The American Legion is built on a promise from men and women who swore with their lives to defend and protect the United States through military service. The promise begins at enlistment, grows through training and discipline in the U.S. Armed Forces and continues after discharge, as veterans in service to community, state and nation.

 Post 13 currently located at 206 E Harrison Street in Cumberland, Maryland and has been part of the local community for over 100 years. The first proclamation for Post 13 was on June 16th, 1919, where Garland Powell was elected as the first Commander. In the beginning members would regularly meet at different locations including the armory until the first regular meeting location was established at 67 Prospect Square in Cumberland in 1929. In March 1926 Post 13 was first chartered as Legion Home Memorial Post, Inc. By 1933 Post 13 had a set up a social quarter on the third floor of 117 Baltimore Street in Cumberland where they would hold regular meetings, dances and hang out. By 1937 Post 13 formally acknowledged it purchased it's first part of it's new home, where it currently stands today. On October 23rd, 1940, Post 13 purchased the former Lincoln Hotel which was torn down to expand the post. On June 10th, 1973, Post 13 was rechartered as Legion Home of Cumberland, Inc.

 Cumberland is a U.S. city in Allegany County, Maryland. Located on the Potomac River, Cumberland is a regional business and commercial center for Western Maryland and the Potomac Highlands of West Virginia.

Historically Cumberland was known as the "Queen City", as it was once the second largest in the state. Because of its strategic location on what became known as the Cumberland Road through the Appalachians, after the American Revolution it served as a historical outfitting and staging point for westward migrations throughout the first half of the 1800s. In this role, it supported the settlement of the Ohio Country and the lands in that latitude of the Louisiana Purchase. It also became an industrial center, served by major roads, railroads, and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, which connected Cumberland to Washington, D.C. and is now a national historical park. Today, Interstate 68 bisects the town.

Cumberland was named by English colonists after the son of King George II, Prince William, the Duke of Cumberland. It is built on the site of the mid-18th century Fort Cumberland, the starting point for British General Edward Braddock's ill-fated attack on the French stronghold of Fort Duquesne (present-day Pittsburgh) during the French and Indian War, the North American front of the Seven Years' War between the French and the British. This area had been settled for thousands of years by indigenous peoples. The fort was developed along the Great Indian Warpath which tribes used to travel the backcountry.

Cumberland also served as an outpost of Colonel George Washington during the French and Indian War, and his first military headquarters was built here. Washington returned as President of the United States in 1794 to Cumberland to review troops assembled to thwart the Whiskey Rebellion.

During the 19th century, Cumberland was a key road, railroad and canal junction. Cumberland was the terminus, and namesake, of the Cumberland Road (begun in 1811) that extended westward to the Ohio River at Wheeling, West Virginia. This was the first portion of what would be constructed as the National Road, which eventually reached Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. In the 1850s, many black fugitives reached their final stop on the underground railroad beneath the floor of the Emmanuel Episcopal Church. A maze of tunnels beneath and an abolitionist pastor above provided refuge before the final five-mile trip to freedom in Pennsylvania.

The surrounding hillsides were mined for coal and iron ore and harvested for timber that helped supply the Industrial Revolution. The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal had its western terminus here, it was built to improve the movement of goods between the Midwest and Washington, D.C., the eastern terminus. Construction of railroads superseded use of the canal, as trains were faster and could carry more freight. The city developed as a major manufacturing center, with industries in glass, breweries, fabrics, tires, and tinplate.