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150th Coloring Book

Created by Ms. Kim Durst, this coloring book highlights what life is like in Garrett County.

Download your copy here!

Barn Quilt Tours

The Barn Quilt Tour is available on the Heritage Area App!

Available on Android and Apple devices, visitors and residents can download heritage related tours that takes them on a step by step journey around the county.

Search Garrett Heritage Area in the Google Play Store or iTunes App Store to locate and download for FREE. Directions guide visitors to each stop and are available offline, perfect if your phone drops service.

Leo Beachy Photography

(From the Garrett County Museums website)

Born in 1874 Leo Beachy was a schoolteacher and poet who at the age of thirty-one, turned to photography to express his love of the environment and his community. With dogged persistence, he photographed the hillsides of western Maryland while teaching himself to see the extraordinary beauty of the world around him.

Fighting through a crippling illness Beachy was compelled to reflect on what he saw in the everyday life of his community. Upon his death in 1927 tens of thousands of his glass plate negatives were destroyed. The only ones known to remain locally are the 2887 plates contained in this archive.

The photographs in the collection range from individual studio portraits to beautiful and expansive landscapes. This archive allows the entire community to share the visual, artistic and cultural heritage of Garrett County.