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Cumberland Ladies of the Ku Klux Klan
As with much of the nation, Allegany County was caught up in the Ku Klux Klan fervor which swept America in the early 1920s. Over 1000 Klansman from the Cumberland area went by a special train to Washington D.C. in 1925 for a national Klan rally and march. Hundreds more from this area went by automobile and bus.