February 21st, 2023 by WCBC Radio

The Cumberland Historic Cemetery Organization will be recognized this week during the regular public meeting of the Allegany County Commissioners. Celebrating it’s 40th year, President Ed Taylor tells WCBC News that the organization began with modest goals back in 1983 but has since developed into an operation dedicated to restoring and building monuments across multiple states…

The major event for last year was a monument unveiling at Green Mount Cemetery for a police officer,  Patrolman August Baker,  killed in the line of duty 115 years ago and laid to rest in a previously unmarked grave; and this year the tributes will include a monument for Keith Call- a victim of an unsolved murder in 1988in Hayes Virginia…

The Cumberland Historic Cemetery Organization is headquartered at 400 S. Allegany Street in Cumberland.