McCarty Acre Cemetery
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McCarty Acre Cemetery

Oakland, Garrett County, Maryland, USA – *No GPS coordinates

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  • Intersection of Underwood & Monte Viste Roads
    Oakland, Maryland 21550 United States

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The cemetery is located one mile south of Oakland in the field across Underwood Road from the intersection of Monte Vista Road. A large memorial fieldstone monument is located near the graveyard. The memorial stone was dedicated by the Garrett County Historical Society on October 8, 1950, on the site of the first Methodist church. The inscription on the monument reads:
THE McCARTY ACRE
Site of the First Methodist Church
In The Yough Glades
1831 - 1852
FOUNDED BY ISSAC McCARTY
GCHS
1950

CEMETERY NOTES: Isaac McCarty (1791-1867), founder of Oakland, settled in the Yough Glades (now Oakland) in 1824 and around 1831 the people in the neighborhood, under his leadership, built a log church on his farm, which served until it was torn down in 1852 and part of the timbers were used in the construction of the new Methodist Church in Oakland. The church acre also served as a community graveyard. When selling his farm, Isaac McCarty reserved the land which contains the graves of the pioneer settlers of Oakland. Remains of early pioneers, including the Thayers, Lohrs, Townsends, and others, were brought from the old burial ground on the Isaac McCarty farm and placed in the Oakland Cemetery. (The Glades Star, Garrett County Historical Society, NO. 5, VOL. II, Oakland, Maryland, March 31, 1951, Pg. 69)

It is not clear which graves were not removed and reinterred in the Oakland Cemetery. A 1985 survey of graves in Garrett County documented five burial sites and that "this cemetery was ‘robbed' several years ago and there is still evidence of opened graves, and many markers are missing." (Compiled by Ronn E. Friend, 23 Jan 2022)










The cemetery is located one mile south of Oakland in the field across Underwood Road from the intersection of Monte Vista Road. A large memorial fieldstone monument is located near the graveyard. The memorial stone was dedicated by the Garrett County Historical Society on October 8, 1950, on the site of the first Methodist church. The inscription on the monument reads:
THE McCARTY ACRE
Site of the First Methodist Church
In The Yough Glades
1831 - 1852
FOUNDED BY ISSAC McCARTY
GCHS
1950

CEMETERY NOTES: Isaac McCarty (1791-1867), founder of Oakland, settled in the Yough Glades (now Oakland) in 1824 and around 1831 the people in the neighborhood, under his leadership, built a log church on his farm, which served until it was torn down in 1852 and part of the timbers were used in the construction of the new Methodist Church in Oakland. The church acre also served as a community graveyard. When selling his farm, Isaac McCarty reserved the land which contains the graves of the pioneer settlers of Oakland. Remains of early pioneers, including the Thayers, Lohrs, Townsends, and others, were brought from the old burial ground on the Isaac McCarty farm and placed in the Oakland Cemetery. (The Glades Star, Garrett County Historical Society, NO. 5, VOL. II, Oakland, Maryland, March 31, 1951, Pg. 69)

It is not clear which graves were not removed and reinterred in the Oakland Cemetery. A 1985 survey of graves in Garrett County documented five burial sites and that "this cemetery was ‘robbed' several years ago and there is still evidence of opened graves, and many markers are missing." (Compiled by Ronn E. Friend, 23 Jan 2022)










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