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2 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in Frostburg, Maryland

Updated June 19, 2026

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The basement jail cell, with its rare yellow bricks.

Frostburg, Maryland

The Jail in the Gunter Hotel

The antique hotel still has a jail in the basement, though the cockfighting ring is long gone.

Frostburg, Maryland

God's Ark of Safety

A steel skeleton is all that exists of what is supposed to be a replica of Noah's Ark

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LaVale Toll Gate House

Maryland's first (and last standing) toll house on America's first federal road established the state as the "Gateway to the West."

4 miles from Frostburg

Lonaconing Furnace

Lonaconing, Maryland

Lonaconing Furnace

The first blast furnace in the United States that used coal and coke fuel instead of charcoal to make pig iron.

6 miles from Frostburg

One of the many floors of spinning machines

Lonaconing, Maryland

Klotz Throwing Company

A remarkable time capsule of American manufacturing deep in Maryland coal country.

6 miles from Frostburg

Historical signage covering Lefty Grove's life and times

Lonaconing, Maryland

Lefty Grove Memorial Park

A coal town pitcher who became a record-setting legend, then came home to serve

6 miles from Frostburg

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George Washington's Headquarters

This one-room cabin where the young colonel slept during the French and Indian War.

8 miles from Frostburg

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