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Summary

What's now the sleepy unincorporated village of Weverton was once envisoned as an industrial boomtown in the first half of the the 19th Century Just upriver from what was then Berlin, an enterprising B&O Railroad civil engineer named Caspar Wever foresaw a thriving company town on the Potomac similar to Lowell, MA.

This otherwise interesting aerial map of Weverton businesses from 1832-1963 shows inaccuracies, as it incorrectly notes the Weverton Manufacturing Company's cotton mill complex, which isn't visible, and mislabels the site of the Loughbridge mill as the Henderson Steel & File Manufacturing Co.

Teresa Forsyth The stone houses remaining are absolutely beautiful.

Gale Crist I grew up on old Rt 67. Before new Route 67 went through, you could turn directly onto old 67 and come up Weverton hill. It was a dangerous intersection as I recall. I remember tractor/trailers coming past our house. I have no idea how cars passed them as the road was narrow. That had to be in the mid-60s.

Terry Heffner Who knew that a small fortune was buried there.. and was found in 1947 by 3 railroad workers?

Brenton Barger Terry, the Stone House at the bottom of South Mountain Road had been a "bar". (That house is still there) It had been robbed... the culprits found the "money chest" too heavy to make a successful getaway and decided to bury it just on the other side of then 340 which later became Md 180 down on the B&O Railroad property. Track forces were working that area in 1947 when it was supposedly dug up by accident!!

Terry Heffner Brenton Barger, it’s my understanding that every coin in that box was dated pre civil war.

(Washington County Historical Society of Hagerstown MD)