The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-10-07

Ginseng Run. 1t operated until 1893.
About 1854 Elijah Friend began to
build dam across the river at the
mouth of Ginseng and a mill race
thence to a saw mill just below the
present bridge, on a 2O-acre tract of
land called "Mill Seat" The dam was
of spruce branches and river stones.
The race was dug by Patrick Brady,
an Irishman. Robert Wakefield con-
tracted to build the saw mill, but he
returned to Virginia and the mill was
never completed.
Schools
The first school at the Sainging
Ground was taught by William Waller
Hoye in his home or in an old cabin
on his farm. This was about 1925. He
was paid by subscription $50 for the
term of three months. Later a man
named Goulding and William Warren
taught this school.
The first school house was a print
tive log structure on Ginseng Run at
the Enlow Cross Roads. Here James
Warren, an Englishman, taught what
was known as the "Sang Run Acad-
envy" for many years. It was in it's day
a large subscription school, attended
by the Dranes, Townshends, Vests
and Fairalls, as well as by the chill
dren of the Sainging Ground.
In 1881, when Allegany county
made its first allotment for schools,
the Sainging Ground school, John Nc
Henry, trustee, received $25, in lieu
of subscriptions for children of the
poor.
The Academy" was discontinued
about 1845 and classes were held in
various log cabins until 1853 when a
church-school house was built, which
served the community until 1883. In
that year "the little red school house"
was built on the Browning farm by the
county. The present two-room school
was built in 1904 on the old Browning
mill site.
Churches
Nearly all of the early settlers at
the Sainging Ground were Methodists.
At an early date they began holding
weekly prayer meetings in private
homes, and in the 1905 "class" of
church members was organized. When
the Academy" was built Sabbath
school was organized there. Meshack
Casteel, school teacher, was one of
its superintendent. Various Circuit
riders" preached occasionally III the
neighborhood, but we have no record
of an organized congregation and reg
ular church services until 1858.
In that year D. H. Friend, "local
preacher" himself, decided a lot on
Ginseng Run to Henry McCabe,
Elijah Friend, Amos Friend, John L.
Browning, Cornelius W. Savage and
Amos W. Savage, trustees, as site
for a Methodist Episcopal church.
During the same year a neat frame
house was constructed and furnished,
which served as church and school
until 1888, when the present modest
country church was built on the same
site and dedicated during the early
weeks of 1884.
The community cemetery was
decided to Richard Friend and J. AL
vim Friend, as trustees. Here, and in
the Hoye graveyard, lie buried the
early settlers of the Sainging Ground
and many of their numerous descend
ants.
POstOffice and Stores
On October II, 1887, the first post
office was established under the name
"Sang Rum" with Elijah Friend the
first postmaster. John johnson was
the first mail carrier; postage was
paid by the persons receiving letters
and constituted the pay of the carrier.
In 1912 Johnson collected, "By postage
this quarter as mail carrier, 1888"
johnson was also the neighborhood