Campsite 82

The tallest ground on this site's horizon stands 22.9° above level, to the east.

On the March equinox direct sun reaches the pitch at 9:02 am and leaves it at 6:54 pm: 9 h 54 m of it, against 12 h 12 m of daylight on an open horizon.

Little Orleans sits where Fifteen Mile Creek meets the Potomac, at a ford the old road from Hancock to Oldtown used before 1750. In 1808 Leonard Bevans gave an acre and a quarter to the Diocese of Baltimore 'for the better convenience and advantage of the Roman Catholics residing in the neighborhood of Fifteen Mile Creek', and a log church went up by the creek; the earliest dated grave is Ignatius Bevans's, 1815. When the canal reached the creek, work stalled here from 1836 to 1839, and Irish canal workers joined the congregation; many of them lie in unmarked graves around the brick St. Patrick's Church, which has a shamrock carved above its door. In 1839 the riots that ran along the canal broke out at Little Orleans, and a cavalry company came from Hagerstown to stop them. A canal warehouse of about 1840 used a beam and pulley to lift cargo off the boats. In 1905 it was moved about 100 yards for the Western Maryland Railway, and from 1906 Charles and Harry Callan ran it as the store and post office for two generations; Charles Callan's Queen Anne house went up about the same time. Later it was Bill's Place. A Methodist congregation built a log church in 1868, and a one-room school stood on Oldtown Road before 1881. In 1975 the store's owner, William Schoenadel, told the Cumberland News that his busiest week of the year was deer season.

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.