Roughly bounded by C and O Canal, Conococheague Cr., Springfield Ln. ,and W. Frederick St., Williamsport, Maryland. County/parish: Washington.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places October 26, 2001. NRIS 01001184.
416 contributing buildings. 2 contributing sites.Also known as:
Williamsport Historic District is a national historic district inWilliamsport, Washington County, Maryland, United States. The district consists of the historic core of this town. Nearly 20 percent of the buildings in the district date from the late 18th and early 19th centuries. They are generally of log or brick construction until the second quarter of the 19th century. The district includes one of fewer than 10 banking houses still remaining in the US that were constructed during the era of the first National Bank, the Williamsport Banking Mansion, circa 1814. The town grew with the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and railroads, which resulted in prominent late-19th-century Italianate and Queen Anne style buildings for residential and commercial purposes. Slightly less than 60 percent of the buildings date from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/106778566