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VISITOR INFORMATION - - - - Once a boom town of the coal and iron mining industries, Lonaconing has evolved into a small, quiet, residential community of about a thousand population. Narrow streets and old-fashioned houses grace this incorporated town. Thick forests rise up from the town's 1100 foot elevation to the high point of Dan's Mountan, now boasting a very modern cell-phone tower. The principal in-town industries were a hand-blown glass factory (now entirely gone) and a silk-thread manufacturing operation (building still standing, complete with machinery, but not at present open to the general public). In addition to the Iron Furnace Park, Lonaconing has several small parks along Main Street, a baseball field, and a basket ball court. The "local swimming pool" is at the Dan's Mountain State Park, an outdoor heated swimming pool of considerable size just a few miles up above the town (and staffed by local volunteers) -- also there, rain shelters, picnic facilities, snack bar, and a miniature golf course. Available along Main Street are: A small breakfast/lunch restaurant, a pizza outlet, a meat-market/convenience store, a drugstore, a bank, an evening ice cream shop with a short order menu, an auto repair garage, a post office, and a library. Also, two gift shops are available, and a limited amount of free parking -- both on-street and parking lot. Just beyond city limits on the highway are two convenience shops (one with fuel), and a full-service gas station with auto repair facilities. A quiet town, there presently are no book stores, antique shops, craft shops, community or movie theaters, motels or hotels, bed and breakfast inns, camp grounds, franchise restaurants, or fast food chains in the town, although such services are available in Frostburg or La Vale, approximately a dozen miles away -- addresses can be found through the websites listed in the SEE ALSO section below. Most (not all) Lonaconing businesses are closed in the evenings and on Sundays -- there are several churches, all very welcoming to Sunday visitors. Streets are narrow but most have been recently paved. The town and Iron Furnace Park are well lit at night, and regularly patrolled by both a Lonaconing police officer and the Allegany County Sheriff's Department -- a safe place for late night walkers.
There is a color brochure available.
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In 1973, the Lonaconing Iron Furnace -- also known as the George's Creek Coal and Iron Company Furnace Number One -- was listed as Structure Number 73000886 on the National Register of Historical Places, REF: www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/MD/Allegany/state.html
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Questions? Comments! -- Lonaconing@att.net
George's Creek History Exhibit, P.O.Box 240, Lonaconing, MD 21539