. The men were working on installing the lamps, and apparently an electrical spark inadvertently ignited what became a small, intensely hot fireball.