Oldtown
Market InsightsOldtown is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Allegany County, Maryland, United States, along the North Branch Potomac River. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 86.It was founded in 18th century colonial times and was initially called "Shawanese Old Town" because it was the site of a Shawnee Amerindian village abandoned about a decade earlier. In later years the explanatory prefix was dropped from the name and the place because known simply as "Oldtown". Oldtown was begun with the building of a trading post along an old Native American trail, the Nemacolin Trail, as traders, especially fur traders pushed through the Cumberland Narrows mountain pass into the Monongahela River valley.In 1741 Thomas Cresap established a trading post at the abandoned village. A few years earlier, Cresap had figured prominently in the Conejohela War, concerning the Conejohela Flats area of the Susquehanna River valley, later York County, Pennsylvania.
