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population of 10,640.     In other words, they still accounted for 6.5% of the total.
It was five years later in  1875  that blacks laid the cornerstone for their Ebenezer Baptist Church on the west side of Will's Creek, on Cumberland  Street.     Churches,  like  other institutions  were segregated  at  that time,  and by   1877,  Frostburg's  black population also had two places of worship for themselves.    This was a time when outside of these two cities in Allegany County, the only other town in the  county that had  a black congregation was  Westernport. It was also in 1877 that Thomas J. McKaig sold to the black Laboring Sons of Cumberland for $400 the land which by  1892 would become the  Sumner Cemetery where  a cross-section of the  city's  black population would thereafter be buried.     It is noteworthy that of Cumberland's   seventeen  churches   in   1878,   three  were   for  black congregations and were served by regular pastors.    That life was not always  easy  for Allegany County's black population it indicated, however, by the fact that in October of 1907, a lynching of an out-of-town Negro named William Burns took place before a mob of 1,000 for which not even the ringleaders were ever prosecuted.     In fact, this unpunished lynching was allowed to stand as a lesson in "race   control."