Vale Summit, MD

Vale Summit is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Allegany County, Maryland, United States. The 2010 census counted 139 residents. Previously, however, it was locally known as "Pompey Smash", the origin of which is commonly believed to have come from a slave named Pompey crashing his wagonload of coal. A newcomer can read Vale Summit through the overlap of its older landmarks, surrounding geography, and current places. For a newcomer, Vale Summit comes into focus through those concrete links among its past, landscape, and current routines.