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- From its beginnings as a British fort to its place today as western Maryland's largest city, Cumberland has always lived up to its nickname as a "Queen City." When European settlers first began moving into western Maryland in the 1730s and 1740s, they encountered Native Americans residing between the Potomac and Susquehanna rivers.
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Allegany High School
1887
Fort Hill High School
1936
Calvary Christian Academy (Maryland)
1973
- Cumberland Theatre
1988
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Cumberland is the northeasternmost town in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States, first settled in 1635 and incorporated in 1746. The population was 36,405 at the 2020 census , making it the seventh-largest municipality and the largest town in the state.
Cumberland marks the northeast corner of Rhode Island. It was here that William Blackstone arrived in 1635 (before his friend Roger Williams) as the first white settler in what is now Rhode Island. A well-educated minister and among the first settlers of Boston, he left because of religious intolerance and settled in present-day Lonsdale on the east bank of the river that eventually bore his ...
The Cumberland Brewing Company, which operated on North Centre Street until the late 1950s, was established in 1890. The German Brewing Company started in 1901 on Market Street and operated until 1974 when it closed its doors, marking the end of an era of local beer production.
Aug 29, 2005 · Between Middlesboro, Ky., and Cumberland Gap, Tenn., extending northeast into Virginia, accessible by U.S. 25—E or U.S. 58, visitor center just south of Middlesboro; address: US 25E South P.O. Box 1848 Middlesboro, KY 40965-1848. This park commemorates a vital early phase in the westward movement and the indomitable courage of the first ...
The land was briefly recaptured by the Scots, but the historic county of Cumberland, established by 1177, remained a part of England. Because of its border position, Cumberland was the scene of constant strife and much bloodshed from the Middle Ages until after the union of the English and Scottish crowns in 1603.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Sep 3, 2011 · The date of the formation of the succeeding townships is as follows: Allen, 1766; Newton, 1767; Southampton, 1783; Shippensburg, 1784; Dickinson, 1785; Silvers' Spring, 1787; Frankford, 1795; Mifflin, 1797; North and South Middleton, 1810; Monroe, 1825; Newville, 1828; Hampden, 1845; Upper and Lower Allen, 1849; Middlesex, 1859; Penn, 1859 ...
Pre-Colonial era. Artifacts pointing to civilizations in existence before the 1st century have been found in the Cumberland area. Prior to 1730, before the arrival of the first European settlers, a clan of Native Americans lived at the confluence of Wills Creek and the Potomac River on the site of modern-day Cumberland.
