books.google.com - Settled on the banks of the Potomac River, Cumberland has watched time and progress stream through since its days as a fort in the colonial wilderness. Ascending the throne as the "Queen of the Alleghenies," the town became an essential transportation and industrial hub throughout the 19th and 20th centuries....http://books.google.com/books/about/Cumberland.html?id=Q1p710B7qmkC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareCumberland