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Keyser, W.Va.
Dan's Mountain State Park
Cumberland, Md.
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As a small settlement, this area was first known as Paddytown, after Patrick McCarty who founded the first real industry here, an iron furnace. The town changed hands 14 times during the Civil War. It was incorporated in 1874 and renamed Keyser in honor of William Keyser of Baltimore, the first vice president of the B&O Railroad.
Keyser remains an important point in the CSX Railroad system. At Keyser the railroad crosses the Potomac from Maryland into West Virginia where it continues up the river to Jennings Randolph Lake. Keyser is the County Seat of Mineral County, WV and home to Potomac State College of West Virginia University. |
