Cumberland, MD: East portal of The Narrows, on U. S. 40 atThis vintage linen postcard captures the east portal of The Narrows at Cumberland, Maryland, where rugged mountains rise on either side of the road carrying historic U. S. Route 40. The Narrows is a dramatic water gap cut through Wills Mountain by Wills Creek, long serving as a natural gateway through the Allegheny Mountains , a passage so important that it helped earn Cumberland its nickname as the Gateway to the West. From roughly the 1930s through

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