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unusual facts about Crampton's Gap Historic District


Crampton's Gap Historic District

The district extends on the west to the foot of South Mountain, and to the east of Burkittsville, beyond the eastern foot of the mountain.


80th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment

It was active at South mountain and Antietam, encamped at Sharpsburg for one week and marched through Crampton's Gap, Leesburg, Warrenton and Stafford Court House to Fredericksburg, where it participated in the battle.

Henry Crampton

Crampton made twelve separate expeditions over the course of his career to Moorea near Tahiti to study the land snail genus Partula, while years more were spent measuring and cataloguing his specimens.

John Crampton

Squadron Leader John Crampton DFC (21 August 1921 – 12 June 2010) was a British pilot who conducted spy flights into the Soviet Union in the early 1950s.

In the early postwar years, Crampton transitioned from piston-engined bombers to jet fighters.

Map communication model

By the mid-20th century, according to Crampton (2001) "cartographers as Arthur H. Robinson and others had begun to see the map as primarily a communication tool, and so developed a specific model for map communication, the map communication model (MCM)".

Maryland Route 67

Gapland Road heads east to Crampton's Gap, a mountain pass through South Mountain that provides access to Burkittsville in the Middletown Valley.

Roderick N. Matheson

He was mortally wounded at Crampton's Gap during the Battle of South Mountain.

Walter Russell Crampton

Crampton was born in 1877 in Redfern, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, the eldest child of Walter James Crampton and Sarah Phillips.


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