Drive Maryland’s Western Shore Horse Collection. Horses and their mule counterparts have played a significant role in the history of Washington, Allegany, and Garrett counties, the three jurisdictions that comprise Western Maryland. Western Maryland It was through these areas that horse-drawn wagon trains headed west on the National Road and that horses carried George Washington and his soldiers during the French and Indian War. Horses, of course, were a big part of the Civil War and there is a proliferation of equestrian statues at the Antietam Battlefield in Sharpsburg (Washington County).
