FROSTBURG  , a-

town of Allegany county, Maryland, U.S.A., it m . W. of Cumberland . Pop . (189o) 3804; (1900) 5274 (J78 foreign-born and 236 negroes); (1910) 6028 . It is served by the Cumberland & Pennsylvania railway and the Cumberland & Westernport electric railway . The town is about 2000 ft. above sea-level on a plateau between the Great Savage and Dams mountains, and its delightful scenery and air have made it attractive as a summer resort . It is the seat of the second state normal school, opened in 1904 . Frostburg is in the midst of the coal region of the state, and is itself almost completely under-mined; it has planing mills and manufactures large quantities of fire-brick . The municipality owns and operates its water-works . Natural gas is piped to Frostburg from the West Virginia fields, 120 M. away . Frostburg was first settled in 1812; was called Mount Pleasant until about 1830, when the present name was substituted in honour of Meshech Frost, one of the town's founders; and was incorporated in 187o .