Michael Cresap House

Frontier home of Captain Michael Cresap, built in 1764. It is the oldest house in Oldtown, Maryland, whose history dates to the 17th century when a Shawnee tribe had village there. Michael’s father, Colonel Thomas Cresap, a famed Western Maryland frontiersman, founded Oldtown in 1741, eight years before Cumberland was first occupied. Michael was a renowned wilderness explorer who expeditions through Western Maryland into the Ohio Valley. The property is one of only 100 structures listed in “Colonial and Historic Homes of Maryland.” The authentic centerpiece of a pre-Revolutionary building in Allegany County.