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Downtown Cumberland
The Flood of March 29, 1924 inflicted almost $5 million worth of destruction in the City of Cumberland. Telephone, telegraph, roads and electric wires were washed away. Though not as bad, another flood occurred on May 12trh of the same year. It was these floods which resulted in the final closure of an already financially troubled Chesapeake and Ohio Canal as a functioning waterway. This scene is looking east on Baltimore Street from the Great Allegheny Passage. |