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Tag: Cumberland MD

old german beer label
June 5, 2017 Appalachian crime / Bootlegging/bootleggers / Maryland / Moonshiners

They all drink Cumberland beer in the same popular barroom

Bartholomew Himmler established Cumberland MD’s first beer brewery ca. 1852. By the time the WPA produced its guide, ‘Cumberland beer’ was 88.

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Lovers Leap, Cumberland MD aerial
May 18, 2016 Folklore / Maryland

Lover’s Leap

Let us leap off the cliff together & end our trouble, said he. She consented, so arm-in-arm they walked to the cliff, where they leaped off.

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interior of cumberland md saloon; no date
July 30, 2013 Food industry / German immigrants / Maryland

Maryland’s Oldest Founding-Family-Owned Restaurant

Geatz’s Restaurant in Cumberland MD has been in the family since 1880, making it the oldest family owned place of its kind in MD.

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western maryland hospital, no date
February 24, 2011 Maryland / Nurses

Graduates of the Western Maryland Hospital Nurses’ Training School, 1911

The building on Baltimore Avenue these women trained in was dedicated in 1892. It seems likely this photograph was taken on the hospital’s grounds.

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