Friendsville, MD

Friendsville is a town in Garrett County, Maryland, United States. The 2020 census counted 438 residents. Friendsville is named after its first European settler, John Friend, who came to what is now Garrett County before the American Revolution. Many of Friend's descendants live in Garrett County today, and the headquarters and library of the Friend Family Association are located in Friendsville due to this connection. A newcomer can read Friendsville through the overlap of its older landmarks, surrounding geography, and current places. For a newcomer, Friendsville comes into focus through those concrete links among its past, landscape, and current routines. The Youghiogheny River flows through the town and is renowned by the whitewater kayaking /rafting community as the take-out for the famous Upper Yough run. Friendsville includes the Youghiogheny River.