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From: "Donnie Nazelrod" <>
Subject: Re: [MDALLEGA] Mt Pleasant
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 14:00:49 -0400
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> It was Frostburg that was originally called Mt Pleasant, not Cumberland.
> A reader of roots web and native of Mt Pleasant/Frostburg...Alice
> Saunders

Govenor Sharpe sent Col. Immes to Wills Creek in 1754 to fortify the
warehouse at Wills Creek. Col. Immes built a fort that he named Mt.
Pleasant. This name stuck until General Braddock increased the
fortifications and changed the name to Fort Cumberland.

One of the first tracts of land patented in that area, by Normand Bruce, was
named "Mt. Pleasant" - this was a part of the property that was laid out as
Cumberland in 1787.

When Frostburg was laid out in 1817, it was also named "Mt. Pleasant", but
had changed to "Frost Town" by 1820 when the first post office opened.

So although neither town was called "Mt. Pleasant" for long Cumberland did
have the appelation first.

Source: "Allegany County - A History" by Stegmaier et al, 1976

Donnie Nazelrod

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