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Cumberland is an incorporated city and the county seat of Allegany County in Western Maryland, set in a Ridge-and-Valley Appalachian valley where Wills Creek joins the North Branch of the Potomac River.

Cumberland was founded in 1787 and incorporated on January 23, 1815, and English colonists named it for Prince William, the Duke of Cumberland, a son of King George II.

The city is built on the site of Fort Cumberland, the starting point of British General Edward Braddock's ill-fated 1755 expedition against Fort Duquesne during the French and Indian War.

Colonel George Washington had his first military headquarters at Fort Cumberland, and he returned to Cumberland as president in 1794 to review troops assembled against the Whiskey Rebellion.

Cumberland was nicknamed the Queen City because it was once the second-largest city in Maryland after Baltimore.

After the American Revolution, Cumberland served as an outfitting and staging point for westward emigrants heading to the Ohio Country through the first half of the 1800s.

The city was the eastern terminus and namesake of the Cumberland Road, begun in 1811, the first section of the National Road that eventually reached through Ohio and Indiana to Illinois.

Cumberland was the western terminus of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, which linked it to Washington, D.C.; the canal is now the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park, and its towpath runs about 185 miles from Cumberland to the capital.

Cumberland is also the eastern end of the Great Allegheny Passage rail trail to Pittsburgh, making it a midpoint of a combined trail system of more than 300 miles between Washington, D.C., and Pittsburgh.

In the 1850s, fugitives on the Underground Railroad found refuge in tunnels beneath Cumberland's Emmanuel Episcopal Church before the final five-mile trip to freedom in Pennsylvania.