Johnson Farm House, Frostburg, Maryland
Johnson Farm House, Frostburg, Maryland by Robert Carlson [ Lens4anEye ] This is one of my earliest encounters with the Johnson Farm House. It had been sitting vacant for a couple of decades when I drove past it in about 1990. The highway is US 40, also named as The National Road and extends all the way across the country to the west coast. The location was on my route between Baltimore and Pittsburgh. That was a trip I would make 3 or 4 times a year to visit family and friend. Most of those trips were in conjunction with holidays; July 4, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Mothers and Fathers day. Interstate Highway 68 parallels the US 40 road and the house could be seen if anyone bothered to look to the side as they sped by. Each time I reached the location just west of Frostburg, I would stop for another set of photographs which recorded the slow-motion slide toward oblivion for this once great house.