About this sign
The outline drawing above represents the heritage-themed mural to your right. The mural is organized chronologically into sections. Each section is described here, with accompanying historic images..
Prior . . . — — Map (db m252243) HM
About this sign
The outline drawing above represents the heritage-themed mural to your right. The mural is organized chronologically into sections. Each section is described here, with accompanying historic images..
. . . — — Map (db m259330) HM
Top Name of Cumberland Free Public Library changed to Allegany County Library July 1, 1960 Bottom 1798 • First public school in Western Maryland incorporated under Act of 1798 as "Visitors of Allegany County School." 1824 • School name changed to . . . — — Map (db m17676) HM
Downtown Cumberland
The Flood of March 29, 1924 inflicted almost $5 million worth of destruction in the City of Cumberland. Telephone, telegraph, roads and electric wires were washed away. Though not as bad, another flood occurred on May 12th . . . — — Map (db m252248) HM
Fort Cumberland was garrisoned from 1754 to 1765. During this period, there was bickering between Maryland and Virginia as to how the fort should be maintained and whose control it was under.
In early 1756, Colonel Washington favored a small . . . — — Map (db m17708) HM
The Clarysville Inn once stood in front of you to the right. In this tavern, and in a complex of buildings constructed around it, the United States established a general hospital during the Civil War. On March 6, 1862, U.S. soldiers commandeered . . . — — Map (db m37540) HM
The community of Sang Run has a rich history and has been intertwined with the narrative of Garrett County. Sang Run was an active community, supporting a general store, school, church, and water-powered mill that which its remains can still be . . . — — Map (db m275724) HM
Bituminous coal had been discovered in what is now Allegany County before the French and Indian War. Although farmers worked small individual diggings prior to the Nineteenth Century, it would not be until about 1820 that coal obtained some degree . . . — — Map (db m96387) HM
Robert Twigg was the first Twigg to acquire land in what is now Allegany County, Maryland. In 1768 he purchased this land known as "Sink Hole Bottom". On this site, Austin D. Twigg (1863-1941) ran the Twiggtown General Store and Post Office as . . . — — Map (db m144697) HM
On this site in 1851 stood the blacksmith shop operated by Henry August Rasche, then in the employ of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. The B & O line was at the time being extended through Oakland, Allegany County, Maryland, westward into Preston . . . — — Map (db m68878) HM
This collaboration project, in memory of one of baseball's greatest pitchers, began in October 2014 with the formation of "The Lefty Grove Memorial Committee." A labor of hometown love, the park honors Robert Moses "Lefty" Grove — recognizing . . . — — Map (db m139845) HM
Lynching in America. Racial terror lynching between 1865 and 1950 claimed the lives of thousands of African Americans and created a legacy of injustice that can still be felt today. Following the Civil War and the premature end of . . . — — Map (db m236875) HM
The land occupied by Wilderness Voyageurs was once the site of the livery stable for the Riverside Hotel. The house pictured above was the home of Captain Elijah Monroe Friend, grandson of Gabriel Friend, son of John Friend the first white . . . — — Map (db m153156) HM
Situated in the headwaters of the Georges Creek basin, Frostburg was settled in the early 1800's and served as a traveler's . . . — — Map (db m252247) HM
Center Plaque
On October 16, 1794, President George Washington arrived in Cumberland to review about 5,000 troops of the Maryland and Virginia militia gathered here during th Whiskey Rebellion. A few days later, this militia army assembled upon . . . — — Map (db m17456) HM
Wright Butler House
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
c. 1896
— — Map (db m139114) HM
Flooding. In 1996, two devastating floods caused catastrophic damage throughout a four county area of Western Maryland. The town of Westernport, located at the confluence of Georges Creek and the Potomac River, was one of the hardest hit by . . . — — Map (db m33699) HM
Many changes have been made to the landscape on which Fort Cumberland stood. The street behind you was cut from the hillside and the earth removed used by the canal company. the bluff to your left in front of the church once extended on a nearly . . . — — Map (db m18757) HM
Cumberland, the western terminus of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, was the location where the George's Creek coal from western Allegany County was transferred from the short line railroads to canal boats for shipment east. Cumberland was also the . . . — — Map (db m67484) HM
During the Civil War, thousands of United States soldiers were stationed here in Cumberland and Allegany County to guard against raids and incursions by Confederate forces. Located only about 130 miles from the capital at Washington. D.C., and a . . . — — Map (db m1049) HM
The Cumberland is a full scale replica canal boat, measuring approximately 93 feet long and 14.5 feet wide. It was constructed in 1976 as a Bicentennial project the C&O Canal of Cumberland, Maryland, Inc. (COCCM), a non-profit organization . . . — — Map (db m140080) HM
During the Civil War, enormous numbers of sick and wounded soldiers overwhelmed both medical science and available hospitals. Approximately fifteen buildings in Cumberland were pressed into service to care for the maimed and ill. Besides . . . — — Map (db m139091) HM
The City of Cumberland was established on January 20, 1787, by an act of the Maryland State Legislature. Cumberland began its life as a British fort serving notable figures like George Washington, and it quickly grew to become a thriving town, . . . — — Map (db m310786) HM
The City of Cumberland was established on January 20, 1787, by an act of the Maryland State Legislature. Cumberland began its life as a British fort serving notable figures like George Washington, and it quickly grew to become a thriving town, . . . — — Map (db m310787) HM
The City of Cumberland was established on January 20, 1787, by an act of the Maryland State Legislature. Cumberland began its life as a British fort serving notable figures like George Washington, and it quickly grew to become a thriving town, . . . — — Map (db m310789) HM
The City of Cumberland was established on January 20, 1787, by an act of the Maryland State Legislature. Cumberland began its life as a British fort serving notable figures like George Washington, and it quickly grew to become a thriving town, . . . — — Map (db m310790) HM
The City of Cumberland was established on January 20, 1787, by an act of the Maryland State Legislature. Cumberland began its life as a British fort serving notable figures like George Washington, and it quickly grew to become a thriving town, . . . — — Map (db m310792) HM
The City of Cumberland was established on January 20, 1787, by an act of the Maryland State Legislature. Cumberland began its life as a British fort serving notable figures like George Washington, and it quickly grew to become a thriving town, . . . — — Map (db m310793) HM
Delaware, Algonquian, and Shawnee migrated spring through fall in camps on paths worn by migrating game Fur traders followed, then settlers. Garrett County, Maryland was officially established in 1872 from Allegany County, with the town of . . . — — Map (db m275654) HM
On December 4, 1872, following a public vote by the residents of Western Maryland, Governor William Pinkney Whyte issued a proclamation establishing a new county, created out of the western-most portion of Allegany County. The new county was . . . — — Map (db m252255) HM
A company of Confederates, young men from Cumberland, Maryland, Hampshire and Hardy Counties, West Virginia, captured several picket posts, obtained the countersign “Bulls Gap,” rode into the city, captured two commanding Union Generals, Kelly . . . — — Map (db m490) HM
Coal Seam
The Pittsburgh Coal Seam is the thickest and most extensive coal bed in the Appalachian Basin. The Upper Pennsylvanian Pittsburgh coal bed extends over 11,000 square miles through 63 counties. It extends from Allegany County, . . . — — Map (db m182022) HM
Construction
Known as the "Workman Cabin,” this log home was built between 1838 and 1840 by Morgan Workman.
It originally stood three miles
northeast of Loudonville along what was once the old Wooster-Mt.
Vernon Pike & Stage Route—which . . . — — Map (db m166359) HM
Thin black lines indicate changes in relevance. Between each pair of lines entries are ordered geographically but all have the same relevance.
* Inflectional forms of words are their plurals, singulars, and possessives as well as gramatical tenses and similar variations.
