Two Truths and a Lie

Accident, MD

Two of these are true. One we made up. Tap the lie.

1. 1

   Residents of Accident, Maryland are officially called "Accidentals".

2. 2

   Accident's name may come from two surveyors who overlapped claims "by accident": Brooke Beall and William Deakins Jr.

3. 3

   Accident, Maryland was incorporated in 1851 and named after a mill mishap on Engle's Mill Road.