Cumberland MD Archives - Appalachian History

During the 1920’s & early 1930’s, so many arrests and convictions were made by dry agents that the Allegany County Jail couldn’t hold them all.

Cab Calloway plays Cumberland

Some of America’s most famous entertainers of the 1930s, because they were African-Americans, were barred from staying in Cumberland’s hotels.

Sara Roberta Getty (1880-1973) served as Woman’s Editor for the Cumberland [MD] Daily News from 1924 to 1942. She wrote four books of poetry.

Western Maryland Hospital, the 1st institution of its kind in Allegany County, was erected on Baltimore Avenue to minister to the suffering.

The Dingle was wilderness when Nemacolin, a Delaware chief, & Thomas Cresap, a MD frontiersman, first blazed a trail through here.