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Cumberland (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 39 39 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 39.6500 decimal degrees |
| Long: 078 45 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -78.7500 decimal degrees |
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Note: Located in valley at entrance to Cumberland Narrows, natural gateway through Appalachians to Ohio Valley; trading post established here by Ohio Company in 1750; developed as coal-mining center when canal & railroad arrived. |
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| Cumberland (preferred,C,V)
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| Will's Creek (H,V)
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............ | name used until 1760s |
| Fort Cumberland (H,V)
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............ | name of fort built on the site in 1754 |
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| inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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settled in 1750, incorporated in 1815 |
| city (C) |
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| county seat (C) |
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since 1789 |
| mining center (C) |
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| manufacturing center (C) |
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for rubber, paper, glass, textiles & railroad equipment |
| transportation center (C) |
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was eastern terminus for Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, & Baltimore & Ohio Railroad passed through in 1842 |
| political center (H) |
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was headquarters for George Washington & Braddock in French & Indian Wars |
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