A home for
Deep Creek’s history.

This project brings together Chris Nichols’s interests in Deep Creek history, local stories and maps. The aim is a useful place to explore the region: follow a familiar name, find a source, and make connections between the landscape and the people who shaped it.

Starting with a local partner.

The first collection is a local-history service prepared for Deep Creek Sandwich Shop. Its menu provides the starting points for 16 researched pages about landmarks, people and traditions. Each page credits the shop, links to its current menu and keeps the historical story distinct from the sandwich description.

The proposed exchange.

Chris’s vision is to provide this story service for the shop, with a clearly identified opportunity to introduce visitors to his book and maps. This private draft shows how that could work. It does not announce a signed agreement, a shop endorsement, or a commitment from either party. The shop should review the namesake pairings and presentation before wider sharing.

Editorial work and products.

The history pages link to the evidence behind their claims. The books-and-maps area promotes Chris’s separate products and is labeled as promotion. Readers can explore the history without buying anything. No statement here implies that the shop stocks, sells or endorses a product.

An archive that can grow carefully.

The sandwich collection is the material actually available in this draft. A standalone photograph catalog, historic maps, oral histories and other partner collections are possible future areas, not yet existing sections. Images already used to illustrate stories are credited on those pages. New material would need reliable descriptions, source records and appropriate permission before inclusion.

About Chris.

Chris Nichols creates maps and shares local history about Garrett County and Deep Creek Lake. He is developing Historic Deep Creek Lake with coauthor Katelin Rank. Visit Chris’s website for his wider work.

Names and permissions.

“Historic Deep Creek Lake” is a working title for this concept. It is not presented as an official county archive, historical society or visitor authority. The story pages pair historical writing with individually credited images. Captions distinguish archival photographs, period advertisements, modern views and contextual pictures. Decorative illustrations elsewhere are editorial artwork, not period photographs or exact depictions of historic buildings.