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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCPM_folcks-mill_Cumberland-MD.html
Late in July 1864, Confederate Gen. John C. McCausland led his two cavalry brigades (about 2,800 men) northward into Pennsylvania and Maryland to capture Chambersburg and Cumberland and either collect a ransom or burn the towns. McCausland burned …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCPE_folcks-mill_Cumberland-MD.html
Here in Evitts Creek Valleyon August 1, 1864,General McCausland's Confederatecavalry, returning after burningChambersburg, was surprised byGeneral Kelley's Union troops fromCumberland. The Confederateswere repulsed and retreated acrossthe Potomac …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCB4_perimeter-of-the-fort_Cumberland-MD.html
You stand upon historic ground within the north wall of Fort Cumberland. Your location (X) is shown on the diagram. Lines of barracks (I), parallel with the street, were to your front and in the rear along the line of white rocks in the street. Th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCB3_alteration-of-the-site_Cumberland-MD.html
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 l…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCAF_this-tablet-marks-the-site-of-old-fort-cumberland_Cumberland-MD.html
Which was built in 1755 by order of the British Government and named in honor of the Duke of Cumberland, Captain General of the British Army. It was the base of military operations of General Edward Braddock and Colonel George Washington in the Fr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCAB_the-old-national-pike_Cumberland-MD.html
The National Pike was also called the National Road (used national funds) or the Cumberland Road (began in Cumberland). Behind you and to the right along the base of the hill, were the storehouses of The Ohio Company. The earliest rails were made …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCA8_our-local-indian-heritage_Cumberland-MD.html
The land west of the Allegheny Mountains was exclusively the Indians until the mid 1700's. The local Indians were part of the Shawanese tribe and a sub-division of the Algonquin Nation-one of the most warlike. With the coming of the white man, mos…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBQ7_folcks-mill_Cumberland-MD.html
Here in Evitts Creek Valleyon August 1, 1864,General McCausland's Confederatecavalry, returning after burningChambersburg, was surprised byGeneral Kelley's Union troops fromCumberland. The Confederateswere repulsed and retreated acrossthe Potomac …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBN1_cumberland-gateway-westward_Cumberland-MD.html
Will's Creek Settlement, later known as Cumberland, served as a major gateway for trade, military campaigns against the French, and settlement beyond the mountains in our growing nation. "The New Storehouses" of the Ohio Company were across the ri…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBN0_palisado-fort-or-stockade_Cumberland-MD.html
Most of the early frontier forts were of the palisado type. Before you is a small sample of this type construction. A palisade is a fence of pales or stakes set firmly in the ground, as for enclosure or defense. The word usage in the 1700's was pa…
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