Cumberland

Cumberland features a downtown mall as the city’s main shopping and dining district, where a brick street is lined with large multistory commercial buildings built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and now occupied by sidewalk cafes, antique stores, boutiques, and art galleries, and it hosts some of the city’s biggest sidewalk festivals and block parties. Known as the Gateway to the West, Cumberland lies in a scenic valley marked by numerous church steeples and mountains, with a range of architectural styles, and it is the starting point for the National Road, the terminus of the C&O Canal, and the beginning of the Great Allegheny Passage. A log cabin believed to be the only remaining structure from the original Fort Cumberland served as then-colonel George Washington’s official headquarters during the French and Indian War.

Cumberland, Maryland · United States