Campsite 65

The tallest ground on this site's horizon stands 18.3° above level, to the west.

On the March equinox direct sun reaches the pitch at 7:34 am and leaves it at 6:12 pm: 10 h 40 m of it, against 12 h 12 m of daylight on an open horizon.

The families who farmed these ridges buried their dead close to home, and DNR has located and documented more than thirty cemeteries in the forest. The Brinkman-Rine Cemetery on Oldtown Orleans Road has 40 memorials on Find a Grave, with Brinkman, Rine, McCabe, Roby and Twigg among the names; the last burial is reported as Michael McCabe Sr. in 1974. A Methodist Episcopal church may once have stood nearby. Roby Cemetery, on Carroll Road in Roby Hollow, holds about 125 graves. The oldest dated stone reads 1855 and most are from the 1870s; many are fieldstones with no name or date. Its surveyors thought several families from around Green Ridge Station used it. At St. Patrick's in Little Orleans the graves go back to 1815, many of them unmarked graves of Irish canal workers. In 1994 the Baltimore Sun noted that names on the forest's tombstones, McCabe, McKnight and McKusker among them, were still in the local phone book. DNR asks descendants to visit and to coordinate any maintenance with the forest managers, and volunteers from Allegany County have cleared several of the cemeteries.

Beside the Western Maryland line in the Paw Paw Bends stood a village the railroad men called Green Ridge. It grew up around the Merten family's apple-picking operations and the railway's own facilities: a bunkhouse, a waiting shed and the gear for maintaining the tunnel nearby. The surveyors of 1979 were told it had a hotel and about a dozen houses; the Baltimore Sun put it at 15 to 20 families. Orchards along the line shipped apples by train, and the railroad's history lists Green Ridge among the notably large ones. The Merten company's office, a two-story frame building on Merten Avenue, stood opposite the station and was often taken for it. Nearby, Joseph Higgins built a house in 1913 close to the canal, on one of the first poured-concrete foundations in the area, and his household could watch the boats until the canal closed in 1924. The surveyors of Roby Cemetery, in the next hollow, thought families from around the station likely buried their dead there. Bridge and building crews of the railway were still stationed at Green Ridge in camp cars in the late 1920s. When the village emptied is not recorded. The Merten office was being torn down in 1976, and by 1979 the hotel and houses were gone, leaving only foundations.