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Accident (ˈæk.sə.dɛnt) is a town in Garrett County, Maryland, United States. The population was 325 at the 2010 census. The town is home to Northern Garrett High School. According to the book ''Labels for Locals'' by Paul Dickson, a person from Accident is called an "Accidental". ==History== Accident, Garrett County, Maryland was one of the early settlements in the far west of Maryland.〔"How did this spot get the name "Accident?" Mary Strauss in ''Flowery Vale: A History of Accident, Maryland'',(Parson, West Virginia: McClain Printing Col, 1986), p. 1, provides an interesting story of axe marks on a tree, and conflicting claims, (【引用サイトリンク】title=A Pictorial History of Accident, Maryland, from the collection of Mary Miller Strauss ) but she has the sequence of events backwards, and it is more likely, given that a number of counties had tracts of land called 'Accident,' that Brooke Beall happened on the land by chance, liked it, and chose the name accordingly.〕 When Lord Baltimore opened up the area he called Monocacy Manor to settlement in the early 1770s, Brooke Beall secured permission to survey . It will never be known for certain how Beall came to choose this particular spot, but the surveyor was given clear instructions where to start. He was to begin "in the center between two bounded white oak trees, standing on the North Side of the South fork of Bear Creek in or near a glade about one Hundred yards from said Run, about one or two Miles above a Lick known by the name of the "Cole Mine Lick", about four miles (6 km) above the mouth of Broad Creek and about one mile (1.6 km) East of a Ridge of the Negro Mountain." John Hanson, Jr., later a delegate to the Continental Congress, and President of the United States in Congress Assembled, on April 14, 1774, surveyed the land, finding that it only contained . For the next twelve years nothing was done with the survey. Revolution intervened, and it was not until February 15, 1786, that the land was granted by means of a patent to William Deakins. The following year the surrounding countryside was surveyed into military lots by Francis Deakins, lots that were meant as compensation for the soldiers who served from Maryland during the War of independence. Each soldier who served for two years received one lot of , officers received four lots of each.〔 Mr. George Deakins was to receive 600 acres of land in Western Maryland as a payment of a debt from King George II of England. Mr. Deakins sent out two corps of engineers, each without knowledge of the other, to survey the best land in this area. Both crews returned and to their surprise, they had both marked the same Oak tree as their starting and returning points. Mr. Deakins chose this plot of ground and had it patented "The Accident Tract". Now called, the Town of Accident! Accident was incorporated in 1916. Scharf, J. Thomas (1882). History of Western Maryland. Philadelphia: Louis A. Everts〕 John Hanson, Jr's original certificate of survey is on line at the Maryland State Archives, among the surveys for Washington County. Kaese Mill was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. The James Drane House was listed in 1985.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Accident, Maryland」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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