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17 unusual facts about Cumberland County


Cedarville, New Jersey

Cedarville is a census-designated place and unincorporated community located within Lawrence Township, in Cumberland County, New Jersey.

Charles Irving Thornton

His tombstone, located in Cumberland State Forest in Cumberland County, Virginia, is listed on the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places as one of only two gravestones in the world, and the only one in the United States, known to exist with an epitaph by Charles Dickens.

Cumberland County, Kentucky

Cumberland County was the birthplace of Joel Cheek who later made Maxwell House coffee.

Cumberland County, Maine

The video game Trauma Team takes place in Cumberland County in the year 2020, referencing Portland and Portland's Back Cove.

The county is the economic and industrial center of the state, having the resources of the Port of Portland, the Maine Mall, and having corporate headquarters of major companies such as Fairchild Semiconductor, IDEXX Laboratories, Unum, and TD Bank.

Fairton, New Jersey

Fairton is a census-designated place and unincorporated community located within Fairfield Township, in Cumberland County, New Jersey, United States.

Fayetteville Academy

Today, the Fayetteville Academy is the only non-secular private school in Cumberland County.

Good Shepherd Food Bank

In 2010, the Food Bank distributed 2.25 million pounds of food to Cumberland and York counties – a number it expects to increase to three million this year thanks to its new Portland warehouse.

Henry Brainerd McClellan

After studying for the ministry at Williams College, from which he graduated in 1858 aged 17, McClellan moved to Stony Point Mills in Cumberland County, Virginia where he became a schoolteacher.

Historical U.S. Census Totals for Cumberland County, Maine

Like most areas of New England, Cumberland County is (and has been at all times since well before the 20th century) entirely divided into incorporated municipalities.

Kentucky Route 61

Kentucky Route 61 (KY 61) is a 148.006 mile (238.193 km) long Kentucky State Highway extending north from the Tennessee state line in Cumberland County to Columbia in Adair County through to Greensburg in Green County.

Kern Alexander

Samuel Kern Alexander, Jr. was born in Marrowbone, Kentucky in 1939.

Rosenhayn, New Jersey

Rosenhayn is a census-designated place and unincorporated community located within Deerfield Township, in Cumberland County, New Jersey, United States.

Seabrook Farms, New Jersey

Seabrook Farms is a census-designated place and unincorporated community located within Upper Deerfield Township, in Cumberland County, New Jersey, United States.

Sequatchie Valley

The Sequatchie River drains the valley in Tennessee, flowing south to southwest from the southern part of Cumberland County, Tennessee to the Tennessee River near the Alabama border.

Thomas Polk

Polk was born in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania around 1732 to William and Margaret Taylor Polk.

Virginia State Route 45

SR 45 heads northeast as Cartersville Road through the hamlets of Ashby and Whiteville on its way to Hamilton.


Atlantic County Bikeway

Plans call for extending the bikeway to the Cumberland County Line, this section is referred to as bikeway west, and would run between Gaskill Park in Mays Landing and an area near the Buena Vista Campground near Routes 54 and 40 in Buena Vista.

Autryville, North Carolina

Located along the west side of Sampson County along the banks of South River at the Cumberland County, North Carolina line, Autryville is governed by a mayor and a five-member town commission.

Battle of Averasborough

The Battle of Averasborough or The Battle of Averasboro, fought March 16, 1865, in Harnett and Cumberland counties, North Carolina, as part of the Carolinas Campaign of the American Civil War, was a prelude to the climactic Battle of Bentonville, which began three days later.

Battle of Monroe's Crossroads

The Battle of Monroe's Crossroads (also known as the Battle of Fayetteville Road, and colloquially in the North as Kilpatrick's Shirttail Skedaddle) was a battle during the Carolinas Campaign of the American Civil War in Cumberland County, North Carolina (now in Hoke County), on the grounds of the present day Fort Bragg Military Reservation.

Betty Jane Gorin-Smith

Union soldiers had crowded about the Adair County courthouse square in Columbia, as Confederate troops marched northward from Burkesville in Cumberland County by what is now Kentucky Highway 704 and Kentucky Route 61.

Cabot Cove

This would place Cabot Cove 18 to 22 miles northeast of Portland, somewhere between Freeport and Brunswick (placing it in Cumberland County) and off of U.S. Route 1.

Clover Hill Tavern

It was built by Alexander Patteson and his brother Lilburne Patteson as a stagecoach stop for the line between Cumberland County and Lynchburg.

Cumberland County Biker/Hiker Trail

The Cumberland County Biker/Hiker Trail is a Pennsylvania rail trail at Pine Grove Furnace State Park and is almost entirely on the "Old Railroad Bed Road" between Fuller Lake and Laurel Lake.

Grantham, Pennsylvania

Grantham is an unincorporated community in Upper Allen Township, Cumberland County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, best known today for the Christian liberal arts college, Messiah College, whose students make up most of its population.

Hall income tax

Both of the bill's sponsors represent Cumberland County, the location of retirement communities including Fairfield Glade and Lake Tansi.

Irving Female College

Irving Female College, also known as Irving Manor Apartments and Seidle Memorial Hospital, is a historic school complex located in Mechanicsburg in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.

New Jersey Route 55

Route 55 begins at a signalized intersection with Route 47 in the Port Elizabeth section of Maurice River Township, Cumberland County, heading to the north as a two-lane undivided road through wooded areas.

Nova Scotia peninsula

Coal seams are found in the western and central areas of Cumberland County in the Joggins-River Hebert basin and the Springhill basin, along with the Debert basin and the Pictou basin.

Old Broad Street Presbyterian Church and Cemetery

Old Broad Street Presbyterian Church and Cemetery is a historic church on Broad (New Jersey Route 49) and Lawrence Streets in Bridgeton, Cumberland County, New Jersey, United States.

Saint Francis' Satyr

It is a subspecies of N. mitchellii and is only known from a single metapopulation on Fort Bragg military base in Hoke and Cumberland Counties.

Samuel D. Purviance

He was member of the State house of commons in 1798 and 1799; member of the State senate from Cumberland County in 1801; trustee of Fayetteville Academy in 1803; elected as a Federalist to the Eighth Congress (March 4, 1803-March 3, 1805); continued the practice of law in Fayetteville; died on the Red River in 1806, while on an exploring expedition into the West.