by Will H. Lowdermilk, edited by Ron Wennin. Hardbound, 320 pages, 6" x 9". Special 250th anniversary edition with 8 illustrations and maps. Originally printed in 1878 as History of Cumberland, Maryland. Beginning with the earliest written and oral history of the region in the early 1700's and continuing with the earliest white man's activity at Will's Town in the mid 1700's this book takes you through Washington's capitulation at Fort Necessity and the building of Fort Cumberland.